The document outlines six key features of curriculum design: 1) Teachers who are quality educators and companions for learners. 2) Learners who are central to the educational process. 3) Knowledge, skills and values that help learners succeed. 4) Strategies and methods selected by teachers to align with learners' needs. 5) Performance that results from a good curriculum. 6) Partnerships with community stakeholders. It also describes three common approaches to curriculum design: learner-centered, subject-centered, and problem-centered.

1. Approaches to
Curriculum
Design
Prepared by: Angelica V. Villegas
BEEd 3-1

2. The Six
Features of a
Curriculum

3. 1. Who teaches?
The Teacher
 Quality Education requires quality
teachers.
 They are ideal companions
of the learners.

4. 2. Who do the teachers teach?
The Learners
The learners are at the center stage in
the educative process.
They are the most important factors
in the learning environment.

5. 3. What do the teachers teach?
Knowledge, Skills, Values
“”” ”To help the learners cope with rapid
changes to understand and to succeed in
the new work in the workplace, we must
design a curriculum oriented to tomorrow.”
The learning episode influences the
teaching-learning process.

6. 4. How do teachers teach?
Strategies & Methods
Teacher must use methodologies,
approaches and strategies “capped with
compassionate and winsome nature”.
Teachers should select teaching methods,
learning activities and instructional
materials or resources appropriate to
learners and aligned to objectives of the
lesson.
appropriate

7. 5. How much of the teaching
was learned?
Performance
Performance is a feature of a
curriculum that should be given
emphasis.
A good curriculum is one that results
in high or excellent performance.

8. 6. With whom do we teach?
Community Partners
Teachers must established relationship
with parents, NGO’s and their
takeholders.
 Partnership is a means and not an
end to be pursued

9. Approaches
to
Curriculum
Design

10. The common approaches to
curriculum design includes:
Child or Learner-Centered
Approach
Subject-Centered Approach
Problem-centered and human
relation-centered approach

11. Child or Learner-Centered
Approach
This approach to curriculum
design is based on the
underlying philosophy that the
child is the center of the
educational process.

12. Subject-Centered
Approach
The primary focus is the subject matter.
The emphasis is on bits and pieces of
information which are detached from life.
The subject matter serves as means of
identifying problems in living.

13. Problem-Centered
Approach
This approach is based on a
curriculum design which assumes
that in the process of living,
children experience problems.

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