I believe that the development of a curriculum is not a child's play and it should be done by those who are experienced; that is, people, in this case, educators who are familiar with the specific field of study and the requirements needed to succeed or progress in such field. The prompt states that educators should consider students interest and include them in the curriculum. In my opinion, though the interest of students can be included in a curriculum, it should not be exclusive for two reasons.
The desire of every student interested in the same field of study varies. Consider for example, in the biological sciences, some are interested in the study of plants and others in animals. Before the start of their studies, such students might not be familiar with the existence and usefulness of microorganisms. But because the curriculum was developed by educators to help them make the right decision on what their career focus will be, some of them might end up changing their interest because they were able to learn from the 'wide' scope of the curriculum. If the students interest only has been put into consideration, they would not have the opportunity to learn novel things which are of great importance.
As a biological science student, until now I never knew that subjects such as statistics and physics are key subjects that I should offer. I took the courses only because they are requirements for the completion of my degree program. In my search for graduate school programs, I began to find that these courses are prerequisites to be admitted into my program of interest. So, if my college curriculum was designed based on my interest only, I would not have satisfied the requirements for such programs that I consider pursuing.
It is important to state that not all students interest should be included in the curriculum. Some students in the sciences love art work and might request that such should be added to the curriculum. This can be a distraction to their focus and should not be considered. Instead, such should be replaced with related contents such as practical on how to monetize the knowledge being transferred to them, ranging from making of soaps locally to production of paints, thus keeping them focused and in line with their program.
As the examples above have shown, the design of curriculum, though should be considered should not be based entirely on students' interest, the expertise and experience of educators should be involved.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 202, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rience of educators should be involved.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, thus, for example, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2076.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 417.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97841726619 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8076854949 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47242206235 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 641.7 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.1796379271 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.117647059 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5294117647 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.17647058824 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169197400336 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0717364154173 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0319252286987 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109404164164 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171838783773 0.0667264976115 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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