| Course ID: | EDMG 7080E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Equity-Oriented Curriculum Planning in the Middle Grades (4-8) |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | Equity Oriented Curr Planning |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EDMG 7080 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |