A framework of course development processes

A framework of course development processes

1. Need Assesment

   • What are the students needs?
   • Involves seeking and interpreting information about syudents
   • Help the teacher make choices as to what to teach
   • Is divided in :
     • Planning stage
     • Teaching stage
     • Replanning stage

2. Determining goals and onjetives

   • Clear goals, objectives ,give teacher a basic for determining which context and activities are appropiate
   • Analysus of students needs
   • find way to conceptualizes context as a teacher

3. Conceptualizing context

   • Many teachers have experiences in ther own learning
     • Grammar
     • Pronunciation
       • For language teachers , the posibilities for what to include in a syllabus opened up with the advent
     • Vocabulary

4. Selecting and developing materials and activities

   • Organization of content and activities- two principles are “building and recycling.”
     • Recycling- students encounter previous materials in new ways.
   • Building from the simple to the complex, for instance to learn how to write a narrative before writing an argumentative essay

5. Organization of content and activities

   • organize a course
     • matrix
       • compiling a list of possible activities and then decide what to do depending on the students needs
     • cycle
       • organize it by dividing the class into sections-discussion, group work

6. Evaluation

   • Evaluate the course assesing students, profiency, progress or achiviement
     • Why does one evaluate?
       • Teaches required to use certain methods of evaluation
     • what can be avaluate?
       • Analysis of students needs or backrounds
     • Who evaluates?
       • teachers and students are the principal evaluation

7. Consideration of resources and constrains

   • The givens that a teacher begins to make sense of processes such as needs assesments and material selection
   • Teachers carry their experience iver from one context to the next and being able to anderstand what has been seccesful and why can provide a foundation for panning a course