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Curriculum
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.
It comes from the Latin word:
- 'Curere'
- which means 'Race course'
- which refers to the course of actions, deeds and experiences.
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.
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.
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.