What it does
Curriculum-O-Matic 3000 is a small, opinionated tool that walks pre-service teachers through curriculum design in the order their students will actually experience it. It enforces the basic structure of evidence-based planning — behavior before knowledge, sequence before shortcut, isolate before integrate, transfer is the test — and turns abstract methods-class principles into a concrete weekly plan.
It deliberately resists letting you start with notation, vocabulary, or “the concert piece.” If you want to plan a unit on syncopation, you’ll be asked first what you’ll listen for, what you’ll isolate, and how transfer will be observed. If you can’t answer, the tool waits.
Why “Curriculum-O-Matic 3000”
Because curriculum planning is genuinely heavy work, and the tool that helps you do it should not also be heavy. The branding is on purpose. Students remember it; the principles travel home with them.
Status
Live, in active use each spring. Iterating each semester as the curriculum-design unit evolves.