Curriculum Essentials: A Resource for Educators (2nd Edition)

A brief and invitingly priced text, Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help pre-service teachers learn everything they need to know about (K-12) curriculum development. This well-organized, concise text covers the most important basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans.