1. Curriculum and course design
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• Prepared by
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• Ahmed youssef

3. Defining terms
curriculum
The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content
taught in a school or in a specific course or program.
Program :
It’s a general and broad term describes
a plan or schedule of activities, procedures,
a list of items, pieces, performers etc offered within a institution

4. Syllabus
the subjects or books to be studied in a
particular course, especially a course that leads to an exam
Course ( class )
A limited time educational experience carried out in regular
meetings
Like now we have a course or a class

5. SITUATION ANALYSIS
 It’s the first step in course design
 the effective course should consider the following factors :
1. Educational setting
2. Class characteristics
3. Faculty characteristics
4. Course content
5. Assessment and evaluation

8. The main factors of the SITUATION ANALYSIS IN
CURRICULUM PLANNING
• • Societal Factors
• • Project Factors
• • Institutional Factors
• • Teacher Factors
• • Learner Factors
• • Adoption Factors

10. NEEDS ANALYSIS
ESP : English foe Specific Purpose

13. PROBLEMATIZING

14. SPECIFYING GOALS

15. Aims
• Develop moral character and personal discipline.
• Encourage creativeness and critical thinking.
• Broaden scientific and technological knowledge.
• Foster love of humanity.
• Teach the rights and duties of citizenship
• Promote respect for human right.
• Strengthen ethical and spiritual values

16. goals
 Examples :
To develop a skill in reading,writting ,speaking and listening
To be able to verbally and visually express a point of view

17. Objectives
• Objectives are the most specific
• 1 General objective: Those objectives that describe
school wide outcomes.
• E.g. Improving students skills
• 2 Specific objective:
• Those objectives describe the outcomes of a particular unit, a
particular subject or a particular program .
• E.g. cognitive, affective domain

18. objectives
goals
aims

19. conceptualizing a course syllabus

20. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SYLLABUS AND
CURRICULUM
Prescriptive

21. THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED IN MAKING A
SYLLABUS
• The needs, wants, interests of the students.
• The learners learning styles .
• Setting out achievable objectives .
• Having a clear idea of global goals,
i.e. why the course is being run and what are the end goals .
• The physical constraints of the environment you’ll be teaching in.
• The nature of the course, e.g. a Business English Course.
• The order of the syllabus elements.
• To know how to balance skills systems.

22. Selecting textbooks ,materials ,and resources

23. criteria for e choosing textbooks for a course
• Textbooks should be appropriate to the teaching environment
(in an English speaking country or in a non-English speaking
environment)
• Meet the pupils’ needs
• Encourage our pupils when they are not motivated.
• The text encourage independent learning.
• attractive in appearance for the students
• Should focus on the four skills in learning languages

24. • Always we need to consider :
• The Price
• Availability
• The usefulness
• Layout and design
• Instructions
• Methodology

25. Assessment ( evaluation )
It’s the measuring and evaluating of the progress in the
learners levels and understanding

26. the assessment Could be through
• Traditional tests
• Quizzes
• Multiple choice test
• Fill in the blanks
• Mid and final exams

27. Purposes of evaluation
• To evaluate the growth of the pupils.
• To diagnose the weakness and strength of pupils.
• To provide basis for a modification of the curriculum and course.

28. Course revision
• The successful teachers will always look for ways to improve a
course and make it better the next time it is taught
• what are the steps you might follow in revising a course ?
1) See the need for change
2) Determine the extent of change
3) Engage in realistic change
4) Follow your own principled teaching