Definitions of curriculum assume that its body of knowledge-content and/or subjects presenting process in the most effective methods, varying according to the context. It means to embrace the many ways in which learners are enabled to achieve the outcomes offered to them. Teaching, learning support, advice and guidance, coaching, mentorship, peer and collaborative learning, feedback and assessment, personal development planning and tutoring, skills development and practice, and enabling access to curriculum resources are all processes that might be involved. Designing process leads to the production of core programme/module documents such as a course/module description, validation documents, prospectus entry, and course handbook. This involves consideration of the course marketing, learners’ final outcomes and destinations, as well as general learning and teaching approaches and requirements. Relationship between teaching and learning, the way of assessing need to be according to the needs of learners and the availability of resources. It could involves the questions in the process such as: What needs to be learned? What resources will this require? How will this be assessed? (Blenkin, 1992: 23)
Curriculum reflects educational philosophy and variety of approaches to teaching responding to the different needs of learners and employers, and reflect upon the needs of society and policy changes. The programme need to be an integral part of institution-wide initiatives transforming its strategy and policy, culture and practice. For example, computer technology change world radically. Presenting pragmatic approach, E-learning headlines benefits of using technology in the programme designing curriculum to be shared online to support se...
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...perience. The pro-active and holistic nature of the strategy and the various ways in which it is integrated into the curriculum involves merging a system to support learning’ into the programme learning and teaching strategy. (Kirk, 2002)
Different approaches to curriculum response to the needs of learners and employers and reflect upon the needs of society and policy changes. Work-Based learning, Social, Youth and Community Work curriculum explore the options for developing framework including professional skills for learning. Curriculum facilitate the development of sector, wide career pathways, requirements programme, leadership and management strategy, business case and resources, use technology. Design curriculum for the 21st century is challenging and vary according to the context in which is provided to reflect current needs in the field of modern education.
The Australian curriculum has been designed for children in their schooling years from foundation to year twelve. Currently the curriculum has covered four learning areas (English, Mathematics, Science and History) from kindergarten to year ten. “The Australian Curriculum describes knowledge, skills and understanding organised by learning areas.” (ACARA, 2010 d). Each learning area contains a: rationale – describing the nature of learning, aims – the intended result of learning from the curriculum, year level description, strands – interrelated broad organisers for the content in each learning area, content descriptions – describe what teachers are expected to teach, content elaborations – content description sup...
Definitions for curriculum are many and varied. Broad sweeping statements claim that curriculum is what is taught in various subjects and the amount of time given to each. While a more specific view is that curriculum are performance objectives for students that focus on specific skills or knowledge (Marsh, 2010). Marsh (2010, p. 93) defines curriculum as “an interrelated set of plans and experiences” that are completed at school. The curriculum used in education can have various interpretations, it may refer to the curriculum as a plan that encompasses all the learning that is planned and directed by the school. Cu...
Different theories present own opinion of the most effective way through curriculum models. ‘Curriculum models are approaches or procedures for implementing a curriculum’. (Wilson, 2009: 522) Commonly curriculum are described as product, process and praxis. While curriculum as a product depends on the objectives as the learning goals and the measured means, a process model focuses on learning and relationship between learner and teacher. Chosen curriculum model depends on teaching and assessment strategies in some cases determinate by awarding bodies, organisational constrains, funding body and political initiatives. The dominant modes of describing and managing education are today couched in the productive form. Objectives are set, a plan drawn up, then applied, and the outcomes (products) measured. It is a way of thinking about education that has grown in influence in the United Kingdom since the late 1970s with the rise of ‘vocationalism’ and the concern of competencies. In the late 1980s and the 1990s many of the debates about the National Curriculum for schools did not so much concern how the curriculum was thought about as to what its objectives and content might be. (Wilson, 2009)
Structured, pertinent curriculum is the foundation of a good class. If students are not interested in the information presented, then the class has no value to the student but to merely satisfy a graduation requir...
When it comes to implementing a curriculum everyone has an opinion. Whether it is the organization of the curriculum or the evaluation of the curriculum, everyone from administers, teachers, and parents will have their opinions on the new curriculum. The curriculum development group has many difficult decisions to make. They have to decide when and how to implement, who will be in charge, what data will be collected, and how will the curriculum be evaluated.
