Curriculum

Curriculum

1. It is an 'academic plan'

   • which includes the purpose, content, sequence, instructional methods and resources, evaluations approaches, etc.
   • It is the What?, Why? and How? of education.

2. It comes from the Latin word:

   • 'Curere'
   • which means 'Race course'
   • which refers to the course of actions, deeds and experiences.

3. This plan of action for learning

   • is reduced to a written document
   • that systematically describes the course of study.
   • It also includes all the different subjects and courses.

4. It can be divided into two perspectives

   • Macro-level: it is everything around us that provides an opportunity for learning and allow us to grow.
   • Micro-level: It is rather an institutional-based to fulfill the needs of society.

5. Differences among a curriculum, syllabus and lesson plan.

   • A curriculum is a project which involves conceptualization, planning, designing of a learning program.
   • A syllabus is a subset of the curriculum, it specifies the object of the subject, teaching strategies, evaluation procedure, etc.
   • A lesson plan is a specific procedure of the content meant to be taught within a period of time.