Program curriculum can play an important role in the success of schools, students, and teachers. All our products come with standards-based curriculum — and every lesson is written by teachers for teachers. Our curriculum feature student activities, worksheets, quizzes, lesson times, and more! Let’s take a closer look at what you’ll find in our curriculum.
Why Curriculum in Education Is Important
Good curriculum provides measurable targets. Measurable outcomes help you track progress throughout the year and determine if your lessons are successful. This means it will be easy to make necessary adjustments if you notice students aren’t meeting the learning objectives. Good curriculum also makes learning and teaching consistent so students will gain the same knowledge and schools no matter who their instructor is.
What Makes Our School Curriculum Unique
Our classroom curriculum includes printable worksheets and quizzes with answer keys and activities all laid out for you with instructions and any needed rubrics or checklists provided. All our curriculum is created specifically for use with our products, making incorporating your new trainer, simulator, or kit into your course simple and straightforward.
Every lesson of our career and technical education (CTE) curriculum has a corresponding, ready-to-use slide presentation and an approximation of how long each part of the lesson takes to teach, making it easier to plan out your classes. Lessons are broken down into three sections: Focus, Learn, and Review.
Focus
The Focus section of our program curriculum kicks off every lesson and captures students’ attention with an activity to get them focused on the lesson topic. Activities can include class discussions, games, demonstrations, and more! Below are some specific examples from a few of our lessons.
- In the curriculum that comes with our Beef Cattle Kit, one Focus section begins with a class discussion on Angus beef and why it’s so expensive before introducing the concept of flavor and meat marbling with some presentation slides. This section ends with students completing a worksheet in which they describe what marbling means when it comes to steak.
- The How to Read a Ruler/Tape Measure lesson of the Measurement Math Training Kit curriculum has a Focus activity in which students learn fractions through friendly competition. Students play War, the card game, with provided fraction cards instead of playing cards.
- Our Introduction to Auscultation of the Infant curriculum included with our Infant Vital Signs Trainer starts with a Focus activity that has students take an anatomy pre-test. Students will learn common anatomical landmarks of the infant respiratory, cardiac, and abdominal systems through labeling diagrams.
Learn
The Learn portion of our school curriculum is where, as the name suggests, the bulk of the learning happens. Slideshows, group activities, and demonstrations are a few examples of presentation methods that may be employed here. Check out the bulleted list below for some examples straight from our lessons!
- One of the Learn sections in our Butcher Pork Cut Models curriculum has students watch an included slide presentation on pork harvesting steps while filling out a note sheet on meat by-products. Students will also use a pork harvesting steps worksheet they completed in the Focus section to take notes and see if they found the correct information when researching what each step consists of.
- In our Animal Clinic Design Kit curriculum, the final lesson’s Learn portion has students compile all their research and learning into a final project. They’ll create an animal clinic design that demonstrates best practices for animal care using the whiteboards and tiles provided in the kit.
- One Learn portion in our Medical Math Training Kit curriculum teaches students how to calculate oral medication math questions using different methods. You can choose to use the included slide presentation to teach students or have the students complete an online lesson that covers all the same content but lets students learn at their own pace. If you teach via slide presentation, you can also have students complete practice problems from the student workbook as part of the lecture.
Review
All our classroom curriculum lessons conclude with a review of the key messages in the lesson. This review could take the form of activities, practice tasks, or tests. You can find some specific examples of our Review sections below.
- The Legal Issues lesson of the Contemporary Entrepreneurship Program curriculum has a Review activity in which students come up with a structure and name for their own business idea. They must research how to register their business as well as how to obtain a federal EIN. Students also research if a state tax ID would be needed for their business and what licenses they would need. All this research can be completed by themselves or in a group. After finishing the research activities, students will take a brief multiple-choice post-test.
- Our Canine Vet Trainer curriculum ends with a Review activity in which students take turns locating and demonstrating directional terms, bones, joints, and organs on the Canine Vet Trainer. To make the activity more fun, you can blindfold the students as they attempt to locate the terms!
- In our RealCareer™ Electrical Wiring Kit curriculum, there’s a review activity that consists of a group discussion on real-world scenarios related to electrical principles with questions such as, “What are some advantages of 240-volt circuits?” After the discussion, students take a short quiz on the topic.
CTE Curriculum Completion
Once your students have finished the program curriculum, you can reward them with the included Student Completion Certificate. This certificate is beneficial, tangible evidence that provides proof of mastery. With this certificate, students can demonstrate a rich and reliable record of their learning to anyone. The certificate features the program name, topics addressed, student name, name of school, and teacher signature. You can see a sample of our Student Completion Certificate below.
Learn More
If you’re looking for more information about curriculum and lesson plans, consider these resources:
- Explore our free lesson plans if you’d like to see what our curriculum looks like for yourself
- Read our blog post, Free Lesson Plans and Resources For Your Next Substitute Teacher
