Assignment:
Write an essay discussing the basics of curriculum design and how you have seen it used in your school (both positives and negatives are acceptable). Support your discussion with a minimum of two articles; one from each of the Websites below. Also, use both of your textbooks to support your position. Include APA citations for all resources used to substantiate your stance in the paper. Go to ProQuest Central and/or Academic Search Premier. They are the top databases listed on this page https://sherman.library.nova.edu/e-library/index.php? action=subject&col=n&cat=gen. You may also use ERIC and/or Education Source. They are listed at https://sherman.library.nova.edu/e-library/index.php? action=subject&col=n&cat=edu Search for articles about curriculum design.
Select one article from one of these sites for this week's assignment on curriculum design. Go to the newsletter Web page at the US Dept of Education Website: https://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/index.html Examine the different education newsletters available to subscribe to. These are listservs and they will send to your via e-Mail the newsletters on a weekly, monthly, etc. basis. (Just a word of caution - you may be tempted to subscribe to most of them. They are all wonderful, but if you do not use discretion, your mailbox will be constantly inundated with newsletters.
Most, if no tall of these are archived. Look at the archived articles and select one. Before you leave this site, click on the "Teachers" link at the top of the Newsletter Web page. There is a wonderful database of lesson plans available here under "Teaching Resources" which will be useful in writing next assignment. Bookmark it for future reference! Take your time and browse this Website thoroughly. There is a wealth of information to be had here.