The Characteristics of a Good Curriculum are as follows:

1. It should faster the growth of development of attitude and skills required for maintaining a planned social order
of democratic type. To put more concretely, it should contribute towards democratic living.

2. It should not be narrowly conceived but dynamic and forward looking, sample adequately both the scientific
content and the abilities of the pupils to the developed, should cater to the right use of leisure later on and should be
related to the environment in which the children live. Consequently, it will then become exiting, real and
imaginative.

3. It is tested and improved through research.

4. It should aim at bringing about an intelligent and effective adjustment with the environment itself. Further, it
should enable pupils to acquire relevant scientific information of subsequent use in the significant areas of human
living.

5. It should be psychologically sound. It should take into account the theories of learning relevant to science
teaching. Further, children's capacities and capabilities, if taken into account, will lead to the development of
differentiated curriculum. Incorporating geographical difference in it will be another innovation.

6. It should provided sufficient scope for the cultivation of skills, interest, attitudes and appreciations.

7. It must be mostly based upon the first hand experiences of the pupils from all the significant areas of human
living. These experiences are characterized by newness, novelty, challenge, stimulation and creativity. Science
Content receives increasing emphasis as the children move to the higher grades.

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE CURRICULUM

The following characteristics should be true of the District's education curriculum which will guide instruction.

A.
Each curriculum objective should be concise and understandable to staff, students, parents, and the
community.

B.

Each curriculum objective should encompass previous learnings and require the student to integrate
and then apply certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes in order to demonstrate achievement of the
standard.

C.
Each curriculum objective should constitute learning that is:

1.
  durable - will be useful to the student for a considerable period of his/her lifetime;

2.
  significant - will have a major effect upon how the student will function;

3.

transferable - will be useful in meeting needs in other educational programs, the world of
  work, and/or the student's personal life.

D.
  Each curriculum objective should be feasible for the staff and students to accomplish.

E.
Each curriculum objective should be measurable on a cumulative basis and at different
  stages of the student's career in the District and the measurement should be both valid and
reliable.

F.
Each outcome assessment and evaluation should be accompanied by both the criteria by
  which the learning will be judged and the standards of quality which will apply