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Approaches About School Curriculum

The document describes three approaches to school curriculum: 1) As a body of knowledge to transmit to students using appropriate teaching methods. 2) As a process focusing on how to teach the content through activities and interactions between teachers and learners. 3) As a product focusing on the desired learning outcomes for students and the skills and values they attain to function effectively.

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Approaches About School Curriculum

The document describes three approaches to school curriculum: 1) As a body of knowledge to transmit to students using appropriate teaching methods. 2) As a process focusing on how to teach the content through activities and interactions between teachers and learners. 3) As a product focusing on the desired learning outcomes for students and the skills and values they attain to function effectively.

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APPROACHES ABOUT SCHOOL

CURRICULUM
LESSON 2
OBJECTIVES:
• Describe the different approaches about
school curriculum
• Explain by examples how the approaches
clarify the definition of curriculum
• Reflect on how the three approaches
interrelate with each other
Ways of Approaching a Curriculum
• 1. Curriculum as a Content or Body of
Knowledge
– The focus is the body of knowledge to be
transmitted to students using appropriate
teaching method.
• Ways of presenting the Content:
– Topical approach-much contents is based on
knowledge and experiences
– Concept approach-with major and sub contents
with relatedness emphasized
– Thematic approach-combination of concepts that
develops conceptual structures
– Modular approach –leads to complete units of
instruction
Criteria in the Selection of Content
• 1. Significance- addresses the cultural context
of the learners
• 2. Validity- the authenticity of the subject
matter
• 3. Utility- relative to use and time
• 4. learnability- appropriate organization that
enables learning
• 5. Feasibility- can the subject matter be
learned within the time allowed, resources
available, expertise of the teacher and the
nature of the learners…
• 6. Interest- meaningfulness of content
Guide in the Selection of Content
• Content is commonly used in daily life.
• Content is appropriate to the maturity levels and
abilities of the learners.
• Content is valuable in meeting the needs and
competencies of future career.
• Content is related to other subject fields for
complementation and integration
• Content is important in the transfer of learning in
other disciplines.
Basic Principles of Curriculum Content

• Balance-distributed in depth and breadth


• Articulation- the connection between or
among contents
• Sequence- logical arrangement
• Integration- connectedness with other;
contents must be fused with other disciplines
• Continuity- contents should be perennial tha
endures time
• 2. Curriculum Approach as a Process
– The focus is on how to teach the content
– There are activities and actions that every teacher
and learner do together
– The intersection of content and process is called
Pedagogical Content Knowledge or PCK
Guiding Principles when Curriculum is
Approached as a Process
• Curriculum process in the form of teaching
methods or strategies are means to achieve
the end.
• There is no single best process or method.
• Curriculum process should stimulate the
learners´desire to develop the cognitive,
affective, psychomotor domains in an
individual.
• In the choice of methods, learning and teaching
styles should be considered.
• Every method or process should result to learning
outcomes which can be described as cognitive,
affective and psychomotor.
• Flexibility in the use of the process or methods
should be considered.
• Both teaching and learning are two important
processes in the implementation of the
curriculum.
• 3. Curriculum as a Product
– Focuses on what the students desire to achieve as
a learning outcomes
– The product is a student equipped with the
knowledge, skills, and values to function
effectively and efficiently.
– It is expressed in form of outcomes which are
referred to as the achieved learning outcomes.

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