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The document outlines the characteristics of a good curriculum, emphasizing its need to be continuously evolving, democratically conceived, and based on community needs. It distinguishes curriculum from related terms such as syllabus and course of study, and highlights the importance of curriculum in schools as essential for achieving educational purposes. Additionally, it discusses curriculum as both a process involving stakeholder input and a product consisting of various educational documents.

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The document outlines the characteristics of a good curriculum, emphasizing its need to be continuously evolving, democratically conceived, and based on community needs. It distinguishes curriculum from related terms such as syllabus and course of study, and highlights the importance of curriculum in schools as essential for achieving educational purposes. Additionally, it discusses curriculum as both a process involving stakeholder input and a product consisting of various educational documents.

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Nature of Curriculum

Carlito C. Cabas, Jr.


Characteristics of a good curriculum
– Continuously evolving
– Based on the needs of the people
– Democratically conceived
– Result of a long term effort
– Complex details
– Provides for the logical sequence of the subject matter
– Complements and cooperates with other programs of the
community
– Education equality
– Administratively flexible
Distinction of curriculum with other terminologies

– Syllabus – content of the school subjects in the school, it is the


subset of the curriculum
– Scheme of work – breakdown of contents of what students
are expected to learn in a given period
– Course of study – a program of learning that are offered to
students-with various course contents – at the end of which
they are awarded a certificate indicating the type of course of
study the had undergone
– Lesson note – a guide for teachers to assist them in orderly
presentation of lesson
Nature of curriculum in school

– What educational purpose should the school seek to attain?


– What educational experiences can be provided to attain these
purposes?
– How can these educational experiences be organized to
achieve these purposes?
– How can we determine whether or not expected objectives
have been achieved?
Importance of Curriculum in Schools

– Curriculum is the reason for existences of the school


– Curriculum is very vital software without which building and
facilities will have nothing to do in the school.
– Curriculum is designed in order to meet the needs of people.
Curriculum as a process and as product

– Process – is a collective term that encompasses all of the


considerations about which curriculum workers ponder and
ultimately use to make choices in the development and
evaluation of a curriculum project
» Top-down
• The curriculum presented to teachers
• Curriculum adopted by teachers
• Curriculum assimilated by learners
• Evaluated curriculum
» Bottom – up
• What the society or the parents want
• Responses provided by teachers in the schools
• Collection of the responses and the effort to identify
some common aspects;
• Development of common standards and their
evaluation
Curriculum as a process and as product

• Products – include curriculum guides, courses of study, syllabi, resource


units, list of goals and objectives and other documents that deal with the
content of schooling.

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