Curriculum And Instruction

ourse Description: Curriculum development aims at producing a plan that directs the kind of teaching- learning experiences that both the teacher and learner can be engaged in to foster learning. Designing curriculum involves the task of organizing the four components: namely objectives (outcomes), subject matter (contents), teaching-learning experiences and evaluation procedure into a cohesive and comprehensive plan that can be implemented with minimal difficulties. Curriculum development follows certain processes or step. Popular theorists like Tyler, Taba, Wheeler and Saylor & Alexander use the term models. In this course, we will deal with the next step in curriculum development which is curriculum design. On completion of this Module, you will be able to: Define what curriculum design is; Recognize the criteria for selection of content; explain the principles of content organization; List the criteria for selection of learning experiences and compare and contrast these curricul