Reflection week 9

For week 9, the topic that we covered is Curriculum Implementation.This curriculum is all about developing curriculum. There is five components that we should consider when we want to develop the curriculum.

1. Curriculum component
2. Curriculum contents
3. How to select content?
4. How contents are organized?
5. What criteria for selecting content?

Below are the explanation about the components:

1. Curriculum components

• What subject matter is crucial to learn?
• What is essential to know to be successful citizen?
• What contents best addressed students interests and needs?

2. Curriculum contents

• Postmodernism view knowledge as dynamic and evolutionary. It is not static.
• Knowledge results from a structing and reconstructing of perceived realities.
• Knowledge is that result from environment within which human find themselves.

3. How to select content?

• It addresses to cognitive, social and psychological dimension of the individual student

- What is content?

• It is fact, concepts, generalizations, and theories which are similar to discplined knowledge.
• Non-disciplined- environment education concern the advancement of understanding.

4. How content are organized?

- Based on theories

- Based on Domains

- Should be systematic, practically, and sequenced

5. What criteria for selecting content.?

• Self-sufficiently - to maximize teaching effort and education resources, subject matters, are generalize ability.
• Significance - The knowledge that could contribute meaningfully to student
• Validity - the content selected should be authentic and not absolete or incorrect.
• Interest - must be meaningful to the child's life
• Utility
• Learnability.