Week Ten: curriculum & syllabus design, & lesson planning

This week's readings were very informative. For those who have not worked on making a curriculum, or have not made a syllabus yet, these discriptions in the books are very useful introductions to curriculum & syllabus. I liked some of the distinctions made between goals and objectives and the classifications of needs as objective and subjective and their importance in making a curriculum. As it was declared in the books, it is also important to know and make clear distinction between goals a objectives. Afterall, the author points out that even after having carefully made the curriculum, the producers of it may fine a number of flaws when applying it. However, he mentions that a curriculum may not reach perfection unless it is used once.

There was also nice information about different types of syllabuses which was very eye-opening (is this an English expression?) about syllabus designing. I liked the diffintion of the syllabus by the writer in the conclusion of MCM which says "I suggest that syllabus design is that part of curriculum development which is concerned with selecting, grading, intergrating, and justifying the contenct of the crriculum." (p. 63). In addition his suggestion about the integrated syllabus designing seems more logical because it contains most key pionts from all types of the syllabuses.

In the lesson planning part, something which attracted me was gaging the difficulty and individual differences. I think these two points are critical in making the lesson successful.