Unit 6: Curriculum Design

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Reflection


Curriculum design is used to describe the purposeful, deliberate, and systematic organization of curriculum within class or course. It talks about relationship among curriculum’s components.  In my opinion, it guides teachers on what to teach, how to teach, when to teach, and the impact of teaching particular content. Under this unit we have three designs such as subject centered design, learner centered design, and problem centered design. Under each design we have three sub-designs. For this particular unit, we worked in groups and did gallery work through poster presentation. From the three main designs, I loved the learner centered design more because it places emphasis on learners. Learners are given freedom to choose what they wish to learn as per their interests rather than curriculum forcing what they must learn. when students are given freedom to learn through their interests, they learn better. However, problem centered design is also applicable in this era as students are given platform to identify and solve the contemporary issues that are arising in today's world. 









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