Teaching and Curriculum Design

Teaching and Curriculum Design

1. Teachers need to make decisions relating to curriculum design in every lesson. For this reason is important to make themselves these three crucial questions: Is this item worth spending time on?, How will I present this material? and What should I test?

   • Parts of the curriculum design model of teachers in language classes.
     • Content and Sequencing; it is about the content in which teachers will be focused on the course and the order of the activities will happen.
       • Two types of content: the topic of the passage and the language items which occur in the passage.
     • Format and Presentation: it is about what the learners do in the lesson, how they work following the parameters, and the order of doing the activities.
     • Needs Analysis: teachers look for the proficiency of their students taking account what they already know and what they need to know or what they want to know.
     • Evaluation: it involves making a view of the course or some aspect of the curriculum for concluding if it is good or not.
     • Environmental Analysis: it is a fundamental part due to teachers have to analyse if the activities that they prepare for the students are going to be successful taking account the local situation.
     • Monitoring and Assesment: it is about teachers looking with attenton what the students are doing, and after that analyse, identify and encourage learner's situations.
     • Principles: it is about what teachers question; if their activities will be successful and what is good or not for the learners. Therefore, teachers can looking into teaching and learning research or they just take their previous experiences.
     • Goals: student's language learning goals in an activity or a particular technique. It is important for teachears using a technique analysis which shows the application of principles of teaching and learning.
     • Curriculum Design and Learner Autonomy: learners are involved with activities guided by a course book and the teacher. Two major ways which involve the leraner's autonomy.