1. CURRICULUM PLANNING an Overview

2. Definition of Curriculum Planning Curriculum planning involves a series of organizational methods that are focused on achieving optimal student comprehension.

3. Elements of a Curriculum Plan Persons to be Educated Knowledge Student Progress External Forces Bases of Curriculum Goals and Objectives Curriculum Design Instructional Modes Evaluative Process

4. Basic Considerations in Planning Opportunities for Learning Relation of Curriculum, Instruction, and Teaching Historical antecedent in Planning Opportunities for Learning Bases for the Curriculum Relation of Elements of the Curriculum

5. Forces Affecting Curriculum Planning The Clients The Critics The Professionals Legislative Groups Courts

6. Curriculum has been defined as a plan for providing sets of learning opportunities. Teaching is a process whereby one person mediates between another person and the substance of this world to facilitate learning. Instruction is the actual engagements of learners with planned learning opportunities. Relation of Curriculum, Instruction, and Teaching

7. Historical antecedent in Planning Opportunities for Learning Procedures for Planning Curriculum The Learner and the Nature of the Curriculum Content of the Curriculum

8. Bases for the Curriculum Society Learners Knowledge

9. Relation of Elements of the Curriculum the vertical or sequential arrangement of related learning experiences Sequence takes place within the individual as he progresses over time Continuity the horizontal relationship of learning experiences Integration