Pattern of Curriculum

Child-Centered Curriculum

Child-Centered Curriculum means children take command of their own learning.

Teachers are there to provide support and facilitate the child’s learning but children determine the direction of their own learning following their natural curiosities, interests and passions.

Child-Centered Curriculum

The philosophy underlying this curriculum design is that the child is the center of the educational process.

The curriculum should be build upon

his interest, abilities, purposes and needs.

Cont......

The curriculum focuses on the whole child and integrates all of the subject areas

The day isn’t spent “clock watching” to ensure time for all subjects every day

This type of curriculum emerged from the extensive research carried on in the 20th century carried by John Dewey and his followers.

A new respect for the child, a new freedom of action, was incorporated into curriculum building in the child centered school.

Child-Centered Curriculum is hands-on, active learning Children co-create their

learning objectives and goals together with teachers. Because we capitalize on the children’s interests and empower them to take an active role, we find children are emotionally invested in their own learning. When children are emotionally invested, they are willing to explore in-depth and are able to reach deeper levels of understanding. For children, child-centered curriculum just feels like fun!

Scope

High/Scope is an “active learning” educational approach that seeks to meet a childs needs on all levels social, cognitive, physical, and emotional.

With this approach children are mentally and physically active using their whole bodies and all their senses to explore and learn about their world.

It views play as children’s work – a time when children are planning, testing, questioning, and experimenting to construct their own knowledge about people, objects, events, and ideas

Scope

Subject-Centered Design Model

Subject -Centered Curriculum

This model focuses on the content of the curriculum.

The subject centered design corresponds mostly to the textbook written for the specific subject.

Subject-Centered Curriculum

The subject-centered curriculum can be focused on

traditional areas in the traditional disciplines

interdisciplinary topics that touch on a wide variety of fields

on processes such as problem solving on the goal of teaching students to be

critical consumers of information.

Subject-Centered Curriculum

• A curriculum can also be organized around a subject center by focusing on certain processes, strategies, or life-skills, such as problem solving,decision making, or teamwork.

Advantages of Subject-Centered Curriculum

It Makes a Subject more Comprehensible. It improves memory since it allows

learners to place detail into a structural pattern.

An understanding of fundamental principles & ideas facilitates a transfer of training to similar principles.

Examples of Subject-Centered Curriculum

Students in history should learn the subject matter like historians, students in biology should learn how biologist learn, and so with students in mathematics should learn how mathematicians learn.

Refrence

• http://www.slideshare.net/argellee/child-centered-curr-ppt?next_slideshow=1

• Ahmad,M.& Mehmood,A.,Curriculum Develpment .

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