Curriculum and Instructional Design Theorists

Curriculum and Instructional Design Theorists groups educators whose central contribution is a method for planning what gets taught and how it is sequenced or assessed, separate from a theorist explaining the underlying psychology of learning. Belongs here: Benjamin Bloom, whose Bloom's Taxonomy classifies educational goals; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, co-originators of the backward-design framework Understanding by Design; Joseph Schwab, a curriculum theorist; Carol Ann Tomlinson, who named differentiated instruction; Siegfried Engelmann, who engineered Direct Instruction; David A. Kolb, whose Experiential Learning Model structures reflection on experience; Mortimer Adler and William Bagley, curriculum and essentialist-design theorists; Howard S. Barrows, who pioneered problem-based learning in medical education; William Heard Kilpatrick, who named the project method; and David H. Rose, co-founder of Universal Design for Learning. Does not belong here: a psychologist whose contribution is a learning mechanism rather than a design method, grouped under Learning and Cognitive Theorists.