Education Curriculum
Curriculum Design
Subject Centered
Subject Design
Discipline Design
Correlation Design
Process Design
Curriculum Design
Learner Centered
Child Centered Design
Experience Centered Design
Radical Design
Humanistic Design
Problem Centered
Life Situation Design
Reconstructionist Design
Early Childhood Education
Child centered
multiple learning opportunties/entry points
Multidimensional education programs
Culture Based Curricula
Critical Thinking
Communication/social interactions
Citizenship
family/home partnership
Student Needs Exceptional Learners
All philosophical groups' goals is to ensure student
learning. Careful consideration to philosophies
and curriculum design is especially important when
designing individual curriculums for exceptional learners
Classroom Teachers
Classroom teacher's should be involved in the development and design of curriculums. Teacher involvement in the process development of curriculum is essential in aligning content with student needs. No curriculum will be perfect but to be effective, it must be validated by classroom teachers. Curriculum design and development should be on ongoing process meeting student needs and therefor fostering student learning.
Sources of Curriculum
knowledge
A Dicipline
with structure
methods
Extend Boundaries
Prized and Valued
Plato
Subtopic
Society
Agent of Society
Draws from Current and Future
Social Situations
Political
Eternal Truth
Looks to the Past/Lasting Truths
Religious beliefs
Psychology
How Minds Create Knowledge and learn
Learning Process
Constructing and Deconstructing Knowledge
Science
Scientific Method
Problem Solving
Metacognition
Learner as a Source
Brain Mapping Science
Construct Knowledge
Form Attitudes
Create Interest
Develop Values
Learner Source of Curriculum
Content Organization
Continuity & Sequence
Multiple experiences
Recurrence & repetition
Depth
Scope
What is required
Important Ideas
Important concepts
Intellectual processes
Integration
Relationships to concepts
Relationships to skills
Relationships to values
Shaddow Curriculum
Operational Curriculum
Hidden Curriculum
Null Curriculum
Philosophical Foundations
Progressivism: Pragmatism
Humanistic
Problem solving
Student Interest
Reconstructionism: Pragmaticism
Social Sciences
Teacher = Project Director
Current and Future trends in education
Perennialism: Realism
Classical subjects
Traditional Values
Mastery of facts
Essentialism: Idealism, Realism
Back to Basics
Focus on essential skills
Explicit Teaching