CURRICULUM-INNOVATION

1. CURRICULUM
INNOVATION

2. What is Curriculum
Innovation?
• Marsh & Willis (2007): Innovation may mean a new object, new
idea, ideal practice, or the process by which a new object,
idea, or practice comes to be adopted by an individual group
or organization.
• Henderson (1985): Planned application of ends or means, new
to adopting educational system and intended to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of the educational system.
• Michael Fullan (1989): Identified the four core changes in
educational context that shape the definition of curriculum
innovation.

3. 1. Forms of regrouping or new grouping (structure)
2. New curriculum materials
3. Changes in some aspects of teaching practices (new
activities, skills, behavioral)
4. 4. Current trends
A. Standard – based
Curriculum
Morrison (2006): Curriculum standards are different from
competencies. Standards are broader than competencies.
B. Multicultural
Curriculum
• This aims to promote cultural literacy and cultural
understanding.

4. Six Goals of Multi-cultural
Curriculum
1. Content Integration
2. Knowledge Construction Process
3. Prejudice reduction
4. Equity pedagogy
5. Empowering school culture and social structure
5 Dimensions of a Multicultural
Curriculum
1. Develop multiple historical perspective.
2. Strengthen cultural consciousness.
3. Strengthen intercultural competence.
4. Combat racism, sexism, & other forms of prejudice &
discrimination.
5. Increase awareness on the state of the planet &
global dynamics.
6. Build social action skills.

5. C. Indigenous Curriculum
• It values the importance of integrating indigenous knowledge
system of the people to the existing curriculum.
Frameworks:
1. Construct Knowledge
2. Use instructional strategies
3. Integrate contents and activities
4. Utilize community’s cultural, material and human resources

6. D. Brain-based Education
• Resnick (1987): Learners learn more if they are given
several ways to look at a problem & if they are asked to
give more than one way pf solving it.
• Sylvester (1995): Classrooms in the future may focus more on
drawing out existing abilities rather than on precisely
measuring one’s success with imposed skills, encouraging the
personal construction of categories.
• Gardner (2000): Brain exist in bodies, which in turn exist
in culture, the culture in which one happens to live becomes
an important determinant of the brain’s structure &
organization.

7. E. Gifted Education
Curriculum
• It is designed to respond to the needs of a growing number
of gifted learners & to develop gifted potentials.
F. Differentiated
Curriculum
• Differentiation is a philosophy that enables teachers to
plan strategically to reach the needs of the diverse
learners in classrooms today.
Six Steps in Planning Differentiated Learning
1. Set standard
2. Define content
3. Activate prior knowledge
4. Acquire new knowledge
5. Apply & adjust the learning
6. Assess learning

8. Framework for Selecting Activities for Differentiated Instruction
Climate Knowing the
learners
Assessment Learning
Tasks
Instruction
al
Strategies
• Nurturing
• Inclusive
• Multi-
sensory
• Simulatin
g
• Complex
• Challengi
ng
• Questioni
ng
• Learning
styles
• Thinking
styles
• Tradition
al
assessmen
t
• Authentic
assessmen
t
• TAPS
Total
group
Alone
Paired
Small group
• Brain-
based
• Constrcut
ivist
• Cooperati
ve
• Responsiv
e to the
learning
styles of
the
learners
• Developme

9. G. Technology Integration in the Curriculum
• Technology offers multiple opportunities to improve
teaching & learning & the total education system.
• Technology Integration is breaking the geographical
barriers in education.
• ICT Literacy is now fast-becoming an important form of
literacy that is important for each learner to learn &
master.
H. Outcome-based Education
• OBE is one of the dominant curriculum innovations in
higher education today.
• Spady (1993): Educational outcome is a culminating
demonstration of learning.
• Davis (2003): It includes what the students should be able
to do at the end of the course.

10. I seek changes
You seek
changes We seek
changes Man
seek changes
DEVELOPMENT
“INNOVATIONS are INEVITABLE”