Three facets to curriculum

1. Continuous appraisal of the existing program in terms of emerging needs

2. Changes where evaluation indicates they are required
3. Operation of an effective on-going educational program while making changes
Activities Involve in Curriculum Development
1. Planning the experiences to be utilized
2. Organizing them into a program
3. Implementing this program
4. Evaluating the curriculum which was thus developed
Curriculum development is a task which requires orderly thinking
1. Diagnosis of needs
Attune or align the curriculum to the needs of the times and of the learners.
Help determine which objectives to stress.
Diagnosis of the Learners interest, ability, activities
Diagnosis of Social Needs beliefs, values, moral principles, traditions, expectations,
value patterns, philosophy, points of view, social condition, economic condition, political
condition, admission requirements of colleges,
Diagnosis of School facilities, and resources of the community valuable aids in
facilitating learning. The resources of the community should be utilized to enrich and
vitalize the program of the school and its curriculum and to give reality and
concreteness to learning. (How are you going to help your learners experience
learning?)
Diagnosis of Curriculum problems find out the causes of underachievement,
difficulties encountered in teaching, or the evident failure of the curriculum to reach a
considerable portion of the learners.

2. Formulation of objectives need to translate educational aims into specific objectives which
suggest the process and content elemnets of learning.
3. Selection of content Curriculum Designing organizing learning experiences
4. Organization of content
5. Selection of learning experiences
6. Organization of learning experiences
7. Determination of what to evaluate and of the ways and means of doing it. To evaluate is to
determine the value or worth of something, and worth is expressed in relation to some type of
criterion
Curriculum evaluation is a systematic process of inquiry. The aim of the investigation is to determine
whether the curriculum as designed and implemented has produced or is producing the intended and
desired results.
Curriculum design refers to the structure of the arrangement of the components or elements of a
curriculum
Curriculum Planning the advance arrangement of learning opportunities for a particular population of
learners.

Curriculum reform/change must maintain the relevance of the schools to the current needs of society.

Subject centered curriculum it is organized on the basis of separate and distinct subjects, each of
which embodies a body of knowledge and skills.
The learner is expected to acquire this body of knowledge and skills.
Child centered curriculum the child is the center of the educational process. The curriculum should be
built upon the interests, abilities, purposes, and needs of the learners. self-discovery and self
direction

Problem-centered curriculum the child is guided toward maturity within the context of the social
group. It assumes that in the process of living, children experience problems. The solutions to these
problems enable the children to become increasingly able to attain full development as individuals
capable of self direction and to become competent in assuming social responsibility.
It attempts to guide children in the recognition of problems and seeking solution.