Summary: What's curriculum?

Summary: What's curriculum?

Curriculum can be defined as:

• all the experiences students go through during their school trajectory

• a conscious and systematic selection of knowledge, skills and values: a selection that shapes the way teaching, learning and assessment processes are organized by addressing questions such as what, why, when and how students should learn.

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What's curriculum? Check the one(s) you consider correct.

• All the experiences students go through during their school trajectory

• A conscious and systematic selection of knowledge, skills and values

• It refers to what, why, when and how students should learn.

• What students learn at school

What's the purpose of the curriculum?

• To provide a common cultural base for the whole country

• To enable students to acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and values, and the associated capabilities and competencies to lead meaningful and productive lives.

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What are the effects of the curriculum? Check the one(s) you consider correct.

• It casts the way we see the world and what we can do.

• It makes us who we are

Formal curriculum

• Also known as explicit/overt/written

• What's taught at school

Hidden curriculum

• "Set of formative influences that the school exercises systematically but that are not explicitly or formally recognized" (Jackson, 1968)

• It derives from the school culture

  
  

Null Curriculum

• Also known as excluded curriculum is that which is not taught.

• Sometimes the teacher ignores some content or skill, deliberately or unknowingly. A teacher may consider some idea unimportant and ignore it. Similarly, teacher may avoid detailed description of some topic for the one or other reason, for example, evolution in Biology.

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In Chile, Bases Curriculares correspond to:

• Null curriculum

• Explicit curriculum

• Hidden curriculum

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The organization for Bases curriculares inglés from 5ºB to 2ºM includes:

• axes per skills

• axes per language content

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From 5º to 2M, Bases curriculares inglés have:

• 4 OAs

• 12 OAs

• 16 OAs

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The newest bases curriculares are:

• 3ºM and 4ºM

• 7ºB - 2ºM

• Proposal for YL

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Bases curriculares inglés for 3ºM - 4ºM have:

• 4 OAs

• 16 OAs

• 12 OAs