Stage 1: Understand Needs
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Understanding the needs of learners and the community is important for both curriculum development and effective instruction. When program administrators and instructors have a clear understanding of their context, as well as the needs of learners and the community, they are able to develop curricula that are effective, responsive and accountable.
Understanding needs is the first stage in curriculum development and influences all other stages of the process: Stage 2: Determine Focus, Stage 3: Set Learning Outcomes, Stage 4: Integrate Assessment and Stage 5: Demonstrate Accountability.
Understanding learners' needs in terms of a settlement continuum can help you develop a curriculum and program that will help learners move closer to integration.
Understanding literacy development needs in terms of a literacy continuum can help you support learners' progress beyond the very basics of literacy acquisition, as well as in their lifelong literacy development.
This section of the curriculum framework will help you develop an understanding of needs in the field of ESL literacy, from the broad context of Alberta through to programming and classroom considerations.
