National Curriculum-2006&

Classroom Teaching

Dr. Abdul Jabbar Sr. Headmaster

Structure of PresentationStructure of National Curriculum 2006National Curriculum 2006 & textbooksNational Curriculum 2006 & Taleemi

calenderNational Curriculum 2006 & Teacher’s

GuidesNational Curriculum 2006 & Lesson PlanningNational Curriculum 2006 & ResourcesNational Curriculum 2006 & Examinations

Basic Factors behind Changing National Curriculum in 2006The Curriculum was changed to:Ensure shift of emphasis from

Teacher centered to Student centered

To know to doTo know and to become

Important concepts/ terms

Developmental levelsCompetenciