Curriculum backbone for
development
Allard Strijker, 2012-05-08
Edrene, Lissabon
Introduction
• SLO – Centre of
Excellence for
Curriculum Design
• Task from ministry
• Describing what
• Primary education
• Secondary
education
Background for the project(s)
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Support educational development
– Lessons and lesson plans
– Publishers, teachers and schools
– Assessment
– Accountability
– Flexibility
• Special needs, gifted, vocational
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Consistency and coherence in curriculum
Quality
Data exchange
– Results
– Rating
Describing education requirements
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Structured data
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Educational Term store (Onderwijsbegippenkader)
– Educational framework concepts
– Unique concept with captions and descriptions if needed
– Persistent locators
– Basis for consistent vocabularies
– Relations
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Educational framework and technical representation
Authoring environments
Tooling
Educational termstore
Intermediate
objective
Objective
Learning objective
Core objective
Topic
Content
Program
Subject
School
Level
Curriculum Elements
COMPONENT
Level
Objectives
Content
CORE QUESTION
What knowledge or competence is
required?
Towards which goals are they
learning?
What are they learning?
Leerplan in beeld
Relations between objective
Objective
Content
hasContent
hasLevel
Level
Hierarchy in descriptions
Content
Content
Subject
Competence
Specification
hasCompet
ence
hasCompetence
hasCompetence
hasCompetence
Topic
Relations between objective
hasContent
Objective
Learning
Learning
Learning
resource
resource
resource
Content
hasContent
hasLevel
Level
Curriculum Elements
COMPONENT
Rationale
Level
Objectives
Content
Learning activities
Teacher role
Materials and resources
Grouping
Location
Time
Assessment
CORE QUESTION
Why are they learning?
What knowledge or competence is
required?
Towards which goals are they
learning?
What are they learning?
How are they learning?
How is the teacher facilitating their
learning?
With what are they learning?
With whom are they learning?
Where are they learning?
When are they learning?
How is their learning assessed?
The curricular spider web
Learning
Learning
Learning
resource
resource
resource
Ease of use Profiles
• Personal
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Role
Expertise
Style
Vision
• Didactical
– Approach
– Level
– Subject
• Organizational
– Location
– Time
• Lesson (plans)
– Context
– Relations
– Use
User should be central
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More attention for
– User needs
– Ease of use
– Workproces
– Using materials
– Integration reuse and sharing
– Didactics
More information
• Thank you for the attention
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Allard Strijker
a.strijker@slo.nl