The document outlines guiding principles for selecting and organizing subject matter content, including ensuring validity, significance, balance, self-sufficiency, interest, utility, and feasibility. It states that facts form the base of cognitive content structure but should be built upon with a richer knowledge base and conceptual understanding. Finally, it asserts that subject matter content integrates cognitive elements like facts and theories, skill-based elements like thinking and manipulative skills, and affective elements involving attitudes and values across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions.

1. Guiding Principles
Selection and
organization of
Content

2. 1. One guiding principle related to subject
matter content is to observe the following
qualities in the selection and organization of
content
• Validity
• Significance
• Balance
• Self-Sufficiency
• Interest
• Utility
• Feasibility

3. 2. At the base of the structure of cognitive
subject matter content are facts. We can’t do
away with facts but be sure to go beyond facts
by constructing an increasingly richer and
more sophisticated knowledge base and by
working out a process of conceptual
understanding.

4. • Providing opportunities for
experimentation
• Presenting the ideas of others
• Emphasizing conceptual understanding

5. 3. Subject matter content is an integration of
cognitive, skill, and affective elements
The Structure of Subject Matter Content
a. Cognitive
• Fact
• Concept
• Principle
• Hypothesis
• Theories
• Laws

6. The Structure of Subject Matter Content
b. Skills
•Thinking Skills
•Manipulative Skills

7. c. Interactive attitudes and values
• Cognitive dimension – mental
understanding & readiness
• Affective dimension – experience
toward something
• Behavioral dimension – living by the
value