what is a curriculum?
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What is a Curriculum?. Key Questions for Curriculum. What knowledge, skills & Attitudes are most useful to attain and Why? (Purpose, Valuations) How are they most effectively attained? (Pedagogy - teaching approaches/learning theories) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What is a Curriculum?
Key Questions for Curriculum
• What knowledge, skills & Attitudes are most useful to attain and Why?
(Purpose, Valuations)
• How are they most effectively attained?(Pedagogy - teaching approaches/learning theories)
• How are they most validly and efficiently assessed?(Technical)
Reflect on these Quotes
“It is not proposed that the children of the poor should be educated in a manner to elevate their minds above the rank they are destined to fill in society… Utopian schemes for an extensive diffusion of knowledge would be injurious and absurd.” (Colquhoun, 1806, writing about education in England) “We must get away from the idea that it is only the people at the top who should be thinking, and the job of everybody else is to do as told. Instead we want to bring about a spirit of innovation, of learning by doing, of everybody each at his own level all the time asking how he can do his job better.” (The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Goh Chok Tong, 1997, at the opening of the 7th International Conference on Thinking)
Major Influences on Curriculum
Curriculum
Educationalinstitutions
Practitioners
Industry
Dominanteducationalperspective
Students
Dominantpoliticalideology
“Curriculum can be seen as the battlefield of many competing influences and ideologies” (Kelly, 1995, p.149)
Curriculum Development Cycle
Needs AnalysisLearning Outcomes
Content
InstructionalStrategies
AssessmentEvaluationResources
The various curriculum components must be Aligned, which means that:Learning Outcomes (and content) must be effectively & efficiently taught through the Instructional Strategies used and accurately measured in the Assessment System.
Broad Parameters of Curriculum Design & Development
Purpose of the
curriculum
Competency standards
Target groups
Curriculum qualification
Subject matter
Purpose of the Curriculum
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Defined as the major learning goals and learning objectives of the curriculum
Educational Aims
“Human beings have potential for developing in many directions and the problem of educational aims is deciding which kinds of development should be fostered and whichdiscouraged”
Wringe, C., 1988, ‘Understanding Educational Aims’, P.43)
Target Groups
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Profiled in terms of both • Demographic• Social &
Psychological factors
Subject Matter
Subject matter can be determined through:• literature Review of the latest
findings on the field of knowledge
• Creative (but evidence based) Inferences about what might be needed in future, but not explicitly identified at present
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Competency Standards
• Competency elements• Performance criteria• Underpinning knowledge• Range and context• Evidence sources
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Curriculum Qualification
WSQ System: Seven qualifications (but six levels)
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WSQ Qualification Level Graduate Diploma HighestGraduate CertificateSpecialist DiplomaDiplomaAdvanced CertificateCertificateStatement of Attainment Minimum
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Graduate Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education
Specialist Diploma in Training Management
WSQ Level 6
Advanced Certificate in Workplace Coaching
Workplace Trainer Programme
Hosted Masters Degrees in Lifelong Learning / Training and Development
Advanced Certificate in Training
& Assessment
Hosted Bachelor of Training
Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education (DACE)
Aligned Professional Doctorate Programs linked to IAL Research
WSQ Level 5
WSQ Level 4
WSQ Level 3
WSQ Level 1 & 2
National Training and Adult Education Professional DevelopmentFramework - Qualifications Roadmap