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Caryl Ken Labor Session 4
Caryl Ken Labor Session 4
• Subject Design
• Discipline Design
• Correlation Design
• Broad field design/ interdisciplinary
Learner-Centered Curriculum
1. Child-centered design
2. Experience-centered design
3. Humanistic design
Learner-Centered Curriculum
Advantages Disadvantages
• It gives power to the learners • It oftens relies on the teacher's
• The constructivist element of ability to create or select
this approach honors the social materials appropriate to
and cultural context of the learners' expresses needs
learner • Teachers may also find it
• It creates a direct link between difficult to strike an acceptable
in-class work and learners' balance among the competing
need for literacy outside the needs and interests of students
classroom
Problem-Centered Curriculum
1. Life-situations design
2. Core design
Curriculum Developments Models
1. diagnosis o need
2. formulation off objectives
3. selection of content
4. organisation of content
5. selection of learning experiences
6. organisation of learning activities
7. evaluation and means of evaluation
The Saylor and Alexander Model
Galen Saylor and William Alexander (1974) viewed
curriculum development as consisting of four steps.
According to them, curriculum is “a plan for providing
sets of learning opportunities to achieve broad
educational goals and related specific objectives for
an identifiable population served by a single school
center”
Curriculum planners begin by specifying the major
educational goals and specific objectives they wish
to be accomplished.
Four steps of curriculum development accdg. to
Saylor and Alexander