Mrs. Rekha Kumbar – Mahan Anjanadri Vidya Kendra |Effective Principals 2023

GOOD CURRICULUM

Knowledge and education are considered among the major factors contributing to the reduction of poverty, sustainable development, and economic growth – and it is the curriculum that is increasingly viewed as foundational to educational reforms aimed at the achievement of high-quality learning outcomes.

A good curriculum success includes the quality of the learning achieved by students, and how effectively students use that learning for their personal, social, physical, cognitive, moral, psychological, and emotional development. 

A good quality curriculum describes and promotes new roles for the teacher. The teacher’s approach shifts from ‘I am here to teach’ to ‘I am here to lead and enable effective learning’. Teachers need accordingly to know what each student is thinking so that they can provide specifically targeted feedback to each student. They need to help learners to develop the capacity to reflect meta-cognitively on their learning and to articulate their current level of understanding. Learner-centred education and personalized learning thus demand of teachers that they play a particularly active role in the classroom. 

The Curriculum Itself includes

A good quality curriculum describes and promotes new roles for the teacher. The teacher’s approach shifts from ‘I am here to teach’ to ‘I am here to lead and enable effective learning’. Teachers need accordingly to know what each student is thinking so that they can provide specifically targeted feedback to each student. They need to help learners to develop the capacity to reflect meta-cognitively on their learning and to articulate their current level of understanding. Learner-centered education and personalized learning thus demand of teachers that they play a particularly active role in the classroom.

• A good quality curriculum:
• Values each child and holds that every child matters equally
• Is comprised of high-quality ‘content’ which is
• Up-to-date and relevant
• Suitably demanding
• Appropriately sequenced and progressive
• Balanced
• Integrated
• Is well-organized and structured
• Clearly documented
• Comprises a number of inter-related components expressed in consistent and coherent documents

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