Curriculum Design

After taking care of family needs and students needs, I finally finished reading the articles and attempted to decipher the language and develop answers to the questions related to "task one". While reading I continued asking myself, "What is curriculum?" and "Why is curriculum important?", and kept returning to my experience. I consider curriculum is my teaching guide to developing the essential questions and objectives in the subject. In Wraga's article, "subject centered curriculum" is what high school curriculum tends to be designed to follow, as a high school special education teacher we focus on the core content and program of studies for content area and teach to high stakes tests. It has been my experience that subject centered curriculum is not conducive to student learning and application across all subject areas.
In the article, The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance." the modern curriculum seems to be ideal for students that are struggling. Modern curriculum gives teacher the flexiblibity and creativity to develop lessons based on core content that is essential to students futures, as we all know that each person learns differently and at various paces.