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Traditional Curriculum

Expanding their horizons

Students may also take courses in the social sciences, and can expand their curriculum with topics like art, foreign languages, music, acting, and so on.

Coverage

Leveling Up

The curriculum is designed in a progressive way, with each level being slightly more challenging than the last, requiring students to build skills and use them as their work their way through the curriculum.

Real life Context

Because the information is considered important in its own right, traditional curriculum designers often pay little attention to whether or not students use the information in any real-life context.

Videos

In the sense of an entire curriculum, a traditional curriculum includes core subjects and electives. Core subjects usually include topics like math, science, history, and English.

Traditional Curriculum Design

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The Test Measure

What is a Traditional Curriculum?

The traditional curriculum can also be heavily standards-based, with testing used to measure accomplishment and progress. This practice has also been criticized by educations, as standards-based curricula can take on a “teach to the test” format

Curriculum design traditionally has focused on the transmission of discrete pieces of information--frequently rote facts and formulas--from teacher to student.

Tradition vs Reality

In reality, most learning situations demand an integration of various kinds of knowledge, and information is considered valuable insofar as it fills an experienced desire or need for information.

Because traditional curriculum design does not reflect these realities, it often does not provide students with opportunities to develop the kinds of critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities that are central to thinking and learning. Furthermore, traditional curriculum design does not include opportunities to build the kinds of personal and collaborative skills that support learning.

What doesn't it do?

Order of Information

In this kind of curriculum, segregated "silos" of knowledge (labeled "disciplines") are used to impose order on information .

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