Course Description:
This workshop addresses the importance of providing a step-by-step process to the curriculum development process, ingredients of a “real” curriculum, and ways to inspire creative activities. Curriculum developers often get stuck on how translate a concept into an engaging activity. Participants will be given lots of ideas to both structure and invigorate curriculum.
While training professionals may profess to write curriculum, the reality is that most training professionals have never been educated or guided through a real curriculum development process and many training curricula are woefully inadequate in terms of structure and content. Many curricula labeled as such are in reality a collection of handouts and an agenda. Because of inadequately structured curriculum, training is often dependent on the trainer’s presentations abilities and knowledge thus making training inconsistent and unreliable. Also, most training professionals typically come from a practice background rather than an education background and it can cause them anxiety when they have never had any instruction in how to actually write curriculum but are faced with having to develop it as part of their job responsibilities.
This workshop will cover the basics of writing curriculum from writing competencies to devising a cogent format. It will take the mystery out of curriculum development and translate it into step-by-step instructions to take a concept from an idea to a “real” curriculum, not merely an outline.
Trained by:
The Butler Institute for Families is not currently offering this course, but the training may be available upon request.
Target Audience:
Writers, Trainers, Presenters, and anyone looking to improve their curriculum development skills.
Contact:
Please email Linda.Metsger@du.edu or call (303) 871.2910 for further information on this training.
