Curriculum Development & Design (USF)

Curriculum Development and Design is the capstone course for the Masters of Arts in Teaching. Its central challenge is to create curriculum that expresses your philosophy and knowledge of curriculum and teaching. Using the practical and conceptual tools that you have learned throughout your coursework and your experience in the field, you will design a unit for your students. The unit will teach significant conceptual understandings and skills while supporting students’ academic language development as well as other needs and interests. We will draw on Wiggins and McTighe’s model of “backward design” to guide us through this process.