"Curriculum Development"

             

       Before students even enter a classroom, the instructor needs to complete the foundational work of education: curriculum development.This is often done in collaboration with numerous other educational professionals, including other teachers, administrators, and researchers.                      The curriculum is the skeleton that holds up the lessons in the classroom; it is the map by which students navigate their educational travels.The curriculum outlines the materials, the benchmarks, and the assessments used each and every day in the classroom, and as such, needs to be developed in a highly-structured way.    

              The goals of the curriculum need to be established; this part of the process is most often done with the insight of other professionals and extensive outside research. Once the broad-based goals are established, the objectives are then created. These are much more specific, and provide detailed measurements of what students will be able to do after successfully completing the curriculum.