Orientation of English Curriculum

CLASSROOM NORMS
Maintain discipline in the class. Dont speak without taking the permission of the resource person. Raise your hand to get permission to say or share something. Dont interrupt anyone while speaking. Converse in English without hesitation as the medium of communication throughout the session will be English. Be relevant to the topic during discussion. Behave as a learner not as a critic. Mobile phones must be on silent mode.

SESSION OBJECTIVES
After attending this session, the participants will be able to: 1. Identify the difference between Curriculum and Syllabus. 2. Identify the competencies, standards, benchmarks and SLOs given in the national curriculum of English. 3. Tell the competencies of the given SLOs. 4. Recognize different text types. 5. Find a variety of text types in different textbooks.

What is Curriculum?

What is the difference between Curriculum and Syllabus?

What is a curriculum?

General statements about learning, learning purpose, evaluation, and role relationships of teachers and learners. Collection of learning items (syllabus) and suggestions about how these might be used in class.

How should be the curriculum of English?

Aims of the national curriculum of English

The new curriculum aims to provide holistic opportunities to the students for language development and to equip them with competencies in using the English language for communication in academic and social context.

Organization of the curriculum framework

Developmental Grades Level 1 2 3 4 5 I-II III-V VI-VIII IX-X XI-XII

Curriculum Development Process

Organization of the curriculum framework

Competency
(A key learning area) 1. 2. 3. 4. Reading and thinking skills Writing skills Oral communication skills Formal and lexical aspects of language 5. Appropriate ethical and social Development Further define competency. Each competency has different number of standards Further elaborate standards. A benchmark progresses through developmental levels. SLOs are built on the description of the benchmarks. Each BM has different number of SLOs.

Standards Benchmarks (BM) Student learning outcomes (SLOs)

PAIR WORK
TIME ALLOWED:5 MINUTES

Read the SLOs given in the worksheet and write the relevant competency name.

Lesson plans ?
format need of books

Glossary?

TEXT TYPES
See different types of text types in the hard copy.

GROUP WORK TIME ALLOWED:10 MINUTES

Identify a variety of text types in the given textbooks. Work in group and after the given time, a group leader from each group will come in front of the class and tell which text types that group found in the textbooks.

SUM UP
Curriculum Competency Standard Benchmark SLOs Text Types

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