FRHD 2040 Chapter 4: CH4
1 Jun 2018
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CHAPTER 4
Curriculum Design
• Select objectives, select and create content, choose appropriate learning experiences,
determine the most appropriate sequence for the learning activities, and determine how to
assess hildre’s groth ad the progra itself
• Written plan for learning experiences in which children will be involved
• All experiences that happen in school
• Think about the goal of the program
• Analyze the options for achieving the goal
Curriculum Organization
• Facts approach
o Experiences are arranged so that children can learn a set of factual information
• Skills approach
o Experiences are selected and arranged so that children learn to cut a line, to share, or to
find information in a selection of reference books
• Subject-matter approach
o Children learn reading, math, or social studies
• Thematic organization
o Skills, facts, and subject-matter knowledge are integrated around a theme
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum
• Guidelines
o Proides for all areas of a hild’s deelopet
▪ Physical, emotional, social, linguistic, aesthetic, cognitive
o Broad range of content across disciplines that is socially relevant, intellectually engaging,
and personally meaningful
o Builds upon what children already know and are able to do to consolidate their learning
and to foster their acquisition of new concepts and skills
o Frequently integrate across traditional subject-matter divisions to help children make
meaningful connections and provide opportunities for rich conceptual development
o Development of knowledge and understanding, processes and skills, as well as
dispositions to use and apply skills and to go on learning
o Intellectual integrity, reflecting the key concepts and tools of inquiry
o Opportuities to support hildre’s hoe ulture ad laguage
o Realistic and attainable
o Technology is physically and philosophically integrated in the classroom curriculum and
teaching
• Concerns
o Teacher in the next grade will not teach in a developmentally appropriate manner
o They are required to use a prepared curriculum
o They have to get through an entire curriculum
o They think parents will not believe that they are really teaching
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