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In formal education, a curriculum (/kəˈrɪkjʉləm/; plural: curricula /kəˈrɪkjʉlə/ or curriculums) is the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Other definitions combine various elements to describe curriculum as follows:
· All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside the school. (John Kerr)
· Outlines the skills, performances, attitudes, and values pupils are expected to learn from schooling. It includes statements of desired pupil outcomes, descriptions of materials, and the planned sequence that will be used to help pupils attain the outcomes.
· The total learning experience provided by a school. It includes the content of courses (the syllabus), the methods employed (strategies), and other aspects, like norms and values, which relate to the way the school is organized.
· The aggregate of courses of study given in a learning environment. The courses are arranged in a sequence to make learning a subject easier. In schools, a curriculum spans several grades.
· Curriculum can refer to the entire program provided by a classroom, school, district, state, or country. A classroom is assigned sections of the curriculum as defined by the school. For example, a fourth grade class teaches the part of the school curriculum that has been designed as developmentally appropriate for students who are approximately nine years of age.
It depends, in the States they have the common core standards, which are the reference for the standadized tests. Teachers are free to choose teaching and assessment strategies and materials as long as they achieve the standards.
In their case, all stake holders, participate, monitor and modify.
In other countries, most practioners ignore the curriculum and use textbooks instead, and stakeholders are not aware of which is which.
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It really depends on a number of factors - who do you develop a curriculum for, which subject, how long and what aims you have. Generally, you set up tasks and goals, provide list of literature, describe what you will be doing in this exact subject, what difficulties you may see on the way, develop set of tasks and exercises for students and provide the examples of exam tests
Curriculum includes every thing we do in the process of education of the students.
We may follow the following steps to develop a curriculum:
1. Make a list of every thing in the field (subject) they need to learn to progress in their future lives.
2. Get the input of educationists, experts in the field, teachers in the field, parents, and the community.
3. Get the content to be taught in the field.
4. Write the curriculum with instructions to teachers and students.
5. Review; revise, with the help of the experts, teachers, parents, community, and the students in the field.
October23,2013
Dr. Yusuf
USA.
