My Experiences with Curriculum Development

My experience is much more involved in lesson planning than in Curriculum Development.  I work at Penobscot Job Corps Center and what I teach is determined by a document called the Training Achievement Record which is essentially a checklist of what our vocational students need to learn in order to graduate from our program.

I currently work with Welding students to prepare them with the basics before fully entering their vocation.What I teach is determined by the TAR and then I plan the lessons.  In my class I teach Basic Construction Safety and Applied Mathematics Skills.  With some of my more advanced students, I am able to teach them more Advanced Math topics such as the Pythagorean Theorem and basic Trigonometry.

In the past, I worked with Medical students and at one point, I created a curriculum of Applied Math and English skills so that all of the students learned some skills that would be valuable when they go out into the working world.

I would like to someday be involved in curriculum development at higher level, but in my current position, curriculum and content is dictated at the Federal level.