Identify and discuss the significance of the six principles of effective curriculum design.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Ans: Response should include:
• Big ideas: major ideas, concepts, or principles that serve as anchors for additional or more information
• Conspicuous strategies or useful steps for accomplishing a goal or task should be provided to students
• Mediated scaffolding: Instructional guidance given to students as they acquire new information. This guidance may be provided by teachers, peers, materials, or tasks.
• Strategic instruction: The carefully controlled combination of what students already know with what they need to learn so that the relationship between these two elements is clear and the instruction results in knowledge
• Judicious review: Structured opportunities for the students to recall or apply previously taught information
• Primed background knowledge: The curriculum takes advantage of students’ previous knowledge. Preexisting knowledge affects new learning. The curriculum should be aligned with learner knowledge and expertise, consider necessary preskills, and prepare the learner for successful performance.
Learning Objective: Describe the process and elements of curriculum design in order to meet the learning needs of students with high-incidence disabilities (HID).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Curriculum Design and Unit Development
Difficulty Level: Hard