Curriculum Curriculum Design is Like Farming 9 May 20147 Sep 2018 Designing curriculum and instruction is like farming - it is cyclic. As in farming you plan, sow, nurture, harvest and use the evolved understanding and tools to start the next…
Curriculum… Text-books as curriculum 14 Aug 2009 A long time ago I read, “Teachers are designers”. It has taken me years to understand the implications of that simple sentence. As a teacher who has taught across the…
Curriculum Textbooks-dominated classrooms 10 Aug 2009 “The present day classroom practices are, in almost all schools of the country, totally dominated by textbooks. All premises of flexibility of the curriculum and syllabus and freedom of the…
Arts in Education… Sound of music silenced in schools 9 Jul 2009 My three-year old son has an interesting bed-time ritual. He pretends that a discarded power-bar is his guitar and he is a rock star. Two cushions are put up against…
Curriculum… National Curriculum Framework (2005) – who’s listening? 18 Jun 2009 The National Curriculum framework (2005), a watershed document, provides a basis for radical changes in the Indian education system. The Indian Education Review (Volume 44, No.2, July 2008),the latest published…
Curriculum Commonsense in Curriculum 15 Jun 2009 Curriculum is the driving force of a school and can be loosely defined as the framework within which the teaching learning in a school is designed. In that sense, it…