Sunday, 27 March 2016

Ralph Tyler or Hilda Taba?





I choose Ralph Tyler model because Tyler’s model is deductive while Taba’s is inductive. Tyler’s approach argues from the administrator approach while Taba’s reflects the teacher’s approach. In essence, Tyler believes that administration should design the curriculum and the teachers implement it. Taba believes that the teachers are aware of the students needs. Hence teachers should be the ones to develop the curriculum and implement in practice. Another name for Taba’s is the grass-roots approach. However, her rationale does not start with objectives, as she believes that the demand for education in a particular society should be studied first. Taba also pays attention to the selection of the content and its organization with an aim to provide students with an opportunity to learn with comprehension. In other side, Tyler lays the main stress on aims, evaluation and control. This approach may be perfect, perhaps, for market oriented education, but inadequate for the development of responsible and creative individuals able to meet the challenges of the constantly changing circumstances. Many educational systems today, using Tyler’s model, have come to crises and require reforms based on a totally different model of curriculum development. 



These four basic principles of Ralph Tyler model. First is defining appropriate learning objectives. Second, establishing useful learning experiences. Third is, organizing learning experiences to have a maximum cumulative effect. The last one is evaluating the curriculum and revising those aspects that did not prove to be effective. 

As a result of the basic principles, the role of the curricularist and teacher shifted to that of scientist. In the development of any curriculum using the Tyler method, hypotheses are to be established in direct relation to the expected learning outcomes for students. As the curriculum is enacted, teachers become scientific observers, determining whether or not their curricular hypotheses are in fact demonstrated by student behavior.  In this case, students will participate on any level in the planning or implementation of their education, while solely assume the role of object of study.



Wednesday, 23 March 2016

what did i discover



This week, i was learn something valuable by designing curriculum. It is boost an approach from ourselves by creating a curriculum  and present to the student. As what i learn in the class, the approach of curriculum development is based on contemporary curriculum development knowledge, systemic thinking, and collaborative approaches. In addition it is on our view that professional development is a necessary component for effective curriculum reform to one and the others. I believe that broad involvement and ownership of the main stakeholders is key for effective curriculum development and every approaches is important to achieve the goal that are set up in curriculum. Without an approach, the curriculum will not get successful.

There are many approaches to curriculum development. For instance, behavior, humanistic and cognitive approaches. They differ by the various perspectives curriculum developers construct regarding the key curricular elements which is curriculum, teachers, students and the context.  Some people develop the curriculum by focus on students and their learning goals where others focus on the effect of the teacher’s action upon learning.  Others than that, is focus on the context of learning and the degree to which individuals are viewed autonomously or as the objects upon which the work of curriculum is acted.

In conclusion, curriculum approach is the way of dealing, designing and thinking about the curriculum. It is involved evaluating from the surrounding, issues and learning environment.


Curriculum Design and Approach

UNITAR International University - i was created one curriculum for the subject of Curriculum Pedagogy. I choose "HIV and Aids Prevention" as my curriculum because i wanted to reduced a number of HIV and Aids suffers. Also, i wanted to build a good and healthy society that can drive  our country to the successful.


As what i have been planned with my group member, i choose behavior as a approach by designing a curriculum. It is because the curriculum emerged out of a long relationship between the social and behavior among student.



A good behavior can effect a good quality of the person. Approach of behavior by designing curriculum is the way of doing or think about something that can change their behavior, in the same time prevent the teenagers from disease of HIV and Aids.It is important ingredients in curriculum implementation as evaluating the learning outcomes as a change in behavior.



In addition, i put a little bit of humanistic as a approach because it is rooted in the progressive and teenagers self-centered. It is consider the value of teenagers in future without suffer from disease of HIV and Aids.