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Humor:
Teacher: You missed school
yesterday, didn’t you?
Pupil: Not very much!
Definition:
The curriculum analysis is a kind of a map. It is a
plan
with regard to the objectives, content, learning materials,
assessment as well as the methods employed as a
guidelines in conducting
learning activities in order to
achieve the goal of a certain education
as a learning
outcome.
The intended curriculum:
It is the documented, official plan -- or what faculty hope
students will learn.
The achieved curriculum
It includes knowledge, skills and attitudes that are
truly learned and remembered.
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.
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.
English Teaching Forum 2014,
Volume 52, Number 4
