curriculum
studies
771
, These notes have been compiled using lecture
slides and the prescribed readings. As you go
week by week, the lecture notes will come first
and then the reading summaries will follow.
What is being examined:
Term 1:
What is curriculum including types of curriculum
Principles of curriculum design & curriculum development
PCK
Teacher as curriculum agent
Professional learning: Novice teacher
Term 2:
Purpose of National assessment protocol and types of assessment
Formative and Summative assessment
Aoki's doubling theory
Powerful knowledge: school knowledge vs everyday knowledge
Mentor
NOT for test as this has been addressed during tasks and assignments
(online submissions):
Teaching Methods
Assessment in practice including:
1. Types of questioning
2. Blooms taxonomy
3. Guidelines for paper setters
4. Sources & dimensions
I trust that these notes will not be shared.
Good luck!!!
, by Amy Rose Wilson
WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION TO
CURRICULUM STUDIES
Lecture Notes - What is Curriculum?
What teachers might understand by curriculum
The combination of subject that a school offers to learners
The learning activities that are planned by a teacher
A national curriculum such as the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement
(CAOS)
Definitions of curriculum
“A course for running” or “a chariot racing”
“A blueprint for action”
Currere – “the running of a course”
“A contextualized social process” (Cornbleth 1990)
“The stories we tell children about their past, present and future” (Grumet
1981)
Types of Curriculums
Type of Curriculum Defintion
Refers to curriculum documents, e.g. syllabuses, National
Explicit Curriculum Statements, texts, teaching and learning
materials
Informal curriculum of families, religious organizations,
Societal
occupations, and so on
What children learn from the way in which schools are
Hidden organized – how boys and girls are treated,
academic/sport competition
That which is not taught
Null
Learning opportunities denied to learners
, by Amy Rose Wilson
Type of Curriculum Defintion
Comprised of ideas offered by policymakers, school
Rhetorical
officials, administrators, or politicians
The actual curriculum that is delivered and presented by
Curriculum-in-use
each teacher
Those things that learners actually take out of the
Received classroom; those concepts and content that are learned
and remembered
What children learn through searching the Internet for
Electronic information, or through using any e-forms of
communication
The messages prevalent in and through exposure to any
Virtual
type of media
Article - Different Types of Curriculum
Leslie Wilson’s personal definition of curriculum is:
Anything and everything that teaches a lesson, planned or otherwise.
Humans are born learning, thus the learned curriculum actually encompasses a
combination of all of the above – the hidden, null, written etc.
Since students learn all the time through exposure and modeled behaviours, this
means that they learn important social and emotional lessons from everyone who
inhabits a school – peers, staff, workers etc.
They are also taught deportment, conduct and attitudes expressed and modelled
by their teachers
Many educators are unaware of the strong lessons imparted to youth by these
contacts
1) Overt, explicit, or written curriculum
What is written as part of the formal instruction of the schooling experience
May refer to curriculum document, texts, teaching materials etc. – anything
that is overtly chosen to support the intentional instructional agenda of a school
Usually confined to those written understandings and directions formally
designated and reviewed by administrators, curriculum directors and teachers.
studies
771
, These notes have been compiled using lecture
slides and the prescribed readings. As you go
week by week, the lecture notes will come first
and then the reading summaries will follow.
What is being examined:
Term 1:
What is curriculum including types of curriculum
Principles of curriculum design & curriculum development
PCK
Teacher as curriculum agent
Professional learning: Novice teacher
Term 2:
Purpose of National assessment protocol and types of assessment
Formative and Summative assessment
Aoki's doubling theory
Powerful knowledge: school knowledge vs everyday knowledge
Mentor
NOT for test as this has been addressed during tasks and assignments
(online submissions):
Teaching Methods
Assessment in practice including:
1. Types of questioning
2. Blooms taxonomy
3. Guidelines for paper setters
4. Sources & dimensions
I trust that these notes will not be shared.
Good luck!!!
, by Amy Rose Wilson
WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION TO
CURRICULUM STUDIES
Lecture Notes - What is Curriculum?
What teachers might understand by curriculum
The combination of subject that a school offers to learners
The learning activities that are planned by a teacher
A national curriculum such as the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement
(CAOS)
Definitions of curriculum
“A course for running” or “a chariot racing”
“A blueprint for action”
Currere – “the running of a course”
“A contextualized social process” (Cornbleth 1990)
“The stories we tell children about their past, present and future” (Grumet
1981)
Types of Curriculums
Type of Curriculum Defintion
Refers to curriculum documents, e.g. syllabuses, National
Explicit Curriculum Statements, texts, teaching and learning
materials
Informal curriculum of families, religious organizations,
Societal
occupations, and so on
What children learn from the way in which schools are
Hidden organized – how boys and girls are treated,
academic/sport competition
That which is not taught
Null
Learning opportunities denied to learners
, by Amy Rose Wilson
Type of Curriculum Defintion
Comprised of ideas offered by policymakers, school
Rhetorical
officials, administrators, or politicians
The actual curriculum that is delivered and presented by
Curriculum-in-use
each teacher
Those things that learners actually take out of the
Received classroom; those concepts and content that are learned
and remembered
What children learn through searching the Internet for
Electronic information, or through using any e-forms of
communication
The messages prevalent in and through exposure to any
Virtual
type of media
Article - Different Types of Curriculum
Leslie Wilson’s personal definition of curriculum is:
Anything and everything that teaches a lesson, planned or otherwise.
Humans are born learning, thus the learned curriculum actually encompasses a
combination of all of the above – the hidden, null, written etc.
Since students learn all the time through exposure and modeled behaviours, this
means that they learn important social and emotional lessons from everyone who
inhabits a school – peers, staff, workers etc.
They are also taught deportment, conduct and attitudes expressed and modelled
by their teachers
Many educators are unaware of the strong lessons imparted to youth by these
contacts
1) Overt, explicit, or written curriculum
What is written as part of the formal instruction of the schooling experience
May refer to curriculum document, texts, teaching materials etc. – anything
that is overtly chosen to support the intentional instructional agenda of a school
Usually confined to those written understandings and directions formally
designated and reviewed by administrators, curriculum directors and teachers.
