20 minute assignment - definition of curriculum

20 Minute Assignment - Google Curriculum

We were asked to spend approximately 20 minutes online looking at curriculum and definitions of it. Below, you will see the various definitions I found. After reviewing them, many began by initially focusing only on the list of courses. Others went further to specify that it was courses as well as their content. However, the ones I liked the most talked about curriculum being a learning plan, consisting of what students must know but also what they must be able to do. This mimics language I am familiar with, and is how I am used to thinking about curriculum. The learning process cannot be separated from the content, in my opinion.

- Wikipedia * In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults. A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard.
- WiseGeek * Curriculum has numerous definitions, which can be slightly confusing. In its broadest sense a curriculum may refer to all courses offered at a school. This is particularly true of schools at the university level, where the diversity of a curriculum might be an attractive point to a potential student. A curriculum may also refer to a defined and prescribed course of studies, which students must fulfill in order to pass a certain level of education. For example, an elementary school might discuss how its curriculum, or its entire sum of lessons and teachings, is designed to improve national testing scores or help students learn the basics. An individual teacher might also refer to his or her curriculum, meaning all the subjects that will be taught during a school year.
- Merriam-Webster * 1: the courses offered by an educational institution
2: a set of courses constituting an area of specialization
- Definitions of curriculum on the Web:
course of study: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university"
In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults.
- curricular - Of, relating to, or following a curriculum
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- A program of courses to be taken in pursuit of a degree or other objective.
- Structured teaching plan for a course.

- A complete program of learning which includes the following components
- The coherent set of courses that make up a degree program or departmental offerings on a subject.
- refers to both the content (the material to be learned), and process of learning (the actions and resources involved in teaching and learning).

- is the content of the components or modules which the learner will follow.
- Contents of a course or program.
- means the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.