The understandings I have gained from this course have completely revamped my way of teaching. I have been using the unit plan and curriculum map I created in this course for the past two years, and my students enjoy it more and more each year. Learning the importance of using big ideas and essential questions in the classroom have made me a better educator and has assisted my students in learning content and skills that they can transfer to all academic areas and into their everyday lives. I now use big idea and essential questions in every ...
Curriculum work is an on-going activity. Adult education, when limited to college, university, continuing education and lifelong learning in the United States, is in need of technology-laden curriculum.
Curriculum is important being it’s the underlying factor that plays a role in determining ones growth, achievement and success. The majority of curriculum con...
E- Learning in training has tremendous influence and foothold all over the world including in India and pushing them toward success. Innovative technology is the key that develops the human resource base to improving people’s lives. Rapid innovation in ICT is transforming the way employees work, the way they interact, and the way they learn and apply in their day to day work. Centred on information technologies and the power that they increasingly wield within the global economy, it can be asserted that e-learning has drivers that previous learning technologies lacked. E-learning is a result of both rapid technological change and a response to the changes happening in culture and society itself. This provides opinion to a wide range of stakeholders involved in extending the borders of enriched technology-enabled learning. Origins of e-learning in organizations can be seen reflected on the literature as a drive to stay ahead of competitors (Morris & Rippin 2002) but there are several other support models showing the clear role e-learning evolving within organizations. From 1996 to 2002 there have been several debates and arguments based on the evolution and to established the complexity inherent in the development of e-learning, in part due to different geographic, cultural and technical infrastructures. In spite of the above scenario, e-learning as a training tool is only now gradually approaching India and has been implemented only in certain large organisations but no traces of it are seen small or medium organization. E-learning is most commonly only seen in IT industry and MNC’s it has still not reached out to the public sector. Several models have been proposed to help the understanding of e-learning. These models are influen...
ICT's vital role cannot be ignored in increasing attainment to education as well as preparing better quality education (Gutterman et al, 2009). Education has not been untouched by the pervasive impact of information and communication technology. No doubt that ICT has influenced the quantity and quality of teaching, learning, and research. ICT, in concrete terms can improve teaching and learning via its engaging and interactive content; and it can prepare real opportunities for individualized teaching. ICT has the potential to speed up, enhance, and deepen skills. It motivates and engages students in learning. It also helps to connect school experiences to practices and to develop economic viability for future
In a classroom, a teaching strategy is a generalized plan for a lesson which includes structure, instructional objectives and an outline of planned tactics, necessary to implement the strategies. Reece and Walker (2002) describe a teaching strategy as a combination of student activities supported by the use of appropriate resources to provide particular learning resources. It is that procedure by which new knowledge is fixed in the minds of students permanently. For this purpose, a teacher does extra activities in the class. These activities help the teacher to take shift from one strategy to another. A method of teaching on the other hand is directly related to the presentation of the lesson. The choice of the teaching method depe...
With the advent of modern technology, a forceful impact of this technology has been observed in nearly all walks of modern day life. With the increasing access to these facilities, the lives of modern-day human beings have changed so dramatically that in many cases a reversal towards the old ways of life seems apparently impossible. Similar is the case with the process of education. In general the concept of e-learning has modified learning modes and behaviors to a much greater extent. It has...
A curriculum is a compilation of study materials that are used at all grade levels, classroom and homework assignments and a set of teacher guides. It could also include a list of prescribed methodology and guidelines of teaching and some material for the parents etc. It is generally determined by an external governing body. However, there are some cases where it may be developed by the schools and teachers themselves.
Designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments are steps teachers use to help them make sense of the concepts they teach and helps drive instruction. These steps can take on many different forms and drive a classroom in a plethora of ways. These steps, when developed properly, can help a teacher utilize each moment in the classroom and help students gain more insight to the standards they need to become proficient.
ICT have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally transformed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of exertion within business and governance. Education is a very socially focused activity and quality education has traditionally been connected with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with learners. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings. But with the world moving swiftly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more essential and this importance will continue to grow and develop in the 21st century.