Conception of Curriculum Before do any of the readings, my understanding of curriculum and how it was developed was it was decided by theorists and experienced teachers or administrators who want students to develop specific skills and knowledge at the end in a continuum. Being an educator, I am to implement them so that students are following the curriculum and become good citizens within our community. After understanding more with the knowledge acquired from the readings, I have a deeper understanding of how curriculum was developed and changed over time. The curriculum used to be standard-based where students have specific benchmarks, skills and knowledge they must attain at a grade level. Standard-based curriculum requires schools to do planning backwards from standards and benchmarks (McNeil, 2009). Assessment would be standardized...