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The Teacher and the School Curriculum

Curriculum Design

MODULE 6: CURRICULUM DESIGN

At the end of this module, you are expected to:


1. Identify the different curriculum designs
2. Differentiate the curriculum designs
3. Give examples of different curriculum designs

Course Module

What is CURRICULUM DESIGN?


 It considers the needs and the types of learners.
 It concerns mainly on what trends we have in the learning environment.
 It is how the elements of the curriculum are arranged to be able to facilitate learning.
The element includes the following:
Aims- It serves as the direction to achieve the intended learning outcome/s
Goals and Objectives- It is what the teacher wants to achieve
Content- it is the heart of the curriculum
Learning activities- It is something that is related to the topic for further
understanding of the learners
Evaluation- It is the last part of the curriculum for the teachers to know if the
student really understood the topic
 It is concerned with issues of making a choice of what should be the organizational basis
or structural framework of the curriculum. The choice of a design often implies a value
position.
 According to Doll (1992) says that it is a way of organizing curriculum ideas to function.
She also adds that curriculum design refers to structure or pattern of organization of the
curriculum.
The curriculum contains the following:
 A statement of purpose(s)
 An instructional guide that displays behavioral objectives and content organization in
harmony with school organization.
 A set of guidelines (or rules) governing the use of the curriculum, and
 An evaluation schemes.
The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Curriculum Design

CURRICULUM DESIGNS
1. Subject-Centered Curriculum
This curriculum structure puts a strong emphasis on instruction, teacher-to-student
explanation, direct strategies, lectures, question and answer, as well as teacher-student
discussions. It encourages memorization and repetitive practice of facts and ideas. An
example of a subject-centered curriculum is the spiral curriculum. The spiral curriculum
is organized around the material to be taught, with less emphasis on the discipline structure
itself, and more emphasis on the concepts and ideas.
This curriculum design refers to the organization of curriculum in terms of separate
subjects (e.g. Geography, Math, and History etc.)

2. Learner-Centered / Child-Centered Curriculum


It is a nonauthoritative, participation-focused curriculum model. In this design, students
have opportunities and increased responsibility to identify their own learning needs, to find,
to choose, incorporate resources, and to construct their own knowledge based on their
needs and interests. It encourages students to find their passions and paths in education
It emphasizes that attention should be paid to what is known about human growth,
development and learning. This type of design requires a lot of resources and manpower,
in order to cater the variety of needs.

According to Hilda Taba (1962), children like best those things that are attached to solving
actual problems that help them in meeting real needs or that connect with some active
interest. Learning in its true sense is an active transaction, in other words Learning by
Doing.

3. Broad-Field Curriculum
It is the collapse subjects with similar content into a larger umbrella subject. The purpose
of a broad field curriculum is to highlight relationships between subjects and to
integrate the learning experience. In the broad-field curriculum design two, three or more
subjects are unified into one broad course of study. It is actually a system of combining
and regrouping subjects that are related in the curriculum.

Here are some examples of Broad Field:


1. Language Arts – This incorporates reading, writing, grammar, literature, speech etc.
Kiswahili and foreign languages.
2. General Science – to include Natural and Physical Sciences
a. Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Physical Geography.
b. Zoology, Botany, Biology and Physiology
3. Others include:
• Environmental Education
• Family Life Education
The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Curriculum Design

CORE-CURRICULUM DESIGN
Core-curriculum is used to refer to areas of study in the school curriculum or any educational
program that are required by all students. The design focuses on the set of learning experiences
that are essential to the learners. Its purpose is to integrate and unify learning by means of
correlating subject matter. It provides students with “common learning” or general education that
is considered necessary for all.

Characteristics of Core-Curriculum Design


The basic features of the core-curriculum designs include the following:
1. They constitute a section of the curriculum that all students are required to take.
2. They unify or fuse subject matter, especially in subjects such as English, social studies etc.
3. Their content is planned around problems that cut across the disciplines. In this approach, the
basic methods of learning are problem solving using all applicable subject matter.
4. They are organized into blocks of time; e.g. two or three periods under a core teacher. Other
teachers may be utilized where it is possible.

Types of Core-Curriculum Designs


Type one:
 Separate subjects are taught separately with little or no effort to relate them to each other.
(e.g. Mathematics, Science, Languages, and Humanities) may be taught as unrelated core-
subjects in high schools.
Type Two:
 The Fused-core that is based on the overall integration of two or more subjects
Examples:
1. Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology may be taught as General Science.
2. Environmental Education – this is an area with interdisciplinary approach in curriculum
planning.
3. History, Geography, Economics, Sociology and Anthropology may be combined and taught as
Social Studies.
The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Curriculum Design

References:
Online Supplementary Reading Material
http://www.teachercertification.org/a/curriculum-design.html
https://oer.avu.org/bitstream/handle/123456789/745/EDU%2001_EN%20Curriculum%20Studie
s.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.slideshare.net/bestinenarsus1/components-of-curriculum-44241470
https://faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/e-learning/setting-learning
objectives/Curriculum_design_and_development.pdf
https://www.theedadvocate.org/edupedia/content/what-is-subject-centered-curriculum/
https://ils.unc.edu/daniel/242/CurrNotes.html

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