Curriculum today needs to satisfy two basic educational requirements. One it has to reflect the broader aims of education catering to the diversity of background, abilities or schools of a vast nation. Along with this, it has to provide opportunities to identify and nurture the individual differences of all the learners, even of the same age.

 

The idea of curriculum is hardly new- but the way we understand and apply it, has altered over the years. In the constructive paradigm, curriculum is viewed more as a conceptual structure for decision making rather than mere details of what is to be done in the classroom. Curriculum should guide a teacher to choose the right content, instructional strategies and assessment methods from the numerous approaches available. For curriculum workers, curriculum designing should be a journey that includes many successes and failures in the process of planning, teaching, and learning while exploring new territories to map out and conquer.

Course Description

Curriculum Design course aligns itself with a school teacher's perspective in approaching common curriculum concerns and discusses different curriculum design models which are more relevant in the current education paradigm.

 

The Module uses an experiential learning approach through group activities, role play, brainstorming sessions and reflective exercises for sensitizing teachers towards importance of Curriculum. Module will also help participants to understand about the components of curriculum analysis and relate macro curriculum issues with classroom.

 

Participants would be able to devise strategies to design curriculum according to one's own classroom's requirements.  

 

Course Objectives

Participants' will be able to-

1. understand components of Curriculum Design in the backdrop of National Curriculum Framework 2005
2. comprehend  the differences and similarities in different country's educational structure to adopt in the classrooms
3. relevance of different approaches of curriculum design in increasingly complex educational needs
4. reflect, analyse and appraise past years curriculum
5. map the content of the lessons and design meaningful learning experience    
6. evaluate and design different formats of unit and lesson plans for effective teaching
7. maximally utilize teaching learning material including textbook
8. innovate new strategies for curriculum implementation in the classroom