Curriculum transaction is the effective implementation of curriculum content based on stated aims and objectives. It involves effective planning to provide learning experiences, organizing instruction, administering plans, and evaluating implementation. Curriculum transaction bridges expectations for an educational program and enabling students to develop intended competencies. Modes of curriculum transaction refer to methods used to provide learning experiences, including face-to-face instruction and distance learning using various media. Effective curriculum transaction is important for education programs to benefit students.

1. Topic:curriculum Transaction-Meaning and Various Modes
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Arya G.I
3’rd semester
Geography
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2. INTRODUCTION
Curriculum is a written plan that drives instruction. It delineates the skills and concepts taught
and evaluated to enhance student achievement. The term “curriculum” is generally
understood as the courses or programmes of study offered by an educational institution. It is
derived from the Latin word “currere” or “to run” as it to run a race course.
Curriculum Transaction is the effective and desired implementation of the curriculum contents
on the basis of aims and objectives listed in the curriculum. Curriculum Transaction
incorporates effective planning for providing learning experiences for its learners, organization
of planning, administration/implementation of the organized planning and evaluation of the
implementations by the implementer and the experts in the relevant field.
Curriculum Transaction or Curriculum management is the process of planning and organizing
the curriculum in a particular subject area for different levels of education and continuously
monitor it while being implemented. With changing time, curriculum should also change
reflecting the needs and aspirations of the people. There cannot be a uniform curriculum for
all the countries for all the time, because education is related to social, economic and political
changes in the country. Curriculum content should be based on current information and not
on the past information that has been proved to be false or outdated and unusable. There is
therefore need for constantly changing and updating the curriculum content.

3. CURRICULUM TRANSACTION
MEANING OF CURRICULUM TRANSACTION
Curriculum transaction is effective implementation of lesson plans in classrooms. A lot of
thought goes in planning and preparing the lesson plans. Children will benefit only if the
implementation is strong, whether it be circle time, project work, subject time or music time; a
teacher’s effort should be to reach out effectively to each child in the group. Lesson plans are
prepared much in advance and usually there is a gap between preparation and
implementation. It has always helped me as a teacher to sit down at the end of my day with
the children and go through my lesson plan thoroughly for the next day. Since there is a gap
between planning and implementation, depending on the needs of the group, changes could
be required before implementing the plan.
DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM TRANSACTION
• “It is a tool in the hands of the artist (the teacher) to mould his material (the
pupil) in accordance with his ideal in his studio(the school).” –Cunningham
• “The curriculum is all of the experiences that individual learners have in a
programme of education whose purpose is to achieve broad goals and related
specific objectives, which are planned in terms of a framework of theory and
research or past and professional practice.” – G.Hass
Components
Curriculum Transaction = Planning curriculum in a subject area for different levels of study +
continuously monitoring their implementation.
Curriculum Transaction is the effective and desired implementation of the curriculum contents
on the basis of aims and objectives listed in the curriculum.
Curriculum Transaction incorporates :

4. *Effective planning for providing learning experiences for its learners,Organization of
planning,Administration/implementation of the organized planning
*Evaluation of the implementations by the implementer and the experts in the relevant field.
Some of the requirements of effective curriculum transaction are:
*Planning,Clarity of thought,Knowing how we will transact,Review of the work,Team
responsibility,Clarity of communication,Addressing different levels of children
Curriculum Transaction approaches are:
*Group work,Project work,Seminar
presentations,Assignments,Symposia,Discussions,Workshop practices,Preparation of learning
materials,Self and peer evaluation.
Need and importance of curriculum transaction
Education leads from darkness of illiteracy to brightness of intellect. Education is the right of a
human being in the world which is required to develop all of their attributes and skills to
achieve their potential as human beings and members of society. In all aspects of the
surrounding education community, the focus is on learning which strengthens the capabilities
of human being to act progressively on their own behalf through the acquisition of relevant
knowledge, useful skills and appropriate attitudes; and which creates emotions of safety,
security and healthy interaction in the human.
Curriculum is a systematic and intended packaging of competencies (i.e. knowledge, skills and
attitudes that are underpinned by values) that learners should acquire through organized
learning experiences both in formal and non-formal settings. A noble curriculum plays an
important role to the development of thinking skills and the acquisition of relevant knowledge
that learners need to apply in the context of their studies, daily life and careers.
Major emphasis should be given on effective transaction of curriculum in any educational
program. The main responsibility of the curriculum transaction lies on the teachers and
trainers who may use different types of pedagogies to create a nice academic environment in
the institution and students can be benefited in gaining knowledge and developing skills as per
industry demand. Curriculum is implemented by teachers, and depends moreover on the
quality of teaching and learning strategies, learning materials and assessment.

