Curriculum Development

Essential questions development is the process of writing open-ended questions that guide a unit of study toward its core ideas.

Cross curricular skills planning is the practice of identifying abilities that students can practice in more than one subject, then

Subject area curriculum planning is the work of deciding what students should learn in a single discipline, such as math,

Interdisciplinary curriculum design is an approach in which teachers organize learning around a shared question, theme or problem that draws

Curriculum integration models are planning approaches that link separate school subjects around shared themes, problems, or skills so students see

Curriculum coherence describes how well the parts of a school’s learning plan fit together, so that lessons, grades and subjects

Horizontal curriculum alignment is the practice of making sure that teachers working at the same grade level or course level

Vertical curriculum alignment is the practice of arranging what students learn so that each grade builds directly on the one

Curriculum articulation is the planned connection between what students learn in one grade, course or school and what they learn

Competency statements are short, specific descriptions of what a learner should be able to do after a stretch of instruction.