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BY
DR.SHAZIA ZAMIR
DEPT OF EDUCATION
NUML
Curriculum
The word "curriculum" began as a Latin word
which means "a race" or "the course of a race"
(which in turn derives from the verb currere
meaning "to run/to proceed")
Components of a Curriculum
• Content Grouping and Pacing
• Assessment Products
• Introduction/Closure Resources
• Teaching Strategies
Extension Activities
• Learning Activities
Diversity
Types of Curriculum
• Subject/Teacher Centered Design
• Learner Centered Design
• Activity Based Curriculum
• Integrated Curriculum
• Core Curriculum
• Spiral Curriculum
• Societal Curriculum
• Overt Curriculum
• Hidden Curriculum
• Phantom Curriculum
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Subject/Teacher Centered Design
• The subject centered curriculum is based on
subject. All knowledge is transferred to student
through the subjects.
Objectives of Subject/Teacher Centered Curriculum
• To transfer cultural heritage
• To represent knowledge
• To impart information
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Learner Centered Curriculum
• In learner centered curriculum there is a link
between courses and children psychology.
• It is according to the interest and tendency of
children.
• It facilitates the mind of children because it
fulfills their psychological and mental
requirements.
Teachers Centered V/S Learner-
Centered Curriculum
Teacher-Centered Learner-Centered
• Focus is on instructor • Focus is on both students and instructor
• Instructor talks; students listen • Instructor models; students interact with instructor
and one another
• Students work alone • Students work in pairs, in groups, or alone
depending on the purpose of the activity
• Instructor monitors and corrects every student • Students talk without constant instructor
utterance monitoring
• Instructor chooses topics • Students have some choice of topics
• Instructor answers student’s questions about • Students answer each other’s questions, using
language instructor as an information resource
• Classroom is quite • Classroom is often noisy and busy
• Instructor evaluates student learning • Students evaluate their own learning; instructor
also evaluates
Activity Based Curriculum
• Active Learning is, in short, anything that students do in
a classroom other than merely passively listening to an
instructor's lecture.
• This includes everything from listening practices which
help the students to absorb what they hear, to short
writing exercises in which students react to lecture
material, to complex group exercises in which students
apply course material to "real life" situations and/or to
new problems.
Integrated Curriculum
• Integrated curriculum refers to a non-
compartmentalized approach, e.g.
In general science learning, as opposed to separate
subjects such as
▫ Physics,
▫ Chemistry and
▫ Biology
Core Curriculum
• ‘Core’ refers to the ‘heart’ of experiences every
learner must go through. Or
• Fundamental knowledge that all students are
required to learn in school.
• A core curriculum is a curriculum which is
considered central and usually made mandatory for
all students of a school or school system.
e.g As in mathematics all pupils need to acquire
proficiency in addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division.
Spiral Curriculum
Societal Curriculum