CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION
Curriculum to people through
• Dissemination
• implementation
Dissemination
• To inform
• To educate
• To bring about awareness
Implementation
• Implementation is the application phase of
not only core syllabi, but also the school’s
broad curriculum, every subject curriculum
and every unit/lesson
• The participation of the instructional leaders
and teachers determines successful and
effective curriculum implementation
Key factors for curriculum
implementation
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Continuous contact with consumers
Communication
Provision of support services
Compensation
How do we implement the
curriculum successfully?
Continuous contact with consumers
• To give and receive advice and help
• To encourage mutual contact between
consumers and
• To effect contact with learners and parents
Clear communication
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To illustrate roles
To explain terminology
To illustrate possible means of evaluation and
To supply answers to the well known queries
of who? What? When? Where? How? and
why?
Provision of support service
• To spell out time scheduling
• To supply materials
• To create a climate within which trust and
security are ensured
• To encourage teachers
Compensation through
• Financial, praise, acknowledgement and
intrinsic aspects of compensation
Levels of implementation
• Macro-implementation
• Micro-implementation
Macro-implementation
• It is the application of policy and curriculum
initiatives, which have been determined at
national level by curriculum authorities
• It is the implementation of a broad curriculum
or other core syllabi designed at national level
and has to be applied country-wide
Micro-implementation
• It is the process during which local decisions
are taken
• It is the implementation of a subject teacher’s
subject curriculum or specific lessons in a
particular classroom
Curriculum implementation models
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Overcoming-Resistance-to-Change Model
Organisational-Development Model
Concerns-Based Adoption Model
Systems Model
Influencing factors
• Social factor
• Economic/financial factor
• Political factor
Social factor
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Good communication
Empowerment
Trust and honest
Leadership qualities
Support
Economic influence
• Provision of teaching and learning materials
and facilities
• compensation
Political influence
• Peace and stability
• Policy making