5. MODES OF CURRICULUM TRANSACTION
Transactional modes have essentially been of two categories, First one is face-to-face mode
and the second is distance mode.
1. The face-to-face mode refers to instructional interactions in which learners and the
teacher transact a curriculum in a face-to-face situation. This mode includes inputs like
seminars, discussions, lectures, demonstrations and any activity involving direct interaction
between the learners and the teacher. The face-to-face mode is the oldest and most widely
accepted mode. Obviously, at a time when electronic media were not available and even the
print medium was unknown, the most easily accessible channel for transmission of knowledge
and for communication was through face-to-face interaction with the teacher. With printing
and the public school system, text books became available and assumed significance. Over
the years, the print medium has provided support to oral communication with the teacher, as
the main focus in schools
2. The distance mode, as the term indicates, pertains to all kinds of interactions between the
teacher and learners in which they are not in direct contact with one another and require a
third channel or medium for contact. These include the print, audio, video, or any other
mode. Open learning systems generally utilize such modes. Due to the indirectness of the
contact or the distance between the teacher and learner, none of these media can by itself
suffice for effective instruction. They are, therefore, used in combination in order to make
experiences more 'realistic' and meaningful. Of late, more interactive media have been
designed and utilized, such as interactive satellite television or teleconferencing. The two
modes need not be mutually exclusive. Correspondence education acquired significance as an
alternative to 'teacher talk' in India, with increased availability of printing facilities. As
correspondence education widened with the emergence of open learning system, the media
of transaction were diversified to include audio, visual and audio-visual mechanisms. More
recently, interactive television has come to be used for communication of knowledge. The use
of media has resulted in new roles for a teacher: that of a designer and developer of these
media making them suitable for instructional purposes, and that of a user of these during
instruction
Curriculum Transaction is the effective and desired
implementation of the curriculum contents on the basis of the set aims and objectives.
Curriculum Transaction incorporates effective planning for providing learning experiences and
the modes in which the curriculum is transacted. Modes of curriculum transaction pertain to

6. the channels adopted for providing learning experiences to students. These act as the real
'bridge' between the expectations placed on system of education program on the one hand,
and the process of enabling students to absorb the essential competencies and skills and
actualize these expectations on the other hand.

7. CONCLUSION
Curriculum Transaction is the effective and desired implementation of the curriculum contents
on the basis of aims and objectives listed in the curriculum. Curriculum Transaction
incorporates effective planning for providing learning experiences for its learners, organization
of planning, administration/implementation of the organized planning and evaluation of the
implementations by the implementer and the experts in the relevant field.
Curriculum transaction is effective implementation of
lesson plans in classrooms. A lot of thought goes in planning and preparing the lesson plans.
Children will benefit only if the implementation is strong, whether it be circle time, project
work, subject time or music time; a teacher’s effort should be to reach out effectively to each
child in the group. Lesson plans are prepared much in advance and usually there is a gap
between preparation and implementation. It has always helped me as a teacher to sit down at
the end of my day with the children and go through my lesson plan thoroughly for the next
day. Since there is a gap between planning and implementation, depending on the needs of
the group, changes could be required before implementing the plan.
REFERENCE
• Blog of the Two Year MEd Batch of GCTE, Thiruvananthapuram
• Shenisdharan:curriculum and its modes
• http//wikipdia.in