APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DESIGN

APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DESIGN THE SUBJECT-CENTERED CURRICULUMThe subject-centered curriculum is organized on the basis of separate and distinct subjects. Each of these embodies a body of knowledge and skills. The learner is expected to acquire this body of knowledge and skills and is supposed to apply them in concrete settings.THE SEPARATE-SUBJECT CURRICULUMOrganizing curriculum elements according to narrow-subject divisions evolved from mans first attempts at ordering learning.THE BROAD-FIELDS CURRICULUMUnder this plan, lessons from several specified areas are offered in one general course to facilitate the integration and more functional organization of subject matter. At the elementary level social studies consist of geography, history, civics, community problems, and Filipino family customs and traditions. Health and Science includes personal hygiene, community health, conversation, safety education, ecology, etc. the language arts combine language, spelling, reading, phonics and writing skills in the secondary school curriculum. The science courses should be balanced between biological and physical science.

CORRELATONThis kind of organization has the advantage of forcing the teachers from different fields to plan together.THE INTEGRATIVE OR ACTIVITY-CENTERED CURRICULUMIn this approach, the scope and sequence are found in the child himself. One type of experience may promote sequential learning for one individual and not for another.THE CORE CURRICULUMThe core curriculum prescribes common learning in social integration of all students. It seeks to gear he learning to the needs of the students by relating learning to living thereby enhancing the integration of different experiences. It is an attempt at establishing the right mix of educational experiences.

THE CHILD-CENTEED CURRICULUMThe philosophy underlying this curriculum design is that the child is the center of the educational process. Thus, the curriculum should be built upon his interests, abilities, purposes and needsThe Problem-Centered CurriculumThe problem-centered curriculum is thought of as the framework in which the child is guided toward maturity within the context of the social group it assumes that the living, children experience problems. Enable children to become increasingly able to attain full development as individuals capable of self-direction and become competent in assuming social responsibility.The Human-Relations CenteredMuriel Crosby, an advocate of the human relations-centered curriculum, maintains that human relations are learned early in life, and that they do not develop adequately through happenstance nor through osmosis, but only through deliberate planning by the teacher. She avers that there is no conflict in emphasizing as equally valuable both achievement in human relations learning and achievement in traditional learning simply because each supports the other and that neither comes to fruition without the other.SPECIAL CURRICULAR PLANSThe Winnetka McDade PlanThe Dalton Plan or Contract PlanTeam TeachingThe Self-Contained Classroom PlanD.1. The Complementary Self-Contained Classroom PlanD.2. The Partially Self-Contained Classroom Plan

The Non-Graded Curriculum PlanMultiple Tracks Plan