The document discusses several models of curriculum development, including the Taba model, Ralph Tyler's model, Kerr's model, and Wheeler's cyclic model. The Taba model takes a grassroots approach with teachers designing curriculum for their students initially before a broader design. Tyler's model outlines four basic principles: educational purposes, experiences, organization, and evaluation. Kerr and Wheeler argue curriculum development is not always linear and can involve interactions between different elements like objectives, content, experiences, and evaluation.
2. • It is defined as the process of
selecting, organizing, executing, and
evaluating, learning experiences on
the basis of the needs, abilities and
interests of the learners and the
nature of the society or community.
Curriculum Development
3. Models of Curriculum Development
• The Taba Model : Taba took what is known as a
grass-roots approach to curriculum development.
She believed that the curriculum should be
designed by the teachers rather than handed down
by higher authority.
Further, she felt that teachers should begin the
process by creating teaching-learning units for
their students in their schools rather initially in
creating a general curriculum design.
4. Cont. Taba Model
The Taba Model an inductive approach to
curriculum development, starting with
specifics and building up to a general
design
5.
6. Ralph Tyler Model:
Four Basic Principle
• Purposes of the school
• Educational experiences related to the
purpose
• Organization of the experiences
• Evaluation of the experiences
7. Steps in Curriculum Development
Tyler’s Questions of Curriculum Development
will provide 4 steps:
• What educational purposes should the school
seek to attain?
• What educational experiences can be
provided that are likely to attain these
purposes?
• How can these educational experiences be
effectively organized?
• How can we determine whether these
purposes are being attained?
8. Curriculum Development cont.
• Some curriculum experts like Tyler say
that the steps are followed in a sequence
or a straight line.
• This model that assumes that curriculum
decision making follows a straight line is
called linear model
9. Curriculum Development cont.
• Other scholars argue that curriculum
decision making is not a simple linear
process that necessarily starts with aims.
• One of them is Wheeler (1978) who
believes that curriculum decision making
can start from any point and can come
back to any of the points e.g. like a cycle
10. Cont. of Curriculum Development..
• Kerr (1968) also believes that curriculum
process is a very complex set of activities and
decisions and they interact a lot.
• Changes made in content may necessitate
changes in experiences, which may again bring
about changes in evaluation etc.
12. Wheeler’s Cyclic Model
Evaluation
Aims, goals and
Objectives
Selection of
learning
Experiences
Selection of
Content
Organization and
Integration of
learning
experiences
13. Bibliography
• Curriculum Development: The Philippine
Experience.
• Garcia, Dolores (2007). Designing Curriculum.
Rex Book Store.
• Reyes, Flordeliza C. (2000). Engineering the
Curriculum. De La Salle University Press