Definitions of Curriculum
Definitions:
Curriculum is the outline of concepts to be taught to students to help them
meet the content standards. Curriculum is what is taught in a given course or
subject. Curriculum refers to an interactive system of instruction and learning with
specific goals, contents, strategies, measurement, and resources.
Concept of curriculum:
1. A curriculum consists of the "roadmap" or "guideline" of any given discipline.
Both the philosophy of teaching of the instructors as well as of the educational
institution serve as two of the principles upon which a curriculum is based.
2. A curriculum is the combination of instructional practices, learning
experiences, and students' performance assessment that are designed to bring
out and evaluate the target learning outcomes of a particular course
3. Curriculum encompasses a variety of technical and non technical courses that
are required to complete a specific degree.
4. Curriculum includes everything that takes place, and everything that does not
take place, within the purview of the school.
5. Curriculum is a framework that sets expectations for student learning. It serves
as a guide for teachers, a roadmap if you will, that establishes standards for
student performance and teacher accountability.
6. Curriculum is a group of courses offered in a particular field of study.
7. Curriculum is a set of courses (offered by an educational institution) that are
required to complete an area of specialization.
8. Curriculum is a set of courses that comprise a given area or specialty of study. I
see curriculum as the framework of content or ingredients that relate to that
given area of study. Curriculum often conjures up words such as format,
guidelines, content of "what to teach," and "what the student needs to learn." I
see curriculum in both formal and informal ways, i.e., as a body of related
information that an educator needs to convey, but with latitude in the strategies
that an educator may use to convey the information.
9. Curriculum is all of the courses of study offered ( science, math, reading, etc.)
and those guidelines for teaching and learning set forth for a particular
educational institution.
10.Curriculum is any criteria, element, aspect, that aids in children's learning.
11.Curriculum is specifically what you teach within each discipline and at each
level.
12.Curriculum is the "floor plan" or blueprint for what is going to be
taught/learned/experienced ... in the academic classroom over a period of time.