Curriculum Development

Curriculum Development

1. ECUADORIAN TEACHING CURRICULUM GUIDELINES

   • Are based on the document developed by the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as the organization’s K-12 ESL Teacher Standards (2009)
     • Focusing on real-word contexts and relationship of language forms and functions.
   • The English Language Learning Standards (ELLS) are outcomes students are expected to achieve at the end of the proficiency level in terms of knowledge and skills gained throughout the process

2. QUALITY STANDARDS OF ETC

   • Quality standards refer to a system that has passed a certain set of criteria or principles and has a standard approach to establishing quality criteria or principles
     • TESOL is organized into five domains that fit with those stated for the general curriculum and of some which are related to English language teaching and learning.

3. ANALYSIS OF WEAKNESSES OF ETC

   • Week application of Pedagogical methods and techniques
     • Obsolete Educational Curriculum
       • Low quality of Rural Education
         • Teachers with weak professional training and low academic degrees

4. ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS

   • The curriculum is designed to stimulate linguistic intelligence through language analysis and the comprehension of oral and written texts, in this way teachers are able to include tasks that have critical thinking skills.
     • Through the use of conversation, role plays and group work, learners acquire the skills needed to develop self-efficacy and morals, as well., the curriculum encourage students.

5. CURRENT UPDATING OF ETC: PROPOSAL

   • Updating a curriculum is a suggested process, that has to be done in all institutions according to available technologies, students’ context, changes and expectations of society.
   • According with the exit profile of level A1, students will show some variety in sentence structure and a range of vocabulary.