Reflection 3: Curriculum Design

Four element of Curriculum Design

Design Dimensions Consideration

1)  Scope

• Consist all the content, topics, learning experience, and organizing threads,
• can extend over a year or more,
• consider learning's cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains

2) Sequence

• Cumulative and continuous learning,
• How content and experience can build on what come before

3) Continuity

• Repetition of curriculum,
• Ideas and skill reappear 
• Provide opportunity to become more sophisticated in the process

4) Integration

• Linking all types of knowledge and experience,
• Relationship between topics and themes

5) Articulation

• Vertical articulation (sequencing content from one grade level to another)
• Horizontal articulation (develop relationship between elements)

6) Balance

• Appropriate weight of each aspect,
• Advance their personal social and intellectual goals.