Syllabus Design & Curriculum Development

Syllabus Design & Curriculum Development

1. Education

   • crutial in developing a nation's personality
   • improves knowledge, skill, and moral
   • Ecuador
     • English
       • Prerequisite subject
         • From school until university
           • poor results

2. Elements that support education

   • Curriculum
   • Syllabus

3. Syllabus Design

   • Tarey Reilly proposes ten steps of practical syllabus design
     • 1. Determine outcomes
     • 2. Rank the syllabus types
     • 3. Evaluate available resource
     • 4. Rank the syllabi relative to available resources.
     • 5. Compare the lists made
     • 6. Repeat the process
     • 7. Determine a final ranking
     • 8. Designate one or two syllabus types as dominant
     • 9. Determine how combinations will be achieved
     • 10. Translate decisions into actual teaching units

4. Curriculum development

   • process to determine needs, development of aims and objectives, methods, materials, etc.
   • range of planning and implementation processes involved in developing or renewing a curriculum
   • Two models
     • Tyler Model stated four fundamental questions to design a curriculum
     • Nicholls and Nicholls describe curriculum development in four stages

5. Syllabus & Curriculum

   • different terms but closely related
   • Syllabus:
     • Beliefs: evidence of planning; planning can reduce for teaching; Ss' responsibility for learning
     • content to be covered by a given course
     • defines the goals and objectives
       • Instructional material is the instrument to fulfill the goals of the syllabus.
     • consistent with the latest approved curriculum action
       • Syllabus has 17 possible functions
     • Types of syllabuses
       • Grammatical; Lexical; Skills; Functional-notional; Content or Topical; Task based
         • It is possible to combine two types of syllabus
   • Curriculum
     • Two senses
       • courses, course work, and content offered at a school or university
       • course of studies to be fulfilled in order to pass a level of education
     • materials, teaching methods, styles and methods of assessment, facilities, learning purposes and experience and the relationship between teachers and students.