Curriculum vs Syllabus

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Curriculum VS Syllabus

PROF DR SHAHMURAD

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The curriculum is the

superset and syllabusis the subset of

curriculum

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Curriculum is the complete

set of taught material in a

school system.

It is prescriptive (asopposed to the

descriptive syllabus,

which is the outline of

topics covered.

If the curriculumprescribes the

objectives of thesystem, the syllabusdescribes the means toachieve them

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Curriculum comes from

a Latin word which

means the course of a

chariot race.

However, curriculum has

come to mean much

more than a prescribedone track race and calls

for a search for an

understanding thatgives meaning to

education that is both

functional and ethical4


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Curriculum as a guiding

document helps

teachers in

understanding

standards that students

need to achieve at theend of a developmental

stage/course

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The curriculum

document will indicate

what to teach, how

the curriculum is to be

taught and help in

checking whether thecurriculum is taught as

per the document.

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Discussions at HEC

The present

curricula inbiology forstudents at all

levels ofeducation aredeficient and

substandard. 7


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The curricula neithercommensurate with the

present and futureneeds of the countrynor do these take in toaccount >>>>>>> thecontemporarydevelopments in thesubject in the rest of

the world. 8


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Discussions at HEC

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It is proposed by HECthat national

committees of expertswill be appointed for acomplete revision ofthe curricula andcourses of study atprimary, secondaryand tertiary levels in

biology respectively.10


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Consequently,

groups of learnedand experiences

biological

scientists will beasked to write

textbooks, based

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Over the years, curriculum has

meant different things to

different educationists.

Some simply equate curriculum

to the syllabus that is to betransmitted in the class.

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A syllabus gives a more

focused outline for particular

subjects.

It cant be equated, because a

curriculum is for a course but asyllabus is for a subject.

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The curriculum is the

superset and syllabusis the subset of

curriculum

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The syllabus is the content,

the list of topics/concepts

to be taught, whereas thecurriculum is a

consideration of the

objectives, the content,

methods chosen to achieve

those objectives.

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It could/should

contain aconsideration of

the kind of

assessment onewill use to check

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Curriculum is

developed keeping in

mind the standards

students should

achieve from well-

researched bestpractices.

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Curriculum is

designed so that theteaching and testing

are aligned with the

standards set foreach developmental

stage,

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Some see it as an end-product, which is to beachieved through a prescribed plan withpre-set objectives.

For others, it is the interaction betweenknowledge, students and teachers.

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A curriculum can

be a teachers

friend or an

enemy depending

on how the

teacher plans to

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The curriculum can

be a straight-jacketor a crutch or a

spring-board.

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For a teacher the

curriculum stopsbeing stifling if

he/she understands

what it is meant toachieve.

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But most use it, often

badly, as a crutch

because they make no

effort to engage with it

or understand what it

hopes to achieve.

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Once a teacher

understands that,he/she can use it

or work around it

to achieve thesame

ends/objectives24


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