Curriculum

Development

Elements & Components of

Curriculum
BY: SOBIA MUNIR AHMED
 Basic curriculum Concepts: Learning, Types and Foundations
Curriculum Defined
Persons Interviewed
Elementary Grades Teacher
School Principal
College Teacher
Student Teacher
Non-Education College Student
What is curriculum to you?
Curriculum is the sum of all the
experiences provided or by the school in
its education of children.
Curriculum deliberately planned by the
school. There is always relationship
between the in-and-out of the school
experiences of children.
Curriculum is broadly defined as the
totality of student experiences that occur
in the educational process. The term often
refers specifically to a planned sequence
of instruction, or to view of the student’s
experiences in terms of the educator’s or
schools’ instructional goals.
Curriculum is a listing of subjects to be
taught in school.
Curriculum is compilation of knowledge
that can be used/taught by the
professionals.

Comments: Everyone has their own definition of Curriculum. There are

similarities if each of their answers. They are talking about more
experiences in each learner.

Elements, Components of Curriculum

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Lesson Plan: A CURRICULUM?
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1. What are the objectives of the lesson plan?
The objectives of a lesson plan are taken from the curriculum
according to the subject and grade. The term objective used to be
applied before the 2012 national curriculum but it has been revised
and re-read as SLO means Students Learning Outcome.
Grade II Skill- Writing
SLO: Describe persons/objects in a picture by writing describing
words. Ref: 2.2.3 Writing Skill, Curriculum for English language
Grades ECE - XII 2016 Sindh

 The objectives of the lesson plan are to use simple adjectives

to describe persons, objects, animals and places.

2. What is the subject matter content?

The teacher will write on the board the adjectives to teach students
simple adjectives with meanings and then ask them to find simple
adjectives from the sentences.
Sheet- 1
Activity: Underline adjectives and rewrite them in your notebook
Sentences.
1. I have a red car.
2. She is a cute girl.
3. My father is a tall man.
4. Mithoo is a beautiful bird.
5. Karachi is a big city.
After doing the activity, the teacher will ask students to use these
adjectives in their sentences.

 The subject matter content is also using simple adjectives in

describing nouns. (Persons, animals, objects, and places.)

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3. What strategies or methods of teaching are utilized?
The 21st-century skills are completely successful in the
modern era of education. These 4Cs are involved in each skill
of teaching and learning. This makes students as well as
teachers modern, communicative, collaborative, creative and
critical thinker. Through this, the teachers are well-equipped.
In all the skills critical thinking comes first sight when a
teacher involves students to collaborate while communicating
to create a masterpiece. This all is the work of a teacher to
arrange the activities accordingly.
 The strategies or methods utilized are the 4c’s of the 21st
Century learners. The communicative, collaborative, critical
thinker, creativity/innovative.

4. What evaluation period she used is a short quiz?

The short quiz evaluation period is usually taken 30 or more
minutes for early classes. But overall this depends.

5. Do the four components is fit or match with one another?

Explain.
Yes. This indeed is the matter of teaching and learning of the
modern era and these 4Cs are thought compulsory in this era to
nurture learning. Students need some mater to think over critically
in groups to develop their understanding in collocation and with
communication. This all will bring up creativity as the production
of teaching and learning.
 Yes, the four components fit or match with one another. In
this lesson plan there are objectives, subject matter, methods
as well-as evaluation.

6. Can you consider a lesson plan as a curriculum? Why?

This is the core part of the curriculum due to its SLOs, teaching
approaches, methods and techniques. Today’s curriculum addresses
4Cs and everything that comes as a matter of teaching and learning.

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 Yes, I can consider the lesson plan as a curriculum because
this is a written types of curriculum prepared by the teachers
for the students to learn.

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