This document discusses curriculum and course design. It defines key terms like curriculum, program, syllabus, and course. It also outlines the main factors to consider in situation analysis for curriculum planning like educational setting, class characteristics, and course content. The document recommends performing a needs analysis and specifying goals, objectives, and aims. It provides examples of conceptualizing a course syllabus and assessing students. Key steps in revising a course are outlined as seeing the need for change, determining the extent of change, engaging in realistic change, and following principled teaching.

1. Curriculum and course design
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• Ahmed youssef

3. Defining terms
curriculum
The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content
taught in a school or in a specific course or program.
Program :
It’s a general and broad term describes
a plan or schedule of activities, procedures,
a list of items, pieces, performers etc offered within a institution

4. Syllabus
the subjects or books to be studied in a
particular course, especially a course that leads to an exam
Course ( class )
A limited time educational experience carried out in regular
meetings
Like now we have a course or a class

5. SITUATION ANALYSIS
 It’s the first step in course design
 the effective course should consider the following factors :
1. Educational setting
2. Class characteristics
3. Faculty characteristics
4. Course content
5. Assessment and evaluation

8. The main factors of the SITUATION ANALYSIS IN
CURRICULUM PLANNING
• • Societal Factors
• • Project Factors
• • Institutional Factors
• • Teacher Factors
• • Learner Factors
• • Adoption Factors

10. NEEDS ANALYSIS
ESP : English foe Specific Purpose

13. PROBLEMATIZING

14. SPECIFYING GOALS

15. Aims
• Develop moral character and personal discipline.
• Encourage creativeness and critical thinking.
• Broaden scientific and technological knowledge.
• Foster love of humanity.
• Teach the rights and duties of citizenship
• Promote respect for human right.
• Strengthen ethical and spiritual values

16. goals
 Examples :
To develop a skill in reading,writting ,speaking and listening
To be able to verbally and visually express a point of view

17. Objectives
• Objectives are the most specific
• 1 General objective: Those objectives that describe
school wide outcomes.
• E.g. Improving students skills
• 2 Specific objective:
• Those objectives describe the outcomes of a particular unit, a
particular subject or a particular program .
• E.g. cognitive, affective domain

18. objectives
goals
aims

19. conceptualizing a course syllabus

20. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SYLLABUS AND
CURRICULUM
Prescriptive

21. THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED IN MAKING A
SYLLABUS
• The needs, wants, interests of the students.
• The learners learning styles .
• Setting out achievable objectives .
• Having a clear idea of global goals,
i.e. why the course is being run and what are the end goals .
• The physical constraints of the environment you’ll be teaching in.
• The nature of the course, e.g. a Business English Course.
• The order of the syllabus elements.
• To know how to balance skills systems.

22. Selecting textbooks ,materials ,and resources

23. criteria for e choosing textbooks for a course
• Textbooks should be appropriate to the teaching environment
(in an English speaking country or in a non-English speaking
environment)
• Meet the pupils’ needs
• Encourage our pupils when they are not motivated.
• The text encourage independent learning.
• attractive in appearance for the students
• Should focus on the four skills in learning languages

24. • Always we need to consider :
• The Price
• Availability
• The usefulness
• Layout and design
• Instructions
• Methodology

25. Assessment ( evaluation )
It’s the measuring and evaluating of the progress in the
learners levels and understanding

26. the assessment Could be through
• Traditional tests
• Quizzes
• Multiple choice test
• Fill in the blanks
• Mid and final exams

27. Purposes of evaluation
• To evaluate the growth of the pupils.
• To diagnose the weakness and strength of pupils.
• To provide basis for a modification of the curriculum and course.

28. Course revision
• The successful teachers will always look for ways to improve a
course and make it better the next time it is taught
• what are the steps you might follow in revising a course ?
1) See the need for change
2) Determine the extent of change
3) Engage in realistic change
4) Follow your own principled teaching