Stages of curriculum design and development

1. Stages of
curriculum
design
Name: Raviraj D
Class: M.Ed. 1st Sem
Prof: Dr. Prashantha Kumara T.M
Sub: ADVANCED CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

2. Definition of Curriculum
Design or Development
Curriculum development is defined
as planned, a purposeful,
progressive, and systematic process
to create positive improvements in
the educational system.

3. Steps followed in developing
a curriculum is as follows:
knowing thoroughly from various sources
such as students’ cumulative records,
teacher’s recordings, parents’ interviews,
children’s cases and their IQ achievement.
1. Diagnosing needs

4. • Concepts or ideas to be learnt
• Attitudes, sensitivities and feelings to be
developed
• Ways of thinking to be reinforced,
strengthened or initiated
• Habits and skills to be mastered
2. Formulating specific objectives

5. • Selecting the topic
• Selecting the basic ideas
• Selecting the specific content
3. Selecting content

6. • Sequential order
• Concrete to abstract
• Simple to complex
• Known to unknown
• Immediate to remote
• Easy to difficult
4. Organising content

7. reading, writing, observing, doing research, analysing,
discussing, tabulating, painting and absorption.
• Provide diagnostic evidence for the teacher
• Help the students make a connection with their own
experience
• Arouse interest
• Provide concrete descriptive data
• Create involvement and motivation
5. Selecting and organizing learning experience

8. continuous diagnosis along with the
comparison of results with varied
approaches and methods.
Whether the objectives of the curriculum
are achieved needs to be evaluated.
6 Evaluating

9. After completing unit by unit and the whole
curriculum, it is necessary to check the overall
consistency among its parts or individual aspects.
Every aspect needs to be checked-whether the core
ideas are reflected in the content, whether the
suitable learning experiences are planned for the
content and whether the overall achievement of
objectives is planned for the overall progress of the
topic.
7. Checking for balance and sequence