Curriculum Foundations
This term refers to the structured plan of learning experiences.
What is Curriculum?
The official documents, syllabi, and lesson plans.
What is the Written Curriculum?
This approach focuses on measurable outcomes.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
Philosophy emphasizing learning by doing.
What is Progressivism?
Desired learning outcomes.
What are Objectives?
The process of creating and improving curriculum.
What is Curriculum Development?
What teachers actually deliver in class.
What is the Taught Curriculum?
Curriculum viewed as interconnected components.
What is the System Approach?
Focus on timeless truths and enduring knowledge.
What is Perennialism?
Tools used to measure student learning.
What is Assessment?
Beliefs guiding curriculum decisions.
What is Curriculum Philosophy?
Unintended lessons, values, and norms learned by students.
What is the Hidden Curriculum?
Teacher-led grassroots model of curriculum development.
What is Taba’s Model?
Curriculum as a tool for social change.
What is Reconstructionism?
Ongoing feedback during learning.
What is Formative Assessment?
Periodic evaluation of curriculum effectiveness.
What is Curriculum Review?
Content deliberately left out of the curriculum.
What is the Null Curriculum?
Revisiting topics with increasing complexity over time.
What is the Spiral Curriculum?
Learning through direct experience.
What is Experiential Learning?
Final evaluation of student achievement.
What is Summative Assessment?
Major changes introduced to reshape curriculum.
What is curriculum reform?
Curriculum designed to reflect cultural diversity.
What is the Multicultural Curriculum?
Curriculum organized around real-world issues.
What is the Problem-Centered Approach?
Curriculum challenges power structures and promotes critical awareness.
What is Critical Pedagogy?
Planning, Programming, Budgeting system used for accountability.
What is PPBS?