Curriculum Revision Process

Curriculum is developed and revised based on guidelines set forth by No Child Left Behind and the Carl Perkins Act. The job of curriculum is to provide teachers a structure for instruction so that they can balance the often competing forces of standards, tests, textbooks and programs.

• Writing Team and Meeting Preparation
  Administrators are asked to disseminate memos to instructors. Writing teams are held online. All teachers are encouraged to participate.


• Preparation for Curriculum Revision
  Instructional design specialists conduct research related to trends in the field and locate new reference materials and industry-specific standards.


• Information from Interested Parties
  IDS and the revision team collect and review surveys regarding curricula changes suggested by industry and other instructors.


• Textbook Adoption 
  This process is handled through the Mississippi Department of Education's Textbook Office.


• Blackboard Site
  IDS create Blackboard Resource & Instructional materials Designed by Great Educators sites to allow all instructors to collaborate via the Internet. IDS post announcements, staff information, survey summaries and industry input, research, new references and other information in the Blackboard site.


• Instructor Work
  Instructors are asked to review materials on the Blackboard site, complete specific assignments (review and/or revise competencies and objectives, standards and references, as well as write teaching and assessment strategies), submit assignments for peer review and comment on the work of other instructors.


• Writing Team Meeting Curriculum/MS-CPAS2
  IDS and revision team members work together to revise the curriculum document, develop or revise MS-CPAS2 and review materials provided to preservice teachers in the program.


• Validation
  Industry personnel, all instructors in the state and the public are asked to review the revised curriculum and make comments. Comments are reviewed and changes are made as appropriate. The final curriculum is approved by the State Board of Education and the Mississippi Community College Board (postsecondary).