So You Want to Build a Course? 7 Worksheets for Curriculum Development

You know your stuff, but can you teach it?

These 7 worksheets are designed for:

• Anyone designing a course
• Teaching artists and facilitators planning community programs

Hi, I’m Nivi. I started teaching theatre before I knew how to plan lessons, and it was hard! Over the next ten years, I observed other educators’ best practices and obtained a masters in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities at NYU, where I learned how to formally develop lesson plans and curricula.

Game changer! Now, I’m passing on my skills so you can develop clear, purposeful curricula for your courses.

The Worksheets:

1. What Am I Teaching?: Define your course’s objective and the skills it will teach.
2. My Unique Course: Identify what makes your course unique, the value it adds to students’ lives, and what enables you to teach it.
3. Setting the Format: Decide whether your course will be live, on demand, or hybrid.
4. Lesson Objectives: Write clear, powerful lesson objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
5. Units: Arrange lessons into a purposeful order and assemble them into easily digestible units.
6. Course Description: Develop a compelling description for your course.
7. Course Outline: Create an approachable, teacher and student-friendly outline for your course.