Curriculum Design & Development Flashcards
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Which document typically outlines the specific learning objectives, instructional strategies, resources, and assessments for a unit of study?
Answer: Unit plan
A unit plan provides a detailed roadmap for teaching a specific unit — it includes learning objectives, instructional approaches, materials, activities, and assessments aligned to standards.
Curriculum mapping primarily helps teachers to:
Answer: Track and align what is being taught across classrooms, grades, and subjects
Curriculum mapping is a process for documenting and reviewing what is actually being taught across classrooms, grades, and subjects to identify alignment, gaps, and redundancies.
Which approach to curriculum integration combines two or more subjects around a common theme or problem?
Answer: Multidisciplinary integration
Multidisciplinary (or interdisciplinary) integration organizes curriculum around a common theme, issue, or project that draws meaningfully from two or more subject areas.
A curriculum that is intentionally revisited and deepened at increasing levels of complexity as students progress is organized by which principle?
Answer: Spiral curriculum
The spiral curriculum, developed by Jerome Bruner, revisits key concepts repeatedly over time, with each encounter adding greater depth and complexity — building on prior knowledge progressively.
The formal curriculum refers to:
Answer: The officially documented, intended curriculum as mandated by authorities
The formal curriculum is the officially documented, government-mandated or school-approved curriculum — the written standards, syllabi, and programs of study that teachers are required to follow.
Which principle of curriculum design ensures that important concepts are taught and reinforced multiple times across a course?
Answer: Continuity
Continuity refers to the deliberate repetition and reinforcement of key curriculum elements — ensuring that important concepts, skills, and values are revisited and reinforced over time.