2. What is the importance of
Curriculum Development?
3. Importance of
Curriculum Development?
• Curriculum development plays a vital role in
improving the economy of a country.
• Provides answers or solutions to the world's pressing
conditions and problems
environment politics
socio-
economics
other issues on
poverty
Climate change
and sustainable
development
5. Curriculum
dynamic as the changes
that occur in society
listing of subject to be
taught in school
the total learning
experiences of
individuals not only in
schools but in society as
well.
10. Tyler’s Model of Curriculum
• Oldest and most widely used
• Top-down approach
• Centralized
11. Tyler’s Model of Curriculum
1. Determine the school’s objectives
2. Identify educational experiences related to purpose
3. Organize the experiences
4. Evaluate the purposes
12. Hilda Taba
• An architect, a curriculum theorist, a
curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator.
• Introduced to Progressive education ideas at
Tartu University by her philosophy
professors.
• She wrote a book entitled Curriculum
Development: Theory and Practice (1962)
13. The Grass Root Model
• Bottom-up approach.
• Inductive Method.
• Decentralized
• “Teachers must be involved in the development of the
curriculum.”
14. The Grass Root Model
1. Diagnosis of Needs
2. Formulating Objectives
3. Selecting Content
4. Organizing content
5. Selecting Learning Experience
6. Organizing Learning Experience
7. Evaluation
16. Saylor and Alexander Model
1. Goals, Objectives and Domains
2. Curriculum Designing
3. Curriculum Implementation
4. Evaluation
Editor's Notes
In today's knowledge economy, curriculum development plays a vital role in improving the economy of a country. It also provides answers or solutions to the world's pressing conditions and problems, such as environment, politics, socio-economics, and other issues on poverty, climate change and sustainable development.
Curriculum development has a broad scope because it is not only about the school, the learners, and the teachers. It is also about the development of society in general. In today's knowledge economy, curriculum development plays a vital role in improving a country's economy.
•Traditional education means education in which instruction takes place between an instructor and students where all are physically present in the same classroom.
>Traditional classroom teaching environment increases interaction among students and provides conducive environment to learn fellow students. It also encourages higher level of competitiveness among students. The social environment at a traditional school is perfect to build a child's character and personality.
>3 R's of teaching are - reading, writing, and 'rithmetic
•Progressivists believe that individuality, progress, and change are fundamental to one's education. Believing that people learn best from what they consider most relevant to their lives, progressivists center their curricula on the needs, experiences, interests, and abilities of students.
>Students learn by doing and are encouraged to follow their own curiosity.
>Focus on learning outcomes, and developing intrinsic motivation.
>Prepares students for participation in a democratic society.
>Emphasis on collaboration and perspective taking.
>Focus on the whole child.