Sequence Adapted Curricula

Stop Endless Review Material

At the beginning of each new school year,  the curricula usually provides endless review of previous content.  This is an essential tool to bring up students who are not ready for the course.  The down side is that advanced students are bored out of their minds and mentally check out of the course, eventually never checking back in.  Another downside is that teachers rarely get through the new material and students just keep learning less and less.

Unique Courses

Sequence-adapted curricula does not contain a significant duplication of past content in each course, each course presents new and unique material.  When the course material is viewed as a whole, the course syllabus is an aspect of the school, not the preferences of the teachers.

When students are carefully placed in their courses through the intake assessment process, all students experience challenging material within their grasp.

however, a school, may want to re-enforce certain concepts, and include the same material in multiple courses. The desire to re-enforce learning is different than reviewing past concepts at the cost of learning new material.  Sequence-adapted curricula may well contain repeated lessons for the purpose of re-enforcement.

Intake Assessment tied to the Curricula

In order to make decisions about the courses a student is ready for, the student must take an assessment prior to enrollment in those courses.  The results of the assessment must be able to point to the courses the student should be assigned if the assessment is to be useful.  

Specialized Intensive Courses

In cases where a student is falling way below the mark, specialized intensive courses must be developed that students can complete on a short time frame.  These courses should cover the bare-bones sequence of educational content required to bring the student back to normalized performance.  All students greatly improve with an intensive course focusing on their learning gaps, and most are restored to normalized performance within a term or two of specializing learning.

Sequence-adapted learning can not be properly implemented unless the intensive courses are developed.