2. Structure of Presentation
Structure of National Curriculum 2006
National Curriculum 2006 & textbooks
National Curriculum 2006 & Taleemi calender
National Curriculum 2006 & Teacher’s Guides
National Curriculum 2006 & Lesson Planning
National Curriculum 2006 & Resources
National Curriculum 2006 & Examinations
3. Basic Factors behind Changing
National Curriculum in 2006
The Curriculum was changed to:
Ensure shift of emphasis from
Teacher centered to Student
centered
To know to do
To know and to become
6. Competency
Key Learning area
1. Reading and thinking skills
2. Writing Skills
3. Oral Communication Skills
4. Formal and lexical aspects of language
5. Appropriate ethical and social
development
7. Standards
Standards (as defined in the National Curriculum )are:
“what students should know and be able to do.
Standards are broad descriptions of
the knowledge and skills which
students should acquire in a subject
area”
These define the competency by specifying
broadly knowledge, skills & attitudes
8. Benchmarks
Benchmarks are:
descriptions of the knowledge and skills at
developmental level.
Benchmarks further elaborate the standards
Describing what students will be able to accomplish at
every developmental levels
9. Students Learning outcomes
Students Learning outcomes are:
More specific and are given for each topic in the
subject.
These learning outcomes “determine how well
students are performing and will assure that all
students are measured on the same knowledge
and skills using the same method of
assessment”.
These outcomes are “realistic, observable,
achievable and measurable”
10. Curriculum Structure………..
Competency: Key learning area
(languages)
Standards
(Subject level) What content for Biology?
Benchmarks
(Developmental level) What content at this developmental level?
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
(Grade Level) What content for this class/topic/subtopic?
11. Components of Curriculum
Curriculum consists of following parts
1. Description of standards, benchmarks and students
learning outcomes
2. Themes
3. Teaching strategies
4. Teaching and learning resources (including guidance
for textbook writing, A. V. aids, Online resources,
materials and apparatus)
5. Assessment and evaluation
12.
13. National Curriculum 2006 &
textbooks
Curriculum specifies/dictates the nature of content
and style of textbooks
It gives complete guidelines for developing textbooks
Textbooks in Punjab completely adhere to the content
suggested in the curriculum
Every textbook endeavours to achieve the SLOs
suggested in National curriculum
14. National curriculum and teaching
strategies
Making lessons interactive
Discussion
Interactive demonstration
Role Play
Cooperative learning
Inquiry based learning
15. National Curriculum 2006 &
Resources
Human Resources
Teachers’ qualification
Teachers’ Training
Material resources
Textbooks
Instructional aids
Online resources
16. National Curriculum 2006 &
Teacher’s Guides/ Lesson Planning
Activity
Develop a lesson plan for SLO
“Use textbook pictures to aid comprehension and for
development of vocabulary” (Grade: III, p 120)
Revised teacher’s guides have been prepared strictly to
help achieve SlOs suggested in National Curriculum
17. National Curriculum 2006 &
Examinations
Curriculum coherance
Examinations are based on National Curriculum
Particularly PEC exams take SLOs rather than
textbooks
Internal examinations must be based on curriculm
18. National Curriculum 2006 &
Taleemi calendar
Competency Standard Benchmark SLOs Month
Writing Skills
Standard 1:
All students
will produce
with
developing
fluency and
accuracy, academic,
transactional and
creative
writing, which is
focused, purposeful
and shows an insight
into the writing
process.
Identify and
use
techniques
for
writing
effective and
unified
sentences
and a
paragraph.
Write multi-
syllable
words with
correct
spellings.
April
19. Your Role with respect Curriculum
Thorough awareness with curriculum of all subjects
Be able to guide teachers in:
Developing lesson plans according to SLOs in
curriculum
Adopting teaching strategies as mentioned in
curriculum