Creating Curriculums Chapter Nineteen

Robert Gagne’ generated a system based on research on cognitive processes – organizing curriculum tasks so that they build increasingly complex mastery of an area. The leading science curriculums follow those principles – the students collect empirical data, organize those data – “chaining items,” then build concepts and theses that illuminate the chains.

Each level provides the ground for the next level. Importantly, a curriculum needs to enable the students to reach the highest level so that full mastery is achieved. Use modelsofteaching.org to find a video where the Gagne’ hierarchy is explained.