1. Skills of a Curriculum Developer
Chapter 6 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

2. Understands and uses knowledge of children’s growth and development patterns to plan and enhance learning.
Is knowledgeable about the concepts, facts, terminology, principles, and processes for each of the subject areas taught to create a curriculum worth teaching.
Chapter 6 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

3. Helps children to make connections within and across the curriculum.
Understands which teaching methods work best with particular children and in particular disciplines.
Helps children to make connections within and across the curriculum.
Incorporates knowledge of “emergent curriculum” by building on children’s interests, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge.
Chapter 6 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.

4. Has realistic goals and expectations.
Realizes that curriculum reflects personal experiences, values, and beliefs as much as knowledge and pedagogy.
Has realistic goals and expectations.
Jalongo & Isenberg, 2000.
Chapter 6 Exploring Your Role, Jalongo & Isenberg, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.