Unit 1

Approaches of Mastering
Curriculum: Process of Curriculum
SESSION OUTLINE:

• Motivational video
• Etymology of Curriculum
• General definition
• Sample comparison of Curriculum Models
• Purpose of curriculum
• Elements of curriculum
• Curriculum Development
• Stages of curriculum development
• Common approaches of curriculum development
MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO
MODELS AND PROCESS OF CURRICULUM:
• What is Curriculum?

• What is curriculum development?

ETYMOLOGY OF
CURRICULUM
• Latin word currere meaning “to run” or
“to proceed”
• Originally used to refer to “a race” or “the
course of a race”
• First formally labelled as “course of study”
in the 17th century
GENERAL Specific course or listing of
subjects
DEFINITIONS
OF Entire educational
CURRICULUM environment or the total
learning experience
 TRADITIONAL MODERN
(unconventional) (contemporary)

Teacher-centered Student-centered
SAMPLE
COMPARISON Knowledge giving Problem-based
OF
Curriculum Discipline led Integrated
MODELS
Standard program Electives + core
 To provide a template or
design which enables learning
to take place
PURPOSE OF
CURRICULUM
To provide answers to
What to How to When to Why
teach? teach? teach? teach it?
 Official or Formal
TWO
GENERAL
TYPES OF
CURRICULUM
Hidden or Unofficial
SPECIFIC TYPES OF
CURRICULUM
• Recommended Curriculum
• Written Curriculum
• Taught Curriculum
• Supported Curriculum
• Assessed Curriculum
• Learned Curriculum
• Hidden/implicit curriculum
ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM

STATEMENT OF AIMS SELECTION AND PATTERNS OF PROGRAM OF

AND SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION OF LEARNING AND EVALUATION OF
OBJECTIVES CONTENT TEACHING OUTCOMES
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CYLE
(by PEYTON & PEITON, (1998)

Need Assessment

design
outcome cycle

implementation
 • It is the process of selecting,
organizing, executing and
evaluating learning experience on
the basis of needs, abilities, and
CURRICULUM interests of learners, and the
DEVELOPMENT nature of society.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

It’s is a cooperative Venture FACTORS CONSIDERED IN

DEVELOPING CURRICULUM
Nature of society
Interests, needs and experience of the learners
and society; and
Educational principles.
STAGES OF CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
1. Determine educational or profesional context
2. Define needs
3. Determine aims and expected outcomes
4. Identify ideas and constraints
5. Agree on the structure and framework of the programme
6. Allocate detailed development of each topic
7. Course teams to develop coherent programmes
8. Implement and refine program
9. Develop evaluation strategy
10. Review and revise the course in line with feedback
COMMON APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT

Analysis Design Selecting Formation

QUESTION
• Why shoul we revisit our curriculum
from time to time?
• The society changes so the learners
change so that’s the point of visiting