WHAT IS A CURRICULUM?

• Curriculum is a design plan for

learning that requires the
purposeful and proactive
organization, sequencing, and
management of the interactions
among the teachers, the students,
and the content knowledge we want
students to acquire.
SUBJECT/ TEACHER-CENTERED CURRICULUM
• This model focuses on the
content of the curriculum.
• The subject centered design
corresponds mostly to the
textbook written for the specific
subject.
WHAT IS A CURRICULUM MODEL?

A model is a format for

curriculum design developed to
meet unique needs, contexts,
and/or purposes. In order to
address these goals,
curriculum developers design,
reconfigure, or rearrange one or
more key curriculum
components.
CURRICULUM DESIGNS

• Subject-Centered
Curriculum
• Learner-Centered
Curriculum
•
Problem-
Centered
Curriculum
DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM

The planned and guided learning

experiences and intended learning
outcomes, formulated through the
systematic reconstruction of
knowledge and experiences, under
the auspices of the school, for the
learners’ continuous and willful
growth in personal social
competence.” (Daniel Tanner, 1980)
•The subject-centered curriculum can be focused
on
– traditional areas in the traditional disciplines
– interdisciplinary topics that touch on a wide
variety of fields – on processes such as
problem solving
– on the goal of teaching students to be
critical
consumers of information.
• A curriculum can also be organized around a
subject center by focusing on certain processes,
strategies, or life-skills, such as problem
solving, decision making, or teamwork.
OBJECTIVES:

To transfer
cultural
heritage

To impart
information To
represent
knowledge
DRAWBACK
S

Ignores No process
interest of of insight or
students thinking

Neglects
Remote social
memory problems
and
demands
LEARNER-CENTERED CURRICULUM
• centered on certain aspects of
the learners
themselves.
•may explore the learner’s own
life or family
history or local environment.
 ADVANTAGES:

• It gives power to the learners: they are

identified as
the experts in knowing what they need
to know.
• The constructivist element of this approach
honors
the social and cultural context of the learner.
• It creates a direct link between in-class work
and
learners' need for literacy outside the
classroom.
 DISADVANTAGES:
• It often relies on the teacher's ability to create
or select
materials appropriate to learners' expressed
needs.
•Teachers may also find it difficult to strike an
acceptable balance among the competing
needs and
interests of students.
 TEACHERS CENTERED V/S LEARNERCENTERED
CURRICULUM
Teacher-Centered Learner-Centered
Focus is on instructor Focus is on both students and instructor

Instructor talks; students listen Instructor models; students interact with

instructor and one another
Students work alone Students work in pairs, in groups, or alone
depending on the purpose of the activity

Instructor monitors and corrects every student Students talk without constant instructor
utterance monitoring

Instructor chooses topics Students have some choice of topics

Instructor answers student’s questions about Students answer each other’s questions, using
language instructor as an information resource

Classroom is often noisy and busy Instructor evaluates student learning

Classroom is quite Students evaluate their own learning; instructor

also evaluates
PROBLEM-CENTERED CURRICULUM

•
Problem-centered curriculum, or
problem based learning, organizes
subject matter around a problem, real
or hypothetical, that needs to be
solved.
•Problem-centered curriculum is
inherently engaging and authentic,
because the students have a real
purpose to their inquiry -- solving the
problem.
 PROBLEM CENTERED-CURRICULUM
• Types of problems to be explored may
include:
– Life situations involving real problems of
practice
– Problems that revolve around life at a given
school
– Problems selected from local issues –
Philosophical or moral problems
 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT MODELS

• Tyler’s model
• Taba’s model
• Saylor, Alexander, and Lewis’s
model
• Oliva model
 THE TYLER MODEL
THE TYLER MODEL
• Introduced in 1949 by Ralph Tyler in his classic
book Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction.
• One of the best known models for
curriculum development.
• Known for the special attention it gives to
the planning phases.
• deductive for it proceeds from the general
(examining the needs of society, for example) to the
specific (specifying instructional objectives).
• Tyler recommends that curriculum planners
identify general objectives by gathering data from
three sources:
○ the learners
○ contemporary life outside the school
○ subject matter.
• After identifying numerous general objectives, the
planners refine them by filtering them through two
screens:
○ the philosophical screen
○ the psychological screen
• In the Tyler Model, the general objectives that
successfully pass through the two screens become
what are now popularly known as instructional
objectives.
THE TYLER MODEL OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
 She believed that the curriculum should be
designed by the teachers rather than handed
down by higher authority.
• Further, she felt that teachers should begin the
process by creating teaching-learning units for
their students in their schools rather initially in
creating a general curriculum design.
• She noted 7 major steps to her grass-roots
model in which teachers would have major
input. • She was of the opinion that the Tyler
model was more of an administrative
model.
 HILDA TABA : GRASSROOTS APPROACH
1. Diagnosis of learners needs and expectations of the
larger society.
2. Formulation of learning objectives.
3. Selection of the learning content.
4. Organization of learning content.
5. Selection of the learning experiences.
6. Organization of learning activities.
7.Determination of what to evaluate and the means of
doing it.
 THE TABA MODEL
• Diagnosis of need: The teacher who is also the
curriculum designer starts the process by
identifying the needs of students for whom the
curriculum is planned. For example, the
majority of students are unable to think
critically.
• Formulation of objectives: After the teacher has
identified needs that require attention, he or
she specifies objectives to be accomplished.
SUMMARIZATIO
N
• Introduction
• Definition
• Curriculum designs
– Subject-Centered Curriculum
– Learner-Centered Curriculum
– Problem-Centered Curriculum
• Curriculum models
– Tyler’s model
– Taba’s model
 RECAPTUALIZATIO
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• In teacher centered curriculum, the focus is only on
.
• Tyler model was introduced in .
• The grassroot approach was given by
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• The disadvantage of learner centered curriculum is
.
• Various sources in curriculum planning in Tyler model
are .
 TRUE/FALSE
• Subject centered curriculum focuses on the
content of the curriculum. T/F
• Oliva model is an inductive model. T/F
• Hilda Taba believed that the curriculum should be
designed by the teachers. T/F
• Tyler model was introduced in 1949. T/F
• Problem centered curriculum explores
philosophical or moral problems. T/F