Task 2: Student Needs Analysis Introduction: Curriculum theory provides a bridge between research and the experiential nature of teaching and learning. Instructors use curriculum theory as a means to transfer subjectspecific content to learners within intellectual frameworks. These frameworks facilitate the development of one’s own personal philosophy of curriculum and the development of frameworks that best meet the needs of different learners. Requirements: You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Develop a proposal for a curriculum in which you do the following: Note: You may use the attached “Task 2 Template” to guide your submission. A. Discuss the potential challenges you may face in your instructional setting that relate to the exceptional needs of students. Note: Examples of exceptional needs could be English language learners, gifted students, students with learning disabilities, or social or behavioral challenges. B. Explain how you would incorporate your personal philosophy of curriculum into the design and development of curriculum to address students with exceptional needs in your instructional setting. 1. Justify how your personal philosophy of curriculum would address the exceptional needs of students in your instructional setting. C. Explain how you would incorporate a specific curriculum ideology into the design and development of curriculum to address the exceptional needs of students in your instructional setting. Note: Examples of curriculum ideology could include scholar academic, social efficiency, learnercentered, and social reconstructive. 1. Justify how the curriculum ideology you would incorporate would address the exceptional needs described in part A.
D. Acknowledge sources, using APAformatted intext citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.