Teaching Curriculum: Core Concepts & Best Practices

This module introduces the course's emphasis on the relationship between the teacher and the curriculum. It covers three basic topics: the concept of curriculum, the teacher's curriculum, and adapting to curriculum to broaden understanding of curriculum and its effects on students' experience.

This module explores fundamental issues of curriculum in depth, examining mechanisms that underpin the entire system of education in a country. Topics covered include curriculum formulation, needs assessment, curriculum process, and administration of curriculum.

This module focuses on learning before teaching, exploring the three-way relationship between teacher, curriculum, and students. Topics include learning as student-specific, theories of student learning, and student-centered teaching approaches.

This module brings together important aspects of teaching and learning, covering issues of interpretation, designing learning activities, planning lessons, and bringing lessons to life.

This module summarizes philosophical insights into education that have influenced curriculum development. It explores educational philosophy as a system of beliefs and values, presenting ideas from key theorists like Jerome Bruner and Paulo Freire.

This final module focuses on amplifying the role of curriculum, communities of learning, self-assessment, and reflection. It explores pedagogical content knowledge and the concept of professional learning communities.