design

• Curriculum design


  The arrangement of the curriculum elements
• Elements of curriculum design

  • Intent (aims, goals, objectives)
  • Subject matter or content
  • Learning experiences
  • Evaluation
• The elements of curriculum design are similar to the elements of lesson plans
• Macro level

  Highlights the curriculum from philosophy to the contents of different subjects
• Micro level

  Emphasizes organizing the specific contents of every subject or discipline
• Curriculum designs

  • Subject-centered design
  • Learner-centered designs
• Learner-centered design sub-designs

  • Activity/experience designs
  • Humanistic design
• Activity or experience designs


  Concentrates on activities that develop higher order thinking skills and creativity
• focus on the holistic development of an individual and also addresses the needs and nature of the learners.

  humanistic design
• Problem-centered design


  Engages students in social and environmental problems
• Core learning design


  Focuses on skills and knowledge that students need to master
• Functional literacy


  Students are willing to share their skills, knowledge, and attitudes with the community, society, and country
• Horizontal organization


  Focuses on establishing relationships and integration among subject areas
• Vertical organization


  Focuses on the spiral progression and distribution of curriculum contents by examining prerequisites
• Ways of sequencing curriculum contents

  • Simple to complex
  • Prerequisite learning
  • Chronology
  • Whole to part learning
  • Increasing abstraction
• Contextualization


  Developing new skills, knowledge, abilities, and attitudes in students by presenting new subject matter in meaningful and relevant contexts
• Localization


  Freedom for schools or local authorities to adapt the curriculum to local conditions and relate the context of the curriculum and the process of teaching and learning to the local environment
• function of curriculum design

  macro level
• function of curriculum organization

  micro level