There are two broad categories of curriculum types: the product model which focuses on grades and finished results, and the process model which focuses on learning development over time. When developing a curriculum, both models need to be considered. Curriculum development aims to implement instructional strategies and organize methods to achieve optimal student learning and development. Teachers are responsible for ensuring their lesson plans meet student needs, curriculum outcomes, and use current materials, as well as demonstrating content knowledge, understanding students, selecting strategies, resources, designing coherent instruction, and assessing learning.
There are two broad categories of curriculum types: the product model which focuses on grades and finished results, and the process model which focuses on learning development over time. When developing a curriculum, both models need to be considered. Curriculum development aims to implement instructional strategies and organize methods to achieve optimal student learning and development. Teachers are responsible for ensuring their lesson plans meet student needs, curriculum outcomes, and use current materials, as well as demonstrating content knowledge, understanding students, selecting strategies, resources, designing coherent instruction, and assessing learning.
There are two broad categories of curriculum types: the product model which focuses on grades and finished results, and the process model which focuses on learning development over time. When developing a curriculum, both models need to be considered. Curriculum development aims to implement instructional strategies and organize methods to achieve optimal student learning and development. Teachers are responsible for ensuring their lesson plans meet student needs, curriculum outcomes, and use current materials, as well as demonstrating content knowledge, understanding students, selecting strategies, resources, designing coherent instruction, and assessing learning.
There are two broad categories of curriculum types: the product model which focuses on grades and finished results, and the process model which focuses on learning development over time. When developing a curriculum, both models need to be considered. Curriculum development aims to implement instructional strategies and organize methods to achieve optimal student learning and development. Teachers are responsible for ensuring their lesson plans meet student needs, curriculum outcomes, and use current materials, as well as demonstrating content knowledge, understanding students, selecting strategies, resources, designing coherent instruction, and assessing learning.
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Types of curriculum development
Curriculum development involves the implementation of
different types of instructional strategies and organizational methods that are focused on achieving optimal student development and student learning outcomes.
Current curriculum types can be broken down into two
broad categories: the product model and the process model. The product model is results-oriented. Grades are the prime objective, with the focus lying more on the finished product rather than on the learning process. The process model is more open-ended, and focuses on how learning develops over a period of time. These two models need to be taken into account when developing a curriculum.
Each course leader at an (higher education) institution
will have guidelines, principles and a framework that teachers are required to reference as they build their lessons. Teachers are responsible for ensuring that their lesson planning meets the students’ educational needs, the desired outcomes of the curriculum and that the materials used are current and comprehensible. But besides all the expected aims and outcomes of curricula teachers do a great job when they:
demonstrate knowledge of content;
demonstrate the knowledge of students; select suitable instructional strategy goals; demonstrate knowledge of resources; design coherent instruction; assess student learning.