The Curriculum Development Toolkit

The impact of the Kentucky Graduate Profile rests on the purposeful integration of essential, career-focused skills into academic programs at each of the Commonwealth’s Community and Technical Colleges and Universities. To support that integration, the statewide Graduate Profile team, including faculty and staff representing each of the state’s public institutions, developed curriculum and support for each of the Ten Essential Skills and made the resulting documents available to all instructors of courses implementing the skills into coursework. The curriculum and support is compiled into the Curriculum Development Toolkit, a dynamic document that will continue to evolve as skills are integrated into courses, as assessments document new areas for instructional innovation and student growth, and as academic programs document and refine the introduction, reinforcement, and mastery of the essential skills across the program.

The Curriculum Development Toolkit includes an overview of the Graduate Profile work and the process that led to the Toolkit and continues to evolve. The Toolkit also includes descriptions for Levels of Mastery for the Ten Essential Skills, authentic assessments and rubrics field-tested and used in higher education institutions in Kentucky, and guidance on the backwards design process. The Toolkit is designed to be further developed to reflect emerging trends and respond to identified instructional needs.

For individual sections of The Curriculum Development Toolkit, use one of the links below.