Course Description
Focuses on equity-oriented curriculum planning based on the interests and concerns of middle grades learners (4th-8th grades), as well as the social conditions that affect their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development.
Athena Title
Equity-Oriented Curr Planning
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDMG 7080E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will be able to: - Describe the foundations of curriculum theory. - Articulate how the predominant, colonized curriculum excludes the history, contributions, accomplishments, and ideas of people who have been historically marginalized. - Analyze the relationships between and among teachers, young adolescent learners, and curriculum. - Apply a variety of curriculum planning frameworks. - Evaluate and determine a plan for addressing key curricular and assessment issues at the school level, the team level, and/or the classroom level. - Evaluate the implications for curriculum and assessment when teachers are positioned as curriculum designers.
Topical Outline
In relation to middle grades education, grades 4-8: - Curriculum theory - Foundations of curriculum and assessment - Types of curriculum (e.g., progressive, neoliberal, knowledge-centered, teacher-centered, student-centered, society-centered) - Curriculum and justice - Curriculum models - Curriculum planning frameworks - Teachers as curriculum and assessment developers