Writing Curriclum and Lesson Plans
Teaching in a Culinary school, many Chef instructors have different beliefs on what should be taught within a certain course. Do you feel that a certain person or team of instructors (curriculum committee) should write the course outline/lesson plans or should each individual Chef Instructor be allowed to view his or her own contributions and write the course outline/lesson plans?
Hi Gerard,
Good question. There are two main sections to a syllabus. One, is the section where you go over the standardized rules and policies that have been set forth by your college and you the instructor. The other section is the one that can be changed based upon changes in the field or how the course will operate. So feel free to make changes in the syllabus as you introduce new material. Just make sure make the changes before starting a new course so you aren't making changes in the syllabus during the course. This can be confusing to the students.
Gary
Dr. Meers,
Can a syllabus (or any of its parts)be modified at any time? What if there is new material in that course that can be infused to it?
Hi Todd,
The curriculum should be based upon the standards required by the industry, in this case Culinary Arts. A curriculum committee composed of instructors and individuals from the field should review the selected content. The content then can be broken up into individual courses to be taught. The culinary arts instructors can bring their own personalities and life experiences into the courses as they make them their own. If individual instructors just pull together what they think students should learn then there is a good chance something will be left out or only one small segment of the entire needed content will be taught.
If you have any questions about this please let me know.
Gary
