A brief and invitingly priced text, Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition , serves as an excellent resource and guide to help pre-service teachers learn everything they need to know about (K-12) curriculum development.
Jon W. Wiles is an educator who provides curriculum leadership to schools and educational agencies. He is specialized in the creating and implementing curriculum plans.
Wiles has published a number of books on curriculum and educational leadership, teacher training, administration, school supervision, theory of change, politics of education, middle grades education, and technology.
The title of the book is very apt for its content. Wiles provides us the must-know information about curriculum presented in a simple way that even beginners in the field of curriculum studies would have a clear picture of the heart of any school system.
Jon Wiles has been a classic name in the field of education, which is not surprising. Anyone who can encapsulate a topic as massive as that of curriculum truly deserves his name written in the history of education.