Familiarize yourself with these elements. Examples are provided
in this module's Teaching Guide. The Sample Teaching Guide will
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Switch back and forth between the examples and these descriptions.
- Aim: one sentence (more or less) description of
overall purpose of curriculum, including audience and the topic
- Rationale: paragraph describing why aim is worth
achieving. This section would include assessment of needs.
- Goals and objectives: list of the learning outcomes expected
from participation in the curriculum. This section includes a
discussion of how the curriculum supports national, state, and
local standards.
- Audience and pre-requisites: describes who the
curriculum is for and the prior knowledge, skills, and attitudes
of those learners likely to be successful with the curriculum.
- Description of subject-matter: designation of
what area of content, facts, arena of endeavor, that the curriculum
deals with. (This is a further elaboration of the "topic"
description in the Aim.)
- Instructional plan: describes the activities the
learners are going to engage in, and the sequence of those activities.
Also describes what the TEACHER is to do in order to facilitate
those activities. (This is like the traditional "lesson plan"
except for a curriculum it may include more than one lesson.)
- Materials: lists materials necessary for successful
teaching of the curriculum. Includes a list of web pages. Often,
the web site will NOT be the only materials needed by the students.
They may need books, tables, paper, chalkboards, calculators,
and other tools. You should spell these additional materials out
in your teaching guide.
Also includes the actual materials (worksheets and web pages)
prepared by the curriculum developer, any special requirements
for classroom setup and supplies, and a list of any specific hardware
and software requirements.
- Plans for assessment and evaluation: includes
plan for assessing learning and evaluating the curriculum as a
whole. May include description of a model project, sample exam
questions, or other elements of assessment. Also should
include plan for evaluating the curriculum as a whole, including
feedback from learners.
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