It aims to ensure that all children develop the attributes, knowledge and skills
they will need to flourish in life, learning and work which will allow them to demonstrate four key
capacities , helping children to become Successful learners, Confident
individuals,Responsible citizens, Effective contributors.
Curriculum means fulfilling certain purpose or objective or
it may be bunch of lesson plans, and a delivery mechanism. Or it may be the
techniques and tools that's used in teaching like educational materials.
Actually, it's from the word "curere", a Latin
word meaning "running a race", or "race course". Curriculum
means the different kinds of action, deeds, and experiences that is provided
for students in their learning process, for the child's growth and development.
And it can be seen as a term that encompasses all planned and unplanned
experiences that is provided in an educational institution like school. It is
about anything and everything around us that provides an opportunity for
learning.
So, curriculum can be like everything that we sense around
us, we feel, that provides us some kind of experience that allows us to grow in
some ways. It is very much education institution based, and it is streamlined
and directed to fulfil certain needs of the government or the community.
Based on the needs, the curriculum is designed and
implemented accordingly. Curriculum at this micro perspective level, it is
considered more of a plan of action for learning. So, it is reduced to a formal
written document that systematically describes the course of study that is
appropriate with the educational level. It includes all the different subjects,
courses, learning objectives, skills, knowledge and values that need to be
instilled in the children and the content, learning outcomes or experiences and
evaluation formats and procedures.
Curriculum can also be seen as a framework in an educational
context that shapes and guides teaching learning process. It is a kind of road
map that is given to teachers to follow through.
There are three major questions in curriculum.
What knowledge,
creative and critical thinking skills and values are most worthwhile?
How should they be imparted to the children so that it will
bring about the experience in them?
And what kind of changes in behaviour is happening?
"Curriculum" or/ and "Syllabus"?
There is actually a source of confusion when we come to the
terms "curriculum" and "syllabus". Most often, people use
these two terms interchangeably but there is a difference between the two.
Curriculum refers to a more comprehensive educational
package involving the conceptualization, planning, designing and detailing of a
comprehensive learning program for the benefit of deploying it in the schools.
So, it is the bigger idea, the bigger goal, objective of teaching learning in
an institution. Example: Elementary school curriculum. It is based on the need
for the different kinds of knowledge, skills and values that children attending
an elementary school should possess. The subjects, formal and informal learning
and co-curricular experiences are planned, accordingly.
The components that we could find in a syllabus are
· the
objectives of the subject,
· the planned
content or the coverage of the subject matter,
· teaching
techniques and strategies,
· the learning outcome and the learning
activities
· and finally
the evaluation methods and procedures.
Children and young people need opportunities for
achievements both in the classroom and beyond, giving them a sense of
satisfaction and building motivation, resilience and confidence.
Added to this, because children learn through all of their
experiences - in the family and community, pre-school centre, nursery and
school - the curriculum aims to recognise and complement the contributions that
these experiences can make.
Lastly, the experiences and outcomes are an essential
component of curriculum and apply
wherever learning is planned. They
signpost progression in learning and set challenging standards that will equip
children to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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