UNIT 6 :

CURRICULUM
ADAPTATION
CURRICULUM ADAPTATION

- A process of adjusting the existing curriculum to

meet the diverse needs of learners of all abilities.

- A strategy to strengthen instructional coherence by

aligning the curriculum with supports for teachers,
to implement the curriculum and assess learning to,
monitor students progress, by developing an
integrated.
 MODIFYING THE NATIONAL
CURRICULUM

- ZingaMobeki reviewed the new

National Curriculum for Social
Studies. He then outlined his planed
for the new term. Having identified
distinctly different levels of students
in the class, he formulated different
objectives according to the needs of
each group.
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS
* THE OFFICIAL CURRICULUM

- Inmost countries there is a national

curriculum or curriculum outline. Each teacher
should obtain a copy of the Official Curriculum
from the ministry of Education, or the National
Authority. It is the required guide for
developing lesson plan, to ensure consistency
in the level and quality of education that
students receive.
 Sample Curriculum
- Health and Family Life Education
THEMES CONCEPTS SKILLS RECOMMENDED INTEGRATION
STRATEGY AND INFUSION
LINKS
1. Self-Development a Parish, Institution, Giving directions and Read and discuss Reading and
Goal in Life Location, Expectation, location meeting appropriate section of the Comprehension
Behavior, career, expectations behaving text. Do the exercise
career path appropriately research activities which follow:
careers Use appropriate activities
for reinforcement.

2. Values for growth Values, Being Living by positive values, Students can examinee Reading and
and Development Industrious, national Doing assigned tasks, their own career goals, Comprehension
Holidays, Special days Celebrating Holidays and and make suggestions on
Special Days how they can be
achieved.

3. Interaction for Interaction, Higher Getting along with others, By brainstorming, Reading And
Social Development Being, Principles, Worshipping a higher teachers can learn of the Comprehension
Communication, Being, Communication, problems which exist Maths
Conflict, resolution Conflict Resolution within the community
 MODIFYING THE CURRICULUM

- This modification must be based on the knowledge the teacher has of the
students, their parents, and their behaviour within the community, as well
as the specific needs of the community.
- In multi-grade teaching, it is necessary to adapt the national curriculum to
the needs of the various learning groups within your class.
- An official curriculum is provided as part of the normal teacher training
process. For the official curriculum to be effective within multi-grade
setting, the official curriculum should permit adaptation to local situation.
- To do this, certain themes, units or topics, can be selected to enable, the
planning of common activities foe a cluster of grades or groups of pupils.
Based on these selected items, you can the plan the graded activities or
assignments to suite different levels.
• Below are Important suggestion on multi-grade curriculum development, and/or
modification. The following steps should be undertaken for each grade level.

1. Clarify the overall goal, bearing in mind the teacher’s strengths and
weakness, the needs of the community, the desires of the parents, and
the requirements of the national curriculum.
2. State the learning objectives, i.e. what the students will be able to do
upon completion of each stage.
3. List the topics and sub-topics.
4. Outlined the overall strategy, and methods of teaching that will be used.
5. Identify the resources such as textbooks, instruments, etc.
6. Describe the methods that will be used to measure achievement.
7. Develop materials such as exercise, tests, etc.
 How to Arrange the Given Curriculum
- A local level working group would have to be organized. This group may be a group of
practicing educators and education officials working with curriculum development
specialists, community members, or any other group that is thought to have the
expertise, and be able to contribute to an effective curriculum. The working group will
have to study the National Education Policy, to decide whether the adaptation of the
curriculum will be based on:

 Annual objectives and guidelines for all subjects;

 Annual objectives and guidelines for some subjects only, such as
mathematics;
 Objectives attainable after a number of years, for example for sets of two
consecutive years (grad 1 and 2, grade 3 and 4, etc.) or lower primary and
higher primary only (e.g. grades 1 to 4 and grades 5 to 7).
 Objectives to be achieved at the end of the primary school course only.
• Then it can be decided how far the work of pupils in
one grade can be combined with that of pupils in other
grades.

• In the first case, the pupils of different grades have to

learn different topics at the same time. In other cases,
it is possible to take several grades together and deal
with the same topic, taught in rotation, so that all
pupils are exposed to all required topics by the end of
the school year.
 THANK
Reporters: YOU!
ROMARAOG KIRSTEN CLAIRE S.
TANAY MARY ANN

TAMPOCO DOMINGO L.
Instructor:
ROY RANDOLPH QUIÑONES