ESE-5440: Curriculum Design

Designing curriculum is an extremely creative process, filled with dilemmas, excitement, and anxiety. Crafting what people do for an extended period of time, deciding what they need to learn, how, and when is a political, philosophical, and theoretical experience. It’s demanding, time-consuming, and rewarding. You will have opportunities to craft an original 1-month curriculum for the context in which you plan to teach and for a practicing science teacher who has requested assistance in the development of a unit they are not satisfied with, and to help each other enhance the development of each other’s curriculum under development. In particular, we will experience first-hand and theoretically ideas like constructivism, experiential learning, authentic learning, problem-based (inquiry-based) curriculum. I think of curriculum designers as jazz composers. We create frameworks and directions in which our students are invited to follow and are encouraged to improvise to meet our learning goals. If we’re good composers, we will know how to greet our fellow musicians in order to enrich our music in unanticipated ways. I look forward to creating for you and with you opportunities to think critically and creatively about how to design powerful science curriculum.
Min. Credits: 3.0
Credit Basis: Semester credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
Method(s): Classroom
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability

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ESE-5440: Curriculum Design