Developmental Stages, Relative Worth, and Competency Stages
By Bill Murrin
October 2022
Developmental Stages (Piaget), Relative Worth (Spencer), and Competency Stages (Bloom) are foundational to establishing curricula for the various subjects that will be covered throughout my programs of study essays.
Serious attention must be forthcoming to place limits on what will be included in a program since the general tendency of education is for subject specialists to continue adding content to a course of study over vast stretches of time, to the point where the information they deem important is overwhelming to students and instructors, and therefore crowds out more relevant subject matter that demands serious attention; or prevents the necessary depth of understanding on a particular subject due to the sparsity of time dedicated to priority subjects and knowledge.