Question | Answer |
Curriculum | overall plan for the teaching of a subject matter |
Steps of curriculum design | planning,implementation,evaluation,revision |
planning steps | situational analysis,needs analysis,problematizing,goals and objectives,syllabus |
Implementation steps | program and classroom |
program steps | materials and teacher training |
classroom steps | presentation, practice, feedback |
Evaluation | In curriculum design the students and the program are assessed or evaluated |
Evaluation of students | Measure student achievement of course objectives and standards |
Program evaluation | Evaluate parts, goals, objectives, methods and overall success rate of students |
Lesson | It is a unified set of procedures that cover a period of classroom time. |
Elements of a lesson | They are goals, objectives, materials and equipment, procedures, assessment, extra class work |
situational analysis | It is an analysis of setting, audience and students needs |
needs analysis | It defines the needs that the course wants to address. There are objective needs and subjective needs |
Objective needs | They can be measure such as learners language ability, interests,language skills to be addressed. |
Subjective needs | They are needs as seen through the eye of the learners such as their expectations, purpose for studying a second language, preferences about their learning and specific languages skills they want to focus on. |
problematizing | It is anticipating impediments, issues and other potential obstacles in the implementation of a curriculum. |