To be very honest, I do not have all that much experience with curriculum. When I started my current teaching job at Washington Academy, I was handed a fairly old curriculum and was told to "work with it." I basically follow the skeleton of it and have added some different topics and also different ways of assessing my students. Last school year, Washington Academy went through the accreditation process with the NEASC. Throughout that process, as a school community, we had to look at our curriculums and see what direction we were headed in and if we were correctly serving our population of students. Because Washington Academy is a semi-private school, we have a little more leeway with how we want to teach. For me, that gives me the opportunity to explore topics that my students are truly interested in.
The curriculum for my World History classes is pretty straight forward. I teach my students four major concepts: History, Geography, Economics, and Civics. Within those four major concepts we look at things like: politics, the foundations of government, economic systems and how they work, places, regions, locations, human systems, comparative history, and interactions of people, culture, and ideas. We cover topics like: Prehistory, the Rise of Europe, The Renaissance and Reformation, etc... I like to think the students receive a pretty well rounded World History education.
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