CURRICULUM DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION.

Catalog description

The emphasis of this course is an examination of theory and research in curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation. The areas of focus include challenges principals face regarding curriculum leadership, implementing and maintaining rigorous curriculum and instruction, understanding a teacher's perspective about curriculum and instruction, the impact of ensuring an aligned curriculum, distributed leadership in curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation, improvement through planning, monitoring, and feedback, the importance of coaching teachers, and understanding the impact of the instructional leader.