Active Learning Consultants, Richard Bernato Ed.D.

CURRICULUM DESIGN

ALC Specialists will train your school or organization to design curriculum to

	promote interaction among its members that will
	promote problem solving and establish
	higher level thinking processes in
	cross disciplinary approaches that go beyond content specifics towards
	process skills, creativity, and critical examination by
	developing specific skills and content to train your employees to perform their tasks for your organization.

GOALS – The learning difference between primates and human may be that humans pursue intentional learning. We need purpose, targets, aims, and ends to drive our learning. While most lesson and curriculum design models use goals or objectives Active Learning Consultants’ Curriculum Leadership Packages engage the goal creation process with the all important spiral-back system to link the goals with authentic assessments.

STRATEGIES – No objective has any value to a school or an organization's training program unless it is embedded in a series of activities intended to give participants practice, and mastery of the target. The problem with many curriculum models is that these strategies often get cursory, superficial planning depth and are not rich enough or not executed well enough to involve the learner. Active Learning Consultants’ Curriculum Leadership Packages ensure that strategies are planned, planned well, are highly involving, and are effective.

ASSESSMENT - Even in an era where assessment and accountability are buzzwords in any learning program, educators and corporation trainers often give short shrift to truly evaluating the extent to which learners have met the intended goal(s). This is despite the fact that their goals or objectives have been written. It is one thing to assume, on the basis of some brief questions, the goal mastery of the entire class, and another to have concrete, informative individual evaluation requirements to give the instructor the feedback she needs to ensure universal mastery. Active Learning Consultants’ Curriculum Leadership Packages emphasizes multiple sets of formative and summative assessment strategies that are both whole-group and individual - based.

Active Learning Consultants Curriculum Leadership Packages will use all three dimensions of instructional training; goals, strategies, and assessments to meet your school or organization's training / learning needs. Moreover Active Learning Consultants Curriculum Leadership Packages will use state of the art current curriculum research that is based on higher order thinking, evaluative, decisive thinking, and purpose - based creativity.

Each of these dimensions are colored by the High Involvement philosophy: The more actively involved the learner, the more likely the achievement.

For more information, contact us at richber1@optonline.net