Definitions of curriculum

A plan for achieving goals.

- a plan for providing sets of learning opportunities for persons to be educated
- an organized set of formal education and/or training intentions
- development process that (1) identifies a philosophy;
(2) assesses student ability; (3) considers possible methods of instruction; (4)
implements strategies; (5) selects assessment devices; and (6) is continually
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- an organized set of formal education and/or training intentions under the guidance of teachers.
- the curriculum as a “program” that a school “offers to its students,” a
“preplanned series of educational hurdles and an entire range of experiences a child has within the
school.”
- “experiences in the classroom [that are] planned and enacted field of study with its own foundations,
knowledge domains, research, theory, principles, and specialists.
- can be defined in terms of subject matter (math, science, English, history, and so on) or content (the
way we organize and assimilate information).
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