Principles of Curriculum
Design
7 Principles of Curriculum Design
01 Challenge and enjoyment
05 Coherence
02 Breadth 06 Relevance
Personilazation and
03 Progression 07 choice
04 Depth
Challenge and enjoyment
• Children and young people should find their
learning challenging,engaging and motivating.
• Leaners should be active in their learning and
have opportunities to develop and demonstrate
their creativity
Breadth
• All children and young people should have
the opportunities for a broad range of
experiences.
Progression
• Children and young people should experience
continous progression in their learning from 3
to 18 years
• Each stage should upon earlier knowledge
and achievements
Depth
• There should be opportunities for children
and young people to develop their full
capacity
Coherence
• Children and young people learning activities
should combine to form coherent experience
Relevance
• Children and young people should
understand the purpose of their learning and
related activities
Personilazation and choice
• The learning planned for children and young
people should respond to their individual
needs and support particular aptitudes and
talents.
Lesson
Plan
a lesson plan is a teachers daily
guide for what students need to
learn, how it will be thought,
and how learning will be
measured.
Stages in Lesson
Plan
During the lesson you will need to present the
core material to all students, again and supervise
group work and/or monitor individual practice
session for every students in class.
After the lesson you may want to evaluate the
lesson plan and think remedial methods for weak
students reflecting on how what worked and what
did’nt go so well, will help you improve future
lesson .
Activites before the lesson include developing
lesson plan itself, deciding on the methods of
presentation, selecting the text, preparing the
materials/worksheets to be used during the
lesson, and assigning task, if any, peer tutors.
Steps in Preparing a Lesson Plan
• Identify the learning objectives
• Plan the specific learning activities
• Plan to assess student understanding
• Plan to sequence the lesson in an engaging and
meaningful manner
• Create a realistic timeline
• Plan for a lesson closure
OVERVIEW OF LESSON PLANNING
IN THE MULTIGRADE CLASSES
1. Learning Objectives
● Learning objectives list what students will be able to
do after completing the lesson.
2. Plan the specific learning activities
● Consider the types of activities students will need to
engage.
3. Plan to assess students understanding
Provide opportunities for students to demonstrate and
practice the knowledge and skills articulated in the
learning objectives.
4. Plan to sequence the lesson in an
engaging and meaningful manner
It is how the lesson will progress in the classroom.
5. Create a realistic timeline
Estimate how much time each of the activities will
take, then plan some extra time for each.
6. Plan for a lesson closure
DEVELOPING
TEACHING
STRATEGIES
● Strategy 1
Teach all groups together
● Strategy 2
Teach one grade while others work independently
● Strategy 3
Teach one subject to all grades and at varying levels of difficulty
● Strategy 4
Develop peer, cross-age and cross-grade teaching startegies
● Strategy 5
Relate learning with daily experience
TEACHING
EFFECTIVELY IN A
MULTIGRADE
CLASSROOM
Once you start teaching in a multigrade classroom, how
effective your teaching is, will largely depend on how
well you are prepared to handle multi-activities.
The goal is to create diverse instructional strategies
both suitable to the curriculum content and based on
the needs of your students.
Management of teaching calls you to strategically plan
activities to engage the students through direct
teaching, with a peer tutor, in a small group, or in
independent study.
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