Topic 5
Curriculum Design
Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone..In the sixth week, I have been studying the topic of curriculum design. This topic is a topic that is very important for our group assignments because this topic has been discussed how and what to do before and during curriculum design appropriate and meet the requirements of the course we have chosen. Through this topic, various criteria must be so designed curriculum is well planned and achieve the implementation.
This topic will also discuss how we should formulate the elements contained in the curriculum into a substantive entity. In drafting the curriculum should make a list of the need to ensure that every important thing that needs to be made and identified and that should be implemented at once can make sure we can fulfil any order or plan implementation.
Among the elements - elements that should be included in curriculum design are:
A) Basic Curriculum Components:
1) Curriculum aim, goals and objectives
- This is the important thing must be applying in curriculum design. Before designing the curriculum, we must identify the objectives and goals of the curriculum we create something. It's very important because without goals and objectives, it is such a thing without direction and no milestones to be achieved.
2) Content
- This part is also about what the subject matter we want to apply in our curriculum. This is related with what core or strand we want use or implement in our curriculum of early childhood which is the course of our group chosen.
3) Learning Experience
- This is about the strategies of implementation such as what the instructions, activity and resources which will employed.
4) Evaluation
- This component is about how to observe , classified and evaluate the curriculum which are implementation. For example, by using checklist or anecdotal record to observe children development and classified the appropriate component to evaluate the children development.
B) Theoretical Framework
- Theoretical framework is refer to all of the basic curriculum component are related and must are linked to ensure all of the component are interrelated.
C) Source of Curriculum Design
1) Science as a source
- In science, various of knowledge which have to explore, problem solving, process and also the reality learning.
2) Society as a source
- Curriculum is an agent of society and design to serve the broad social interests of society.
3) External and Divined source
- Should be intended to perpetuate society
4) Knowledge as a Source
- One of the prime sources of curriculum such as disciplined knowledge is unique and undisciplined knowledge is more refer to training.
5) The learner as a source
- Identify the learners needs, emphasized "learning by doing", based on cognitive research.
D) How to consider the curriculum??
1) Scope
- breadth, content, topics, and learning experiences, integration and interrelated of knowledge within the curriculum.
2) Sequence
- implementation of curriculum in vertical relationship and by arrange the part. For example, from the simple, medium then to complex task are given. It si also continuity and have a chronological.
3) Articulation
- lost knowledge which is just taught but not related to other learning or lessons. It is also an inter-relatedness of various aspects of the curriculum.
4) Balance
- Appropriate weight be given to each aspect of the design.
5) Representative curriculum design
- Student centered which is student's discover.
- Learner centered is based on student live emphasized of needs, interest and empowerment.
- Problem centered is focuses on problem of living and society such as work, oral work, critical thinking, project, experiments, demonstration.
