BASIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS RELATED TO ELTPS
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CURRICULUM: The word refers to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults.
✅✅✅GOALS: Within a curriculum are the standards-based benchmarks or expectations for teaching and learning. Most often, goals are made explicit in the form of a scope and sequence of skills to be addressed. Goals must include the breadth and depth to which a student is expected to learn. :
✅✅✅ METHODS: Methods are the instructional decisions, approaches, procedures, and routines that teachers use to engage all students in meaningful learning. These choices support the facilitation of learning experiences in order to promote a student’s ability to understand and apply content and skills. Methods are differentiated to meet student needs and interests, task demands, and learning environment. Methods are adjusted based on ongoing review of student progress towards meeting the goals.
✅✅✅ MATERIALS:
Materials are the tools selected to implement methods and achieve the goals of the curriculum. Materials are intentionally chosen to support a student's learning. Material choices reflect student interest, cultural diversity, world perspectives, and address all types of diverse learners.
✅✅✅ ASSESSMENT:
Assessment in a curriculum is the ongoing process of gathering information about a student’s learning. This includes a variety of ways to document what the student knows, understands, and can do with their knowledge and skills. Information from assessment is used to make decisions about instructional approaches, teaching materials, and academic supports needed to enhance opportunities for the student and to guide future instruction.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TEACHING PROGRAM: According to the accreditation standards of the ACCJC, an instructional program is defined as “a combination of courses and related activities organized for the attainment of broad educational objectives described by the institution.”
✅✅✅TYPES OF PROGRAMS: College district policies regarding educational program development should define the various types of awards (degrees and certificates) given by the institution upon completion of courses and requirements determined by faculty to be essential in an educational program. The type of program created should be based on the needs of students and the program learning outcomes that students are expected to accomplish in order to complete the program and to be successful in their future educational and employment goals.
✅✅✅WHICH PROGRAM TYPE IS THE RIGHT ONE?: Once discussion around a new program has begun, and the student learning outcomes for the program have been written, faculty must determine what type of program (Associates, Certificate of Achievement, etc.) best serves students from a wide variety of options. The following guiding questions may help faculty determine the program structure that best serves students:
●What level of preparation must students achieve to be considered proficient in a discipline, field, or industry?
● What type of program is recognized as appropriate or valuable in the eyes of employers in the field or industry?
● Which degree-applicable skills or courses are needed to help students achieve the program student learning outcomes?
●How many courses will a student need to take to achieve those outcomes?
● What is the value of general education to achieving the program’s student learning outcomes?
● Can students benefit from the program without the program appearing on their transcript?
● How flexible should the program be to best serve the students who will benefit from this program?
● How will a student’s financial aid eligibility be impacted by the program?
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SYLLABUS: The syllabus is defined as the documents that consist of topics or portion covered in a particular subject. It is determined by the examination board and created by the professors. The professors are responsible for the quality of the course. It is made available to the students by the teachers, either in hard copy or electronic form to bring their attention towards the subject and take their study seriously.
✅✅✅A syllabus is considered as a guide to the in charge as well as to the students. It helps the students to know about the subject in detail, why it is a part of their course of study, what are the expectations from students, consequences of failure, etc. It contains general rules, policies, instructions, topics covered, assignments, projects, test dates, and so on.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ CURRICULUM GOALS: They are general, broad statements that lead towards long-term outcomes. These goals are typically designed to be met by students after a longer period of time such as a year of schooling or a series of courses in a discipline.
✅✅✅When planning for the national syllabus, planning authorities have to consider the following and many other related factors:
• the philosophy of the nation;
• the age ability of the learner;
• learning items and content;
• teachers and other resource persons; and
• sequential arrangement of learning material (Okai, 2010).
✅✅✅The scope of the goal. Goals can encompass multiple years, entire disciplines, or a whole program. Before you choose the goal you want to construct, think about the time and scope of the learning objectives directed by the goal. For example, you could create a goal for the three-year art class sequence at your school, or choose a goal for students to complete over a single semester in high school linguistics.
