Professional educators must be aware of issues involved pertaining to the development of relevant objectives, learning experiences, and evaluation procedures to be used in teaching-learning situations, and these issues should be clarified in terms of the thinking of selected educators of the past as well as leading professionals in the field of education today. The major concepts for consideration in elementary curriculum development are: (1) the concept of the learner; (2) the content of the curriculum; (3) the objectives of the curriculum; (4) the learning experiences selected to achieve objectives; (5) the sequence of learning experiences; and (6) the evaluation of achievement. (DS)