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Curriculum provides structure for educational programs and helps
to organize the important concepts and competencies that need to be made
available to students. Topics you will be addressing for this exercise
include:
- Curriculum,
What is it?
- Definition and
approaches to curriculum
- Curriculum as
process versus product
- How do the
courses or lessons we teach fit within the context of the larger
curriculum?
- Factors
impacting curriculum/program plans
- Program
planning, what does it mean? how is it similar to or different
from curriculum?
- Who are the
players? Who cares about curriculum?
1.Write your own
definition for the term "curriculum."
2. With a partner or
partners, review a variety of text definitions for the term
Curriculum.
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What are the major
differences in the definitions you find?
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Which definition (or
combinations of definitions) did you like best?
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Which do you find
most useful?
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Which definitions do
you think are most appropriate for your work?
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How does your
written definition compare?
3.
With a partner or partners, each
share your own written definition and your preferred curriculum
definition from the published definitions. What do you see as the major
differences in these definitions?
4. Do you have a good
understanding of the curriculum from your own undergraduate program or a
program you are currently working in? For example, are you familiar
with the terminal objectives (expected competencies students have when
graduating from a program) in your own educational programs (whether a
student or teacher in these programs). The Terminal Objectives for the
Graduate Program? How will you learn more about curriculum in the
program you participate in?
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