Ch. 6 Course Planning/Syllabus Design

What a chapter! There was so much information. I didn't realize that some of the activities that we were doing in class had a name. There are different aspects of each that I could identify with when I was reading through it. One of my concerns always seems to come from the topical/content-based syllabus and that is, do the students "get" what I'm taking about? Sometimes I think I make my lessons too easy because I worry about students not understanding what I'm saying. That or I think I get zoned out. We have so much material development to produce still, especially when it comes to assessment. But then after reading through some of this, I think, are we assessing too much?