ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM

 ELEMENTS OF CURRICULUM

 

Any curriculum consists of several components: goals, disposition, duration, needs analysis, learners and teachers, exercises and activities, resources, ways of learning, skills to be acquired, lexis, language structure, and ability assessment.

  

Elements of curriculum are:

• Statement of Aims and Specific Objectives
   
  •Selection and Organization of Content

   

  •Patterns of Learning and Teaching

   

  •Program of evaluation of outcomes

   
  
   
  

Statement of Aims and Specific Objectives

 

 Aims are statements of intent. They are usually written in broad terms. They set out what you hope to achieve at the end of the project. Objectives, on the other hand, should be specific statements that define measurable outcomes, e.g. what steps will be taken to achieve the desired outcome.

 

 

 

 

 Selection and Organization of Content: 

 

 

Guiding Principles in the Selection and Organization of Content The Structure of Subject Matter Content Our subject matter content includes cognitive, skill, and affective components. The cognitive component is concerned with facts, concepts, principles, hypothesis, theories, and laws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patterns of Learning and Teaching

 

 A learning pattern is conceptualized as a coherent whole of learning activities that learners usually employ, their beliefs about learning and their learning motivation, a whole that is characteristic of them in a certain period of time

 

 

 

 

 

Program of evaluation of outcomes

 

Outcome/effectiveness evaluation measures program effects in the target population by assessing the progress in the outcomes or outcome objectives that the program is to achieve. Process Evaluation determines whether program activities have been implemented as intended and resulted in certain outputs.