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Overview of Curriculum Development Type, Principles & Process
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Vidyalaya Overview of Curriculum Development: Type, Principles & Process
While deciding on a course as a career, what we see is its curriculum. Right? The components of a good curriculum can fascinate students to enroll and make a shining career in the stream. Offering a thoughtfully designed curriculum is a basic prerequisite of a quality education. So, if you want engrossed enrollment, your curriculum portfolio must be impressive and updated. However, the curriculum development process is not as easy as it seems. It requires a lot of planning and preparation. Technology and visual aids have contributed a lot to this aspect to make this daunting task smoother. Let’s learn what is curriculum development, and other details about it. • What is Curriculum Development? • Curriculum Development is a process of planning and designing educational programs and relevant materials to meet today’s updated educational standards. This step-by-step process creates a plan for the course, involves researching and selecting appropriate educational content, designing manuals, evaluating the existing content of the program, and making the changes to achieve the aim of offering a comprehensive learning experience. An effective curriculum is related to students’ success when: • Curriculum sets measurable targets and evaluates progress with reliable assessment tools. • It is adaptable to change and modifications. • It is relevant to educational standards for each grade and content. • When it is prepared by sequential process – monthly, grade-wise, then year-wise, considering the knowledge and skills requirements as per the standard. • Curriculum development is a result of a collective process and several entities are involved in the process like: • Subject matter experts • Education experts • Curriculum program and textbook publishers
What are the Different types of Curriculum Development Models? • A Curriculum development process has major three models and any of them can be adopted. Here are the three types: • This is the most traditional approach to curriculum development that focuses on a particular subject. While doing this, one has to focus on the facts and information apt for students’ grasping age and grade. This has further subtypes: • Subject area design • Discipline design • Broad field design • Correlation design • Learner-centred Curriculum • Each learner is unique and is equipped with different characteristics. Learner-centred curriculum is based on this and allows learners to take ownership of a project. The well-regulated liberty enables students to become more active in classrooms under the teacher’s guidance. This approach has four distinct attributes: • Context • Construction • Collaboration • Conversation
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