Reflection on Week 9

Topic 9: Curriculum Implemetation

Criteria for selecting Content

1) Self-sufficiently

• To maximize teaching effort and educational resources, subject matters are generalize ability.

2) Significance (Significant/'meaningful to student)

• contribute meaningfully to students

3) Validity 

• authentic and not obsolete or incorrect (misleading)

4) Interest

• Students interested in the knowledge when it is meaningful their life

• Reason: To allow for students' maturity, use their prior experiences

• educators should make sure the content engages the individual.

5) Utility (useful/can be used and applied into practice)

• concerns on the usefulness of the content.

• enable the students to use the knowledge in the jobs situations and other adults activities.

6) Learnability

• appropriate organization and sequencing of content

• However, certain contents are out of the range of students experiences and thus difficult.

Curriculum Contents

• Postmodernism view knowledge as dynamic and evolutionary - not static

• knowledge results from a structuring and reconstructing of perceived realities.

• Knowledge is that results from environment within which human find themselves.

How to select Content?

1. Addresses cognitive, social and psychological dimensions of the individual

** Content - Facts, concepts, generalizations and theories which are similar

• disciplined knowledge - Chemistry
• non disciplined knowledge - environmental education, (concern the advancement of understanding)

How Content are Organized?

** Knowledge is organized...

1. Based on theories
2. Into domains - Example: Number and integer are within the domain of mathematics, physics has matter and energy
3. Systematic, practicality (based on current social and economic condition) and sequenced (emphasized on different topics)