My Reflection on Our Group assignment

My Reflection On Designing Curriculum

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This is my reflection on the subject of Curriculum and Pedagogy. During I studied the subject, to do the assignment of individual tasks in a blog, then  the second task is in the group that is designing the curriculum.

When designing the curriculum, I learned how a teacher should strive to produce a curriculum that can be implemented not only as a student but as an activity for children learning content.
The first stage is I need to have expert groups and finally in my group there were only two members of group which is my own and also Nur Amira Binti Rojumin.

Step of designing:

• Briefing
• Find Sources to get information such as through book, articles, and website
• Identify what our aim, goal and objective in provide the curriculum.
• Identify on how to implement such as content, what the appropriate approaches we want to use in our curriculum
• Through lecture session, we try to understand and find out more of information of curriculum theory and practice
• Gathered the information obtained to ensure that they are interrelated
• Given part for easy to finish the curriculum design
• Discuss the part we have done for evaluate the appropriate of the curriculum, or should enhance the curriculum design.
• After finish all step, we will submit our assignment group.

This is the simple step our group use and plan. We try do the best in our assignment even there were only two members in the group but we happy do and cooperate together. For me, through this assignment,  I was learned about the important of planning instruction, understand of children need and interest and also the society and cultural, then I know the important of foundation of curriculum which being our referring on selected the content, approach, method, and how to evaluate our curriculum for achieve our goal in education for young children, especially.

My Reflection Week 8

Reflection Week 8

Topic 7: Curriculum Theory and Practice

In this topic which explain under the article the advantages and disadvantages of four ways of approaches based on curriculum  theory and practice.

Four Ways:

• Curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transmitted

- The word 'syllabus' from the Greek Language

- In Malaysia education, the examination such as UPSR,  PMR, SPM, STPM, Practicum) to evaluate students development.

• Curriculum as product which is as an attempt to achieve certain ends in students as a product.

- The real purpose of education is to bring about significant changes in the students pattern of behavior. It is also will change children behavior such as from they did not know how to do something, then after the lesson they will know how the process.

Advantages:

- systematic of learning

- Also has considerable 'organizing power' which is children learn from the curriculum.

- Objectives of this ways or approaches is focus on change of children behavior.

Disadvantages:

- Almost in overall focus on children behavior

- Children develop their behavior through curriculum and difficult for them to explore.

- Successful or not depends on the children achievement 

- Difficulties of measurement the children behavior.

• Curriculum as a process

- Seen as the interaction between teachers, students and knowledge.

- It is also about what actually happens.

Stenhouse on Curriculum

- In planning:

• selection the content
• develop teaching strategy
• principles for the making of decisions about the sequence which is choose subject or content in thematic approaches.
• Diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of individual students and also taught how to enhance them after the analysis.

Empirical study 

• Evaluate progress and development of students.
• Evaluate the teachers for more masterly in course such as a training.
• Implementing curriculum in varying school context, students context and environment.
• Compare with other school for enhance the curriculum and how to achieve the goal.

Disadvantages of curriculum as a process:

• depending more in objectives
• place thinking at its core and treat students.
• High concern on exam and children assessment which will affect of children learning.
• Process learning depend on quality of teacher to achieve the goal.

• Curriculum as a Praxis which is select approach to implement the curriculum.

- The pedagogy goes beyond the learning experiences of the learner.

- Always identify children reflection.

• Curriculum in context

- What actually happens in classrooms, an ongoing social process comprised of the integration  of students, teachers, and knowledge  Milleu' (1990.5)

- In contrast, Stenhouse defines curriculum as the attempt do describes what happens in classrooms rather than what actually occurs.

My Reflection Week 7

Reflection for Week 7 : 

Topic 6 : Social Foundation of Curriculum

In this topic was discussed about the historical foundation of curriculum. This topic is most important for us in create and design of curriculum because as a teacher, not only focus on teaching and learning methods or what we want to implement but it is also must explore more about the society of students. Before design the curriculum, we must identify what the society and cultural in the school and then we know what the appropriate curriculum will we implement and what the new exist in the school which based on children needs and interest.

Historical Foundation of Curriculum:

• Franklin Bobbit
• Werret Charters
• William Kilpatrick
• Harold Rugg
• Hollis Caswell
• Ralph Taylor

Social Foundation of Education:

• Affect and shapes school on their curricula
• Should address diversity, explosion of knowledge, reform for all to reflect a preserver the culture of society.
• Society should also consume the change brought about by the formal institution called school. This is more about the discipline, rules and approach which teacher will apply for children.

Influenced of society & culture

• Related with the inhibit change through tradition
• Rate and direction of change
• correspond to social change
• Apply pressure through society demand

Society Change:

• Science and technology which is from exploration and experiment.
• Improve communication such as the other language will learn in school curricula such as English language.
• Population explosions
• Social mobility
• Value crisis
• Subject matter related to event such as national day, ethnics celebration and others.
• Accountability