Five Types of Curricula

Option 1

Type of Characteristics Examples Curricula Overt - Formal instruction The standard curriculum presented by Curriculum - Written curriculum schools in terms of the subjects taught, - Various elements: text, assignments given, instructional assignments, audio visual aids, methods and class activities, lesson etc. plans, etc. - Intentional curriculum Societal - Informal curriculum Moral standards, such as the belief in Curriculum - Refers to what one learns freedom and equality come from through all influences in society societal curriculum (family, friends, neighborhood, The importance of a career, a certain religion, career, etc.) fashion, etc. come from societal curriculum Hidden - Transmitted through the nature, - Emphasis on order (personal Curriculum organization, and systems of the order and group order) schools - Concept of following a schedule - Ideas transmitted through school - Good posture, discipline, design respect, etc. - Ideas transmitted through the teachers’ relationship with the children (expectations, etc.) Null Curriculum - The topics or subjects NOT The null curriculum varies from school to covered and taught in the school school depending on what each school - This could send the message to offers. Examples of null curriculum could students that those subjects be the following: aren’t important or needed but - Religion their absence could also - Foreign languages (or some negatively affect the students foreign languages) and hold some back - Culture Phantom - Messages given through the Possible elements of phantom Curriculum media. curriculum include - This will differ between - Political points of view generations and sometimes - Views toward immigration and between areas, depending on the other issues emphasis of the media - Portrayal of some careers as being more valued than others

Reference:

Wilson, Leslie Owen. (2005). Curriculum Index. Retrieved from

http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/curric/curtyp.htm Option 2

Type of Characteristics Examples Curricula Traditional - Textbook and assignment based Bob Jones University Curriculum approach Calvert Curriculum - 6-7 traditional subjects, unrelated among each other (English, math, science, etc.) - Uses set lesson plans - Incorporates visual and auditory learning Thematic Unit - The different subject areas are Weaver curriculum Study studied, but integrated into each KONOS curriculum other, united around a given time period or topic… - Math and phonics aren’t emphasized; supplemental curriculum for those areas is needed. - Differentiated learning methods Programmed - Self-taught and self-paced Alpha Omega Curriculum - Workbook based. School of Tomorrow Curriculum - Appeals to visual learners Classical - The “Trivium” approach – three Veritas Press Curriculum stages of learning Memoria Press Curriculum - Grammar stage – getting to know the world around them - Dialectic stage – learning the ‘why’ behind things, learning how to think abstractly - Rhetoric stage – application, judgment, logic and debate Technological Multisensory learning curriculum through North Star Academy Curriculum Learning information technology Texas Tech University Curriculum

Reference:

Five Basic Types of Curriculum. (2009). The Education Café. Retrieved from

http://theeducationcafe.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/five-basic-types-of-curriculum/