There are plenty of curriculum models (
Tylers seminal 1949 work
~ Bruners definition of curriculum
~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model
~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind)
~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.