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Good morning or good afternoon my name is Tom Langtry and I am the director of
Education Associates. We've developed in three areas: language instruction,
curriculum design, and writing and editing. For today's pro tip we'll discuss the
best method for designing and developing a curriculum. First of all, what's a
curriculum? Well if a lesson plan is the plan for a single class session, then the
syllabus is a collection of all the lesson plans for a semester, and the
curriculum would be the collection of all the syllabi for a university or a
school or an academic department or even a corporate training center. We have
found that the ADDIE model is a very effective method of designing a
curriculum for virtually any environment. An example of an ADDIE based curriculum
design is this book that I wrote it is an award-winning book, designed in order
to help staff of a state agency improve process and workflow. The ADDIE model can
be broken down into five steps: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and
Evaluation. So we have a A-D-D-I-E, the ADDIE model. Briefly, here's how it works. In the
Analysis phase we determine the learning gap or the skills gap, which is the
difference between what your staff or students already know and what they need
to know to reach your learning objective. Once we determine the learning gap, we
move into Design. And find a way to address that learning gap. From there we
move into Development and we take what we've determined in the design phase and
develop it by finding materials and building lesson plans. The Implementation
phase is when we take that work we've accomplished so far and move into the
classroom. And finally in Evaluation we take a look over kind before and afters
to ensure that the curriculum we've developed is actually accomplishing the
goals we've set. Thanks for watching BBB Pro Tips. Please
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