2. Comprehensive Curriculum
• Incorporates physical, cognitive, and
affective aspects of learning experiences
• Accommodates several types of needs
• Prepares students for the present and future
• Includes past and current conflict analysis
3. What is curriculum?
It is all of the experiences teachers prepare
and manage for student learning, including
the following components:
• instructional goals and objectives
• interaction milieu
• learning materials
• implementation
• assessment of learning
4. Instructional Goals
Determining the instructional goals and
objectives are current needs that educators
identify, including the needs of the:
• Planet
• Society
• Professional field
• Learning institution
• Students
5. What does society need?
Current societal conditions
Social and biological interactions
Management of physical environment
Temporal dynamics
Past, present, and future
Geographic breadth
Local and global needs
Common skills for collaborative work
6. What does the profession need?
What is the role of that field in the positive
transformation of the society and world?
What knowledge and skills will prepare
humans for accomplishing established and
new goals?
How is the profession incorporating and
benefiting from human diversity?
7. What does the learning
institution need?
How does the philosophy of learning shape
the learning environment?
What are the mission and vision of the
school?
How can learning resources be acquired to
fulfill students’ learning needs?
8. What learning needs do the
students evidence?
• Psychological and physical characteristics
• Identities, norms, and life circumstances
• Current knowledge, skills, and dispositions
• Prior experiences and formal education
• Educational and professional goals
9. Instructional Objectives
The objectives are statements that enable
measurement of the knowledge, skills, and
dispositions (KSD) the students will have in
accomplishment of the instructional goal.
The goal of the instruction and the various
needs the curriculum meets are evident in
the objectives.
10. Language in Objectives
Verbs in the objectives indicate how the
learning will be measured. These statements
may also be presented as competencies.
The objectives appropriately have six levels
of learning engagement: knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation.
12. Interaction Milieu
The social climate
Trust, acceptance, accommodation,
affirmation
The physical arrangements
Varied contexts and set-ups in them
The norms for participation
Differentiated types and levels
13. Learning Materials
Explicit Curriculum
Resources identified as the lesson
contents
Hidden Curriculum
Arrangement of the learning
environment and the interactions in it
• Who is represented, and how?
• How equally empowering is the
curriculum, and instruction with it?
14. Implementation
Orientation
Assessment, prior development check
Rationalization
Why should students learn this now?
How is this relevant now and in the future?
Facilitation
Embedded assessments, informal and
formal
Evaluation
Document and analyze outcomes
15. Assessment of Learning
Measurement and evaluation of KSDs occur prior to and
throughout instruction through multiple methods.
Formative
Initial check of KSD, adjustment of instructional
plan
Summative
Comprehensive check of KSD
Informal
Discretely accomplished by instructor or observer
Formal
Announced and presented, in advance of
facilitation
16. Informal Assessment
Informal
Continual through observation and
interaction with students. Instructor’s
documentations of learning evidence may
occur with:
• observational checklist
• descriptive writing
• recording of student activities
• illustration of learning interactions
17. Formal Assessment
Linking of competencies and learning
objectives
Planned and presented criteria for
evidencing learning:
•Checklists, criteria list
• Rubrics, range of scores for
each criterion
18. Evaluation of Design
• Content: relevancy and completeness
• Process: facilitation effects on teachers,
students, and their families/partners
• Outcomes: constituent satisfaction
