Curriculum Models

It is important for you as a teacher to understand how the curriculum you are using in your school was designed.

Curriculum models. Curriculum models can be broken down into two very broad models the product model and the process model. Models of curriculum design 29 unit 4. Luckily these two models are just as they sound. The product model is results oriented.

Module 13 unit 4. This unit describes a variety of models of curriculum design in order to make this complex activity understandable and manageable. For example the product model that emphasizes plans and intentions and the process model that focuses on activities and effects. Where a process centric conceptualisation of curriculum enquiry is centred on the holistic experience of the learner and on the teacher s role in supporting the pupil and their development models of curriculum which are product oriented are focused on destinations rather than on journeys.

The process model however is more open ended and focuses on how learning develops over a period of time. Current curriculum models can be broken down into two broad categories the product model and the process model. Luckily these two models are just as. Broad theoretical frameworks used to design and organize the curriculum according to certain principles and criteria.

Traditional or discipline based curriculum learner centred and problem centred models. Other examples include subject centred e g. Grades are the prime objective with the focus lying more on the finished product rather than on the learning process. When we talk about curriculum in today s classrooms and schools we mean the.

These two models.