EDEL 478 - Developmentally Responsive Curriculum in the Middle Grades

• Design and/or modify curriculum to be relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory for all students within a given classroom.
• Design and/or modify curriculum to be representative of the goals and outcomes of the Common Core State Standards.
• Demonstrate an understanding of their roles in the total school curriculum process that involves horizontal and vertical teaming, curriculum mapping and alignment, selection of materials, etc. for young adolescents.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to integrate instructional technology into the curriculum and operationalize it within the classroom.
• Utilize UbD lesson planning strategy.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to provide effective student feedback that facilitates continued learning.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively develop and deliver instructional lessons within a learning environment.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the importance of Professionalism.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the importance of creating a caring, stimulating, inclusive and safe community where middle Level learners can take intellectual risks and work independently as well as collaborative.