Competency #5: Evaluating Existing Curriculum

Summary

While a major part of this class is designing a thorough document for a class you might teach, it is important to be aware of existing curriculum, understanding what you can adapt or adopt, and not reinventing the wheel to generate brand new curriculum when things are out there for your use.

For this activity I would like you to so some Internet research to find a published curriculum that you feel supports the development of the course you have been planning/describing.  I hesitate to give examples of what I am looking for because often that becomes the only things many students consider.  I also hesitate to give examples because I know that many of you are already working with one or more.  If you are already using a specific curriculum in a specific course that you are teaching it is perfectly acceptable to refer to that in this deliverable.  However, you may find benefit by looking again at additional resources beyond that one curriculum you use.

Create a summary report providing a description and key ideas/advantages that would be useful to others in this course.  I encourage you to use the MANIC technique for organizing this.

• What do you think is the MOST important aspect of this particular curriculum
• Something you AGREE with in the curriculum (what do you like about it)
• Something you do NOT agree with in the curriculum (what do you NOT like about it)
• Something you found INTERESTING about this curriculum in what you saw about it
• Something you found CONFUSING about this curriculum in what you saw about it

I will ask that you complete this Google Form to provide some information about this curriculum.

Evaluation

• Please submit a single document containing all of your responses to the questions posed above.
  • The deadline for this is no later than Sunday, July 20
• This is evaluated as a competency demo.
• Each question will be evaluated on a scale of 0-4, and the entire set assigned a combined grade that will not necessarily be the mathematical average of those scores.