Presented by:

Mahdi Sta
What is Curriculum?
 What is learned and what is thought, how it is
delivered. How is assessed, and resources used.

 Is what you want children to learn and what your plan

to teach.

 A curriculum is all the different courses of study that

are taught in a school, college, or university.
The content of the Curriculum
Content

What we teach

What the student is expected to learn

Play SAPACES
 -Play Space is thoughtfully and purposefully
developed.
 -Where children explore, experiment and solve
problems.
 -Materials and furnishing that invite children to figure
out what the world is like and how it works.
Play spaces For an infant /toddler
Program:
 A cozy area for books and stories.
 A small-muscle area.
 A creative expression are, an active movement
area.
Play spaces For Children three to
five years:
 Dramatic play area
 Block area
 Art area
 Book Area
 Writing area
 Math area
 Science area
 Daily Routines
Children can use their emerging skills and apply emerging concept
and idea.
Interaction and Conversation
 Communicating with members of the group or
community.
 Teachers support children in learning.
 Children rely on family members and teachers to
provide the experience.
What can teacher modifies?
-Methods of presentation:
How new information is presented to students; does the
teacher introduce the topic or do students introduce it
to each other in pair work?
-Methods of practice and performance:
What methods and/or activities are used by students in
order for them to understand the content their own
terms.
-Methods of Assessment:
How students show understanding of what they are
learning or have learned.
 Curriculum differentiation
-The focus is to involve every student in the class:
Teacher ‘s role:
 teacher:
 1. considers individual past experiences, learning styles, and preferences;
 2. develops questions and activities that are aimed at different levels of
 ability;
 3. modifies expectations for some students including different objectives
 or outcomes;
 4. provides opportunities for a variety of participation levels such as individual,
 pairs and small group activities;
 5. gives students choices in determining what methods they use for
 gathering and synthesizing information and in demonstrating their understanding
 of a concept or performance of a skill or task;
 6. accepts that the individual methods are of equal value;
 7. evaluates students based on individual objectives and progress.
 Teacher needs to adapt or modify the Curriculum so
it “fits” the children learning needs.
 Curriculum differentiation, then, is the process of
modifying or adapting the curriculum
 according to the dif different ability levels of the
students in one class.
References
 Five Curriculum outlines, Directorate for Education,
IECD,Marsh 2004
 Ong Faye, The Integrated Nature of Learning, The
California Department of Education, Sacramento,
2006
 Changing Teaching Practices, United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Paris, 2004