Curriculum Development and Design

3 credits · Graduate

Curriculum Development and Design’s central challenge is to create curriculum that expresses your philosophy and knowledge of curriculum and teaching. Using the practical and conceptual tools that you have learned in your coursework and your experience in the field, you will design a unit for your students. The unit will teach significant conceptual understandings and skills while supporting students’ academic language development as well as other needs and interests. We will draw on Wiggins and McTighe’s model of “backward design” to guide us through this process.