Types of curriculum

Different types of curriculum-fused, subject centered, core, student centered.

1. TYPES OF CURRICULUM

2. TYPES OF CURRICULUM

3. STUDENT CENTERED CURRICULUM Student centered curriculum means children take command of their own learning. Teachers are there to provide support and facilitate the student’s learning but children determine the direction of their own learning following their natural interests and passions.

4. Help students become independent, responsible and confident. Give students the opportunity to develop skills in which to take care of their own needs and solve problems. Maintain students interest by allowing them to what is important to them. Help child develop executive skills. ADVANTAGES

5. School values are ignored Focus in on activities rather than subject. Selection of activities is difficult. The weakness of the child-centered curriculum are chiefly in the possibilities for “misinterpretation ”. DISADVANTAGES

6. Fusion Curriculum. Fusion implies disregard of subject matter lines. It involves the teaching of two or more subject areas together in one class without special regard for the old subject matter lines. The lower secondary school curriculum involves quite a lot of fusion, when compared with the old curriculum. FUSED CURRICULUM