FORWARD DESIGN

Content (Process/Outcomes)
 Language forms
o Choices
o Predict
 Target situations
 Subject area content
 Content based instruction
 Goal, Role, and Situation
 Empirically sound

CENTRAL DESIGN
Learners/Learning (Process/Outcomes)
 Task based language leaning

BACKWARD DESIGN
Outcomes (Content/Process)
 Learner’s situation
 Target situation
 Needs Analysis
o When you design the curriculum, you must know what are your student’s
situation (Hatchinson and Waters)
o Student’s Profile (Necessities, Needs, Wants)
 Needs – what students lack
 Wants – what students prefer
 Necessities – what they need to reach the target situation
o English for Specific Purposes
o English for Academic and Professional Purposes

CURRICULUM ANALYSIS
600 words or less excluding the list of references
1. Your context as a teacher/vision as a teacher
a. Level/subject/type of learners/school you are teaching
b. Vision of the school
2. The selection of the outcome (learning/performance)
a. Choose 1 outcome
b. How are students are expected to learn this outcome
3. Its articulation in your curriculum
a. Lessons that you implement
4. Its implementation in your curriculum (lesson design, implementation and evaluation)
a. How are lessons designed/implemented/evaluated or assessment
5. Evaluation (extent of the outcome’s implementation)
a. Is it effective or not