CURRICULUM DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

This course introduces teacher trainees to the underlying principles and practices of curriculum design, development, implementation, and evaluation as a conceptual framework to shape their practices as teachers. This course also orients teacher trainees to the various patterns of curriculum design. The course also highlights the factors that underlie different curricula designs that teacher trainees need to understand in order to make sense out of the school curriculum and instruction. This course that also attempts to equip the students with knowledge and skills to plan, design and grade a test. In the course trainees are exposed to various ways of assessing learners.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Course Objectives/Aims: This is a core foundational course that aims to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of basic concepts in curriculum studies so as to ground their practice in teaching. Teacher trainees should be able to appreciate the centrality of the processes of curriculum design, development, implementation, and evaluation to a practicing teacher. This course aims at assist the teacher trainees gain a better understanding of the centrality of evaluating learning to school and educational improvement, as well as prepare them for their role as evaluators in education and training