✅✅✅The type of goal: skill, behavior, or knowledge. Goals can incorporate a variety of processes, including skills to be learned, attitudes to be adopted, or concepts to be understood. Take this variety of goals as an example:
⚠To develop skills in painting, drawing, and sculpting⚠
⚠To understand the necessity for collaborative problem solving ⚠
⚠To appreciate music as a means of artistic expression⚠
✅✅✅Do not specify how a goal will be achieved. Make sure to separate the functions of goals from the functions of objectives. Think about goals as big-picture and long-term, while objectives are multiple, shorter-term processes towards reaching the goal.
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CURRICULUM OBJECTIVES: Objectives are related to goals in that they are specific methods through which students can demonstrate their understanding or application of goals.
✅✅✅Create objectives that are observable and measurable. When constructing objectives, consider these questions: What behaviors, applications, or products should students produce to demonstrate an understanding of the goal? What distinguishes mastery of this goal from simple recall or low-level understanding?
✅✅✅Construct objectives using behavioral terms. Consider the different behaviors that are closely related to your goal. Generally, behavioral objectives can be divided into the following categories:
Cognitive (head)
Affective (heart)
Physical (hand)
✅✅✅Create objectives with variable time expectations. Some objectives should be longer-term, with students needing to work towards mastery over a year or semester. Other objectives, on the other hand, should be completed over a shorter period such as one week or unit. For example, a long-term objective could be an effective one, like “students will learn to be compassionate to others,” taught over an entire year. On the other hand, a short-term objective could be “students will demonstrate understanding of basic biology terms” learned over the unit covered.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learning outcomes are measurable achievements that the learner will be able to understand after the learning is complete, which helps learners understand the importance of the information and what they will gain from their engagement with the learning activity.
✅✅✅Learning outcomes also play a key role in assessment and evaluation, making clear what knowledge learners should have upon completion of the learning activity. A well-written learning outcome will focus on how the learner will be able to apply their new knowledge in a real-world context, rather than on a learner being able to recite information.
✅✅✅The most useful learning outcomes include a verb that describes an observable action, a description of what the learner will be able to do and under which conditions they will be able to do it, and the performance level they should be able to reach.
5 TYPES OF LEARNING OUTCOMES
🔥🔥🔥1. Intellectual Skills: With this type of learning outcome, the learner will understand concepts, rules or procedures. Put simply, this is understanding how to do something.
🔥🔥🔥2. Cognitive Strategy:In this type of learning outcome, the learner uses personal strategies to think, organize, learn and behave.
🔥🔥🔥3. Verbal Information: This type of learning outcome is when the learner is able to definitively state what they have learned from an organized body of knowledge.
🔥🔥🔥4. Motor Skills: This category is concerned with the physical ability to perform actions, achieving fluidity, smoothness or proper timing through practice.
🔥🔥🔥5. Attitude: This is the internal state that reflects in the learner’s behavior. It is complex to quantify but can be shown in the learner’s response to people or situations.
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https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1082472.pdf
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https://www.ride.ri.gov/InstructionAssessment/Curriculum/CurriculumDefinition.aspx#:~:text=Curriculum%20is%20a%20standards-based,access%20to%20rigorous%20academic%20experiences.
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https://www.asccc.org/sites/default/files/Effective%20Practices%20Paper%203.12.18.pdf
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https://keydifferences.com/difference-between-syllabus-and-curriculum.html#:~:text=The%20syllabus%20is%20described%20as,educational%20system%20or%20a%20course.&text=Syllabus%20is%20descriptive%20in%20nature,set%20for%20a%20particular%20subject.
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https://www.valamis.com/hub/learning-outcomes
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https://apasseducation.com/education-blog/curriculum-development-goals-objectives/#:~:text=Curriculum%20goals%20are%20general%2C%20broad,of%20courses%20in%20a%20discipline.
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