Pattern of curriculum

1. Pattern of Curriculum

2. Child-Centered Curriculum
Child-Centered Curriculum means
children take command of their own
learning.
Teachers are there to provide support and
facilitate the child’s learning but children
determine the direction of their own
learning following their natural curiosities,
interests and passions.

3. Child-Centered Curriculum
The philosophy underlying this
curriculum design is that the child is
the center of the educational process.
The curriculum should be build upon
his interest, abilities, purposes and
needs.

4. Cont......
 The curriculum focuses on the whole child
and integrates all of the subject areas
 The day isn’t spent “clock watching” to
ensure time for all subjects every day

5. This type of curriculum emerged from the
extensive research carried on in the 20th
century carried by John Dewey and his
followers.
A new respect for the child, a new
freedom of action, was incorporated
into curriculum building in the child
centered school.

6. Child-Centered Curriculum is hands-on,
active learning
 Children co-create their
learning objectives and goals
together with teachers.
Because we capitalize on the
children’s interests and
empower them to take an
active role, we find children are
emotionally invested in their
own learning. When children
are emotionally invested, they
are willing to explore in-depth
and are able to reach deeper
levels of understanding. For
children, child-centered
curriculum just feels like fun!

7. Scope
 High/Scope is an
“active learning”
educational approach
that seeks to meet a
childs needs on all
levels social,
cognitive, physical,
and emotional.

8.  With this approach children are
mentally and physically active
using their whole bodies and
all their senses to explore and
learn about their world.
 It views play as children’s
work – a time when children
are planning, testing,
questioning, and
experimenting to construct
their own knowledge about
people, objects, events, and
ideas
Scope

9. Subject-Centered
Design Model

10. Subject -Centered Curriculum
 This model focuses on the
content of the curriculum.
 The subject centered design
corresponds mostly to the
textbook written for the specific
subject.

11. Subject-Centered Curriculum
The subject-centered curriculum can be
focused on
 traditional areas in the traditional
disciplines
 interdisciplinary topics that touch on a
wide variety of fields
 on processes such as problem solving
 on the goal of teaching students to be
critical consumers of information.

12. Subject-Centered Curriculum
• A curriculum can also be
organized around a subject center
by focusing on certain processes,
strategies, or life-skills, such as
problem solving,decision making,
or teamwork.

14. Advantages of Subject-Centered Curriculum
 It Makes a Subject more Comprehensible.
 It improves memory since it allows
learners to place detail into a structural
pattern.
 An understanding of fundamental
principles & ideas facilitates a transfer of
training to similar principles.

15. Examples of Subject-Centered Curriculum
Students in history should learn the
subject matter like historians, students
in biology should learn how biologist
learn, and so with students in
mathematics should learn how
mathematicians learn.

16. Refrence
• http://www.slideshare.net/argellee/child-
centered-curr-ppt?next_slideshow=1
• Ahmad,M.& Mehmood,A.,Curriculum
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