Curriculum and Resources (2024)

FAQs

What four questions must a curriculum answer? ›

Curricular resources include the different kinds of materials (digital or physical) that teachers use in or for their teaching (textbooks, lesson plans, etc.) and have a significant influence on students' opportunities to learn.

Seven common criteria emerge: rigorous, rewarding, real, requires independence, rich in thinking, revealing, and reflective.

To develop successful members of the global society, education must be based on a framework of the Four C's: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative thinking.

There are seven Learning Areas under the Core Curriculum. These are Languages, Literature, Communication, Mathematics, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences.

Conclusively, According to Tyler in Aguokogbuo (2000), the rationale for education, learning skills to accomplish the objectives, learning organizing skills, and assessment/evaluation are the four basic things which are related to the development of curriculum.

Material resources are materials found in the natural world that have practical use and value for humans. Material resources include wood, glass (which comes from sand), metals, edible plants, and plastics (which are made from natural chemicals). Renewable material resources, like glass, can be re-created easily.

To create an excellent curriculum, it should be student-centered. More than likely, classrooms will contain a diverse blend of student achievement strengths and weaknesses. The curriculum should be flexible enough to differentiate and support the learning of each student.

What are the five basic essentials for curriculum? ›

Regardless of definition or approach, curriculum can be organized into three major components: objectives, content or subject matter, and learning experiences.

Every aspect of the curriculum should have a clear objective or end goal to achieve. A good curriculum is not rigid- it allows room for flexibility, monitoring and evaluation by administration. It should provide sufficient scope for the cultivation of unique skills, interest, attitudes and appreciations.

Curriculum is made up of elements which their appropriate coordination would guarantee the success of a curriculum. There is no consensus between the experts on elements of curriculum, but the most four common points of view concerning this issue are: objective, content, method and evaluation.

As mentioned earlier, the four components of a curriculum design are: (i) purpose - i.e. aims, goals and objectives, (ii) design of subject matter (iii) implementation of the learning experiences and (iv) evaluation approaches (Ornstien and Hunkins, 1988).

It also shows the interaction and relationships of the four essential phases of the curriculum development process: ( I) Planning, (II) Content and Methods, (III) Implementation, and (IV) Evaluation and Reporting.

Conclusively, According to Tyler in Aguokogbuo (2000), the rationale for education, learning skills to accomplish the objectives, learning organizing skills, and assessment/evaluation are the four basic things which are related to the development of curriculum.