Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Preparing the
Essential Records
Nasir M. Baba
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction,
Federal College of Education (Tech), Gusau
1. Curriculum
2. Syllabus
3. Scheme of Work
4. Lesson Plan
…curriculum
This is the sum total of all experiences
planned and offered to the learner by the
school. It is:
What we teach (content)
How we teach (method)
With what we teach (materials)
How we assess (assessment)
…syllabus
Curriculum experiences and content are
sometimes broken into subjects – each with
its subject matter and organisational
patterns.
The content selected for each subject
(usually presented in chunks called topics
or units) to be taught in a given period is
called Syllabus.
Scheme of Work
Content (topics) contained in the syllabus have to
be further broken down into smaller topics that
are suitable for the type of learners we have and
that can be taught within the limited duration of a
lesson.
Schemes of work are prepared with a particular
set of learners in mind. It is the opportunities
teachers have to bend the curriculum to the
unique characteristics of their students.
Lesson Plan
A lesson plan is the teacher’s attempt to
translate schemes of work into classroom
realities. It is planned for every lesson.
Therefore, while a scheme of work
describes what the teacher will do in a
term; a lesson plan describes what the
teacher will do in a lesson.
Teachers Instructional Records
For the purpose of instruction, a teacher needs:
Syllabus
Scheme of Work and
Lesson Plan
However, once a Scheme of Work is drawn, a
teacher may not need syllabus again. The
Scheme of Work becomes the working document
which is implemented through the lesson plan
Teacher’s Diary
The sequence is such that a teacher consults
his/her scheme of Work to see the expected work
for a week; prepares lesson plan to the number of
periods per week; and finally records each week’s
work in Record of Work.
Therefore, scheme of work describes the work
expected to be done each week for the whole
term. Record of Work describes work done each
week for the whole term. The two taken together
give us DIARY OF WORK.
Diary of Work
DIARY OF WORK