This document discusses different models and approaches for curriculum design. It outlines subject-centered, learner-centered, and problem-centered design models. Within subject-centered design, it describes subject, discipline, correlation, and broad field/interdisciplinary approaches. For learner-centered design, it discusses child-centered, experience-centered, and humanistic designs. It also covers dimensions of curriculum design like scope, sequence, continuity, integration, and articulation. Principles for organizing content and sequencing learning are provided. The document provides guidelines for curriculum design committees to consider.

1. Module II
Crafting the Curriculum
Presented by:
Sheila Mae Rosali d.N. Lavapie

2. Introduction
• As a teacher, one has to be a curriculum
designer, curriculum implementor
and a curriculum evaluator.
These threefold functions are embedded
in the teaching profession.

3. Lesson 1:
Curriculum Design Models
2 ways a curriculum be organized:
• Horizontal organization
• Vertical organization

4. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
1. Subject-centered design model
• Focuses on the content of the curriculum
• Centered design corresponds mostly on
textbooks
• Aim for excellence in the subject matter
content

5. Subject-Centered Curriculum
a. Subject design
• Oldest and the most familiar design for
teachers, parents, laymen and advocates.
• Easy to deliver
• Complementary books are written & support
instructional materials are commercially
available

6. Subject-Centered Curriculum
b. Discipline design
• Focuses on academic disciplines
• Learned through a method which the scholars
use to study a specific content in their fields
• Often used in college

7. Subject-Centered Curriculum
c. Correlation design
• Links separate subject designs in order to
reduce fragmentation
• Subjects are related to one another but each
maintains its identity

8. Subject-Centered Curriculum
d. Broad field design/interdisciplinary
• Prevent the compartmentalization of subjects
& integrate the contents that are related to
each other
• Sometimes called holistic curriculum
–Broad field design draws around themes
and integration

9. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
2. Learner-Centered Design
• Among the progressive educational
psychologists, the learner is the center of the
educative process.

10. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
2. Learner-Centered Design
• Among the progressive educational
psychologists, the learner is the center of the
educative process.

11. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
a. Child-centered design
• Anchored on the needs and interests of the
child
• Learner learns by doing
• Learners interact with the teachers &
environment
• Collaborative effort between teachers &
students on planning lessons

12. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
b. Experience-centered design
• Believes that the interests and needs of
learners cannot be pre-planned
• Time is flexible and children are free to make
options
• Activities revolve around different emphasis
such as touching, imagining
relating & others

13. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
c. Humanistic design
• Development of self is the ultimate objective
of learning
• It considers the cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domains to be interconnected
and must be addressed in the curriculum

14. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
3. Problem-Centered Design
• Draws on social problems, needs, interest and
the abilities of the learners
• Emphases on life situations, contemporary
life problems, areas of living & many others

15. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
a. Life-situations design
• Pressing immediate problems of the society
and the students' existing concerns are
utilized
• The connection of subject to real situations
increases the relevance of the curriculum

16. Other structures of
Curriculum Design
b. Core design
• Centers on general education and the
problems are based on common human
activities
• Central focus includes common needs,
problems and concerns of the learner.

17. Lesson 2:
Dimensions and Principles
of Curriculum Design
6 Dimensions of a Curriculum Design:

Scope Sequence

Continuity Integration

Articulation Balance

18. Dimensions of Curriculum Design
1. Scope
• All the contents, topics, learning experiences
and organizing threads comprising the
educational plan
• It is where the decision-making of the teacher
is needed
• Can be divided into chunks called
units, sub units, chapters or
sub-chapters

19. Dimensions of Curriculum Design
1. Scope
• Deductive principle
– from whole to the parts which will
have a cascading arrangement
• Inductive principle
– From examples to generalization

20. Dimensions of Curriculum Design
2. Sequence
• Contents and experiences are arranged in
hierarchical manner, where the basis can
either be logic of the subject matter or on the
developmental patterns of growth of the
cognitive, affective and psychomotor
domains.

21. 4 Principles for Sequence
(Smith, Stanley& Shore)
a. Simple to complex learning
– Content experiences are arranged
from simple to complex; concrete to
abstract, from easy to difficult
b. Prerequisite learning
– There are fundamental things to be
learned ahead

22. 4 Principles for Sequence
(Smith, Stanley& Shore)
c. Whole to part learning
– Overview before specific content or
topics
d. Chronological learning
– Order of events is made as a basis of
sequencing the content and
experiences

23. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
1. World-related sequence
– Relationship that exists among people,
objects or events of the world
a. Space
– Spatial relations will be the basis
– Closest to farthest;top to
bottom or east to west

24. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
1. World-related sequence
– Relationship that exists among people,
objects or events of the world
a. Space
– Spatial relations will be the basis
– Closest to farthest;top to
bottom or east to west

25. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
b. Time
– Content is based from the earliest to
the most recent
c. Physical attributes
– Physical characteristics such as age,
shape, size, brightness and others

26. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
2. Concept-related sequence
– Reflects the organization of the
conceptual world, how ideas are
related together in a logical manner

27. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
a. Class relations
– Refers to group or set of things that
share common practices
b. Propositional relations
– Statement that asserts something
– Evidence ahead before proposition

28. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
3. Inquiry-related sequence
– Based on scientific method of inquiry
– On the process of generating,
discovering and verifying knowledge
– Content and experiences are
sequenced logically and methodically

29. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
4. Learning-related sequence
– Based on psychology of learning and
how people learn
a. Empirical prerequisites
– Based on empirical studies where
prerequisite is required before
learning the next
level

30. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
b. Familiarity
– Prior learning
– Familiar should be taken up first
before the unfamiliar
c. Difficulty
– Easy content is taken ahead than the
difficult one

31. 5 Major Principles for organizing
content in units
(Posner & Rudnitsky)
d. Interest
– Contents and experiences that
stimulate interest are those that are
novel
– These can arouse curiosity and interest
of learners
– Use these contents and experiences to
increase the appetite for learning

32. Dimensions of Curriculum Design
3. Continuity
• Vertical repetition and recurring appearances
of the content provide continuity in the
curriculum
• For learners to develop the ideas,these have
developed and re developed in spiral fashion
in increasing depth and breadth as the
learners advance

33. Dimensions of Curriculum Design
4. Integration
• Organization is drawn from the world themes
from real life concerns
5. Articulation
• Can be done either vertically or horizontally

34. Guidelines in Curriculum Design
• Curriculum design committee should involve
teachers, parents, administrators and even
students.
• School's vision, mission, goals and objectives
should be reviewed and used as bases for
curriculum design.
• The needs and interest of the learners, in
particular, and the society, in
general should be considered.

35. Guidelines in Curriculum Design
• Alternative curriculum design should
consider advantages and disadvantages in
terms of costs, scheduling, class size, facilities
and personnel required.
• The curriculum design should take into
account cognitive, affective, psychomotor
skills, concepts and outcomes.

36. Lesson 3:
Approaches to
Curriculum Design
6 Features of a Curriculum:

Teacher

Learners

Knowledge, Skills, Values

37. 6 Features of a Curriculum:

Strategies and Methods

Performance

Community Partners