Curriculum Design and Materials Development Article

I enjoyed reading this article. I like how the article defined curriculum and syllabus for us though I felt that most of the items in this article were either common sense or touching on a subject I was already familiar with. I like that they kept curriculum and syllabus seperate from one another because it is true that they are two seperate things but curriculum and syllabus for me run hand in hand because without a curriculum you can't have a syllabus. Curriculum is the materials you are supposed to teach throughout the year and the syllabus is a list of when your going to address these items in the curriculum and how you will be assessing them. I liked also how this article talked about stakeholders. I always knew that there were stakeholders for certain tests and such but I never knew what they were called until this semester. In another TESOL class we have been talking about stakeholders in depth and really looking at what it means to be a stakeholder and what to take into consideration. I liked this article but there was nothing really in it that I haven't learned about before.