The Elements of Education for Curriculum Designers

Written for utility, clarity, and practical value, The Elements of Education for Curriculum Designers provides indispensable professional development for educators working in a wide range of fields - from teachers and school leaders to educational publishers and instructional designers.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Advance Organizers 2. Aesthetics 3. Alignment 4. Background Knowledge 5. Backward Design 6. Breadth vs. Depth 7. Capstones 8. Case Studies 9. Content vs. Skills 10. Course Guides 11. Crosswalks 12. Curriculum Assessment 13. Curriculum Maps 14. Curriculum vs. Program 15. Development Cycle 16. Enacted vs. Intended vs. Assessed 17. Essential Questions 18. Five Hat Racks 19. Flexibility Tradeoff 20. Framing 21. Grain Size 22. Inclusivity 23. Innovator's Dilemma 24. Interdisciplinarity 25. Iteration 26. Labeling Systems 27. Learning Objectives 28. Learning Outcomes 29. Learning Progressions 30. Learning Tasks 31. Levels 32. Magician's Code 33. Mental Models 34. Minimalism 35. Modularity 36. Propositional Density 37. Proximity 38. Rigor 39. Scalability 40. Specialization 41. Spiral Curriculum 42. Stakeholder Assets 43. Storytelling 44. Student-Facing vs. Teacher-Facing 45. Student Work Samples 46. Subject-Matter Experts 47. Templates 48. Textbooks 49. Threshold Concepts 50. Usability vs. Learnability