Analyzing the curriculum

Analyzing the curriculum

George J. Posner

Study a curriculum

Requires answering a few questions

What is a curriculum?

What are the advantages of doing it?

What are the benefits?

How to recognize it?

however

Sometimes the experts disagree on the answers

So that:

Falls down three dangerous roads

2. Follow the ideas of an authority

3. Take ideas from various experts

1. Ignore the experts

Make an unfounded decision

Limited version

Bad integration of content

Reflective eclecticism must be resorted to

To avoid this

There is no panacea in education

It should be understood that there is a wide variety of curricular alternatives

There is no answer to any problem without taking into account the particular

There are different

Curriculum conceptions

As means

As ends

Proposed learning outcomes

Teaching plans

Common Curriculum Concepts

Concurrent curriculums

In addition

stand out:

Standards

Content outline

Planned experiences

Syllabus

Scope and sequence

Study path

Textbooks

Official curriculum

Hidden curriculum

Operational curriculum

Additional curriculum

Null curriculum

Objectives assigned to grades

A plan for a complete course

List of topics to cover

List of knowledge and skills

Educational materials

Resource set

Academic, emotional, or social experiences

grouped according to a common theme

Fundamentals, themes, resources and evaluation.

Organized in outline form.

Required by all students upon completion.

Used as guides for teaching

Must be completed by students

They have been planned by the school.

Described in the formal documents

Materializes the practices of real teaching

Not recognized by school officials

It has 2 aspects:

Contents included

Learning outcomes

What the teacher really teaches

Responsibility of the students

Subjects not taught

Experiences planned outside of the formal curriculum

Contribute to the education of students

It should be seen how the other four resumes affect the official curriculum.

However

Also

Conceptual framework

Identify a group of useful categories

The classification of decisions, documents and assumptions of a curriculum

for

The best representation of the curriculum model

Tylerian logic

Is:

Conceptions within curriculum planning

Suggest

You need to answer the questions:

What educational experiences must be offered to achieve these purposes?

What educational purposes should the school seek to achieve?

How do you determine if these goals have been achieved?

How are these experiences organized effectively?

The students

The evaluation

The objectives

Teaching

The education

Production system

Process to promote learning

Apprentices

Learning sought

Achieve test scores

Understand the "anatomy of a curriculum"

It is necessary

Curriculum analysis is important

So that:

Under two tasks

The choice of curriculum

Adapting the curriculum

Determine if it is appropriate for the situation

The curricular scope for a class, school, or district

Ways they learn

Central purposes

People to whom it is addressed

It is important to find the best way to teach

In conclusion

then

Curriculum analysis

More detective than administrative work

Is:

Break down a curriculum into its components

Identify the notions that make up the curriculum

Examine the implications of ideas for the quality of the educational experience

Michell Vanessa Viasus

Karen Valentina Beltrán