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Crafting a Curriculum

is like writing a lesson plan

it is like making something
with
the different components
and

A CURRICULUM can be
organized :

Horizontally
Vertically

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Civics
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Horizontal
Organization
the direction of
the
curriculum
elements is
sideways

Subject: Science
Bigger topic:

Living
things
Plants
Animals

Vertical
Organization
the arrangement
or
sequence of
curricular
elements follow a

Subjectcentered
design
model

focuses on the
content of
the
curriculum
corresponds
mostly to the
textbook

Henry
Morrison

William
Harris

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A.
Subject
design

Advantages

Subject
It is easy
to deliver.
design

Complementary books are

written and support
instructional materials are
commercially available.
Teachers are familiar with
the format.

Disadvantages

learning is so
compartmentalized.
It stresses so much to the
content that it forgets
students natural tendencies,
interest and experience.

B.
Discipline
design

Discipline
focusesdesign
on academic

discipines
refers to specific
knowledge learned
through method which the
scholars use to study a
specific content of their
fields.

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Mathematics

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C.
Correlatio
n design

Correlation
links separate
subject
design

designs in order to reduce

fragmentation

Subjects are related to one

another but each subject
maintains its identity.

D.
Broad feild
design /
interdisciplinar
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Broad field design

/ interdisciplinary
was made to prevent the
compartmentalization of
subjects and integrate the
contents that are related to
each other

Learner
Centered
Design

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A.
Child centered
design

is anchored on the
needs and interests of
the child
individual who
engages with his / her
environment

One learns by doing.

Learners actively
create, construct
meanings and
understanding

Learning is a product
of the childs
interaction with the
environment

John
Dewey

Jean
Jacques
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Froebel

B.
Experience
- centered
design

believes that the

interest and needs of
learners cannot be
pre-planned.

experiences of the
learners become the
starting point of the
curriculum

Learners are made to

choose from various
activities that the
teacher provides.

learners are
empowered to shape
their own learning

In a school, different
learning centers are
found
time is flexible
children are free to
make options

The emergence of
multiple intelligence
theory blends well
with experience
centered design
curriculum.

C.
Humanistic
design

It stresses the whole

person and the
integration of
thinking, feeling and
doing.

It considers the
cognitive, affective
and psychomotor
domains.

Problem
Centered
Design

content cuts
across subject
boundaries
and must be
based on the
needs,
concerns and

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A.
Life
situations
design

emphases activities
that sustain life, enhance
life, aid in rearing
children, maintain the
individuals social and
political realtions and
enhance leisure, tasks
and feelings.

the connection of
subject matter to
real situations

B.
Core design

focuses on the
common needs,
problems, and
concerns of the
learners