The document outlines a community-based curriculum designed by Priti Kalsia, emphasizing the importance of student and teacher engagement in real-world societal issues. It encourages an activist model where students work collaboratively to solve community problems, enhancing their citizenship and social skills. The role of teachers is pivotal as facilitators, while assessments involve both students and peers in evaluating learning outcomes.

1. Community based Approach of
curriculum
Prepared by
Priti Kalsia
Assistant Professor
Malwa Central college of education, Ludhiana

2. Meaning
• It is meant to reach out beyond the classroom
and into the community where the world can
be changed by students and teachers.

3. The goal of the curriculum
• The curriculum is based on societal issues
• and the goal of the curriculum is to explore
and solve those issues.
• “Young people are at a formative, idealistic
stage of their life, and they need to learn that
they can and should make a difference in the
world” (Ellis, 74).

4. Activist model
• This is very much an activist model, where
students are encouraged to be leading
activists in their community where life
problems, community affairs, and real-world
problems exist.

5. Emphasis
•The main focus of the SCC is the
group and group action.
•The SCC curriculum is a problem-
solving curriculum, and these
problems are to be solved through
the participation and efforts of the
whole group.
•Students work to find the social
relevance of their efforts and how
they can improve their citizenship
by the projects they take on.

6. Role of teacher
• In the SCC teachers
have a very important
role.
• to help students achieve
their goals.
serve as facilitator:
organizing group efforts

7. Role of teacher
• helps children develop their social skills
• In creating a climate for collaboration and
team building.
• responsible for turning their class into a
problem-solving unit.
• responsible for making connections with
community members

8. Student’s role in the Society-Centered
Curriculum
• Students are responsible for being aware of
the world around them
• issues that impact their life.
• Cooperation
• Team work
• Active participation
• To make the community a better place

9. Learning environment
• Democratic
• Community as laboratory

10. Assessments in the Society-Centered
Curriculum
• focus around the students’ efforts and
outcomes
• on their ability to apply their knowledge and
skills

11. • Types of SCC assessment include: written work,
observations, presentations, informal discussions
and questions, project designs, and final products.
• Teachers are not the only ones involved in the
assessment process, students and peers are also
actively involved.
• Students are given the chance to create their own
rubric which the teacher can use to assess their
learning.

12. Benefits
• Increases students awareness of social issues
and current events

13. Fosters positive social interactions
Fosters the social skills

14. • Emphasis on leaving the world a better place
through group problem solving

15. • Engages students in hands on learning
experiences