Curriculum Analysis.

Significance:

The Curriculum takes content (from external standards and

local goals) and shapes it into a plan for how to conduct effective

teaching and learning.  It is thus more than a list of topics and

lists of key facts and skills (the “input” 

It is a map of how to achieve the “outputs” of desired student

performance, in which appropriate learning activities and

assessments are suggested to make it more likely that students

achieve the desired results.

The idea :

The Aims:

The Curriculum elements:

The education curriculum analysis includes the following elements for the whole content of the set-book that should be taught and applied all the year round.

1- General Aims:

By the end of the course, the following aims will have been achieved:

1-Achieving policy making.  Learning languages and culture creates understanding, friendship and cooperation among peoples and countries all over the world.

2-Developing language Listening and speaking skills to be used as a means of communication with others.

3-Developing the skills of reading and writing.

4-Practising Knowledge, attitudes, culture, social values,

competences, fun and performance.

5-Achieving relevance and learners' needs, interests

and abilities.

6-Acquiring skills and experiences to solve real

life problems.

2-The objectives:

1. They describe the aims of a course in terms of units of learning.

2. They provide the basis for the organization of teaching activities.

3. They describe learning in terms of observable performance.

4-The teacher mentions the cognitive aims, the behavioral aims and

the emotional aims of teaching each unit. 

5-The objectives are often seen to depend upon a systematic

analysis of the learners’ communicative needs.  Needs analysis

is part of the process by which aims and objectives are determined.

3- The course Content (Input stage):

In language teaching, Input refers to the linguistic content of a

course. It seems logical to assume that before we can teach

a language, we need to decide what linguistic content to teach.

Once content has been selected, it then, needs to be organized

into teachable and learnable units as well as arranged in a

rational sequence.  The result is a syllabus.

The activity-based learning method includes project-based teaching, teaching through solving problems, feed-back,  mind-mapping, brainstorming, playing the roles, acting, miming, elicitation, inductive method. deductive method, singing, playing games, using gestures, practical education, guessing, thinking, innovating, creation, imagination, interviewing, dialoguing, pair work, group work, collaborative work, using realia, real situations, and doing exercises.

   The teacher can use audio and visual aids that include pictures, cards, flash cards, flip charts, school magazines, wall charts, drawings, letter building cards, designs, paintings, sentence building cards and grids.  The teacher himself is an audio-visual learning aid through his gestures and facial expressions.

Technology

The role of technology is very important in active learning.  The teacher mentions the type of technology he sees suitable and he is going to use like:

the cassette, video, the computer, the internet, the data show, the overhead projector, the power point computer program, computer logo program, computer excel program, the adding machine, TV programs, The SAT Education  Channels programs, Slides, CDs, Tapes, and school broadcast.

 Technology offers us electronic teaching. I mean that the teacher must have an electronic lesson plan which must be previously prepared on a CD before.

The teacher can enable the learners to use electronic program like MS picture management, Movie-maker, Lingoes program, Jing program, Free-mind program,...

Resources / materials:

1-The Set-Book.

2-The Work Book.

3-The teacher's guide.

4-My experiences.

5-Maps, magazines and authentic situations.

6-Authentic material.

7-Electronic programs and IQ Board.

8-The Environment.

9-Video films.

10-The internet .

5-The Activities:

1-Co-Curriculum activities.

They are the classroom activities which include learners' share in discussion, pair work, group work, learning projects, interviewing, playing the roles, singing, drawing, painting, designing, songs, games, written work, oral discussion, workbook exercises, group work projects and all forms of participation and interaction. They are graded.

2-Extra-Curriculum activities.

A-There are outside classroom activities which include sharing in school parties , school congregations, doing researches, school broadcast, bulletin board, English club and school magazines.

They are not graded.

B-There are outside school activities which include school trips, visiting life sites to face real situations. They are not graded.

6-Assessment:

It is based on listening, speaking, knowledge, attitudes and performance.

It includes:

1-Self assessment.

2-Peer assessment.

3-Tutor assessment.

Interaction, participation, practice and communication.

Assessment Tools:

1-Discussion and interviews.

2-learners' portfolio.

3-Check lists.(Formative and summative)

4-Homework.

5-Embedded Assessments.

6-Standards register.

7-Formative feedback.

8-The summative monthly oral test

9- Electronic Portfolios can be used to directly assess student work.

7- Learning outcomes

The learning outcomes refer to the achievement of the desired

purposes or results.  The evidence means the extent of progress

or the indicators or the learning outcomes that can be seen and

illustrated through observing the learners' performance.

The performance includes pair work, group work, researches,

sharing, interaction, participation, dialoguing, evaluating,

exploration, visiting the libraries and using technology in learning. 

learners' written exercises, grades, projects and  portfolio are

evidences for the learner's progress too.

Curriculum Map / Matrix / Curriculum full evaluation:

1-The  aims or the desired purposes have been achieved.

2-Learners are prepared for future reading and writing skills.

3-As for the basic principles of my curriculum, coherence,

permanent change, innovation and competences are considered

and different approaches are integrated in my curriculum design.

4-The cultures have been learnt and practiced.

5-The 4 language skills have been acquired efficiently.