The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a

school or in a specific course or program.

curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to
learn, which includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are
expected to meet; the units and lessons that teachers teach; the assignments
and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations,
and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other
methods used to evaluate student learning.

Develop moral character and personal discipline.

Encourage creative and critical thinking.

Broaden scientific and technological knowledge.

Foster love of humanity.
Teach the rights and duties of citizenship
Promote respect for human right.

Aims of Elementary Education

Provide knowledge and develop skills , attitudes,values essential to personal development
and necessary for living in and contributing to a developing and changing society.
Provide learning experiences which increase the child's awareness of and
responsiveness to the changes in the society.
Promote and intensify knowledge, identification with and love for the nation and the people
to which he belongs.
Promote work experiences which develop orientation to the world of work and prepare the
learner to honest and gainful work.

Aims of Secondary Education

Continue to promote the objective of elementary education.

Discover and enhance the different aptitudes and interests of students in order to equip
them with skills for productive endeavor and or to prepare them for tertiary schooling.
Strengthen ethical and spiritual values.

Aims of Tertiary Education

Provide general education programs which will promote national identity, cultural
consciousness, moral integrity and spiritual vigor.

Train the nation's manpower in the skills required for national development.
Develop the professions that will provide leadership for nation.
Advance knowledge through research and apply new knowledge for improving the quality
of human life and respond effectively to changing society.

Products

Curriculum products or projects result from curriculum development

processes and provide the bases for instructional decisions in classrooms.

Curriculum projects include curriculum guides, courses of study, syllabi, resource

units, lists of goals and objectives, and other documents that deal with the content of schooling.
Curriculum guides "usually include details about the topics to be taught, predetermined teaching
goals and suggestions for instructional strategies "

Curriculum guidelines furnish information about predetermined learning outcomes and are generally
less complete than curriculum guides.

Courses of study or syllabi usually specify the content, the learning outcomes, and time allocations
for the various topics. Sometimes a rationale for the choices of content is included in syllabi.

Resource units typically include learning outcomes, suggestions for teaching,

sources of information, and prepared instructional units. Lists of curriculum

goals and objectives, along with their rationales, are another form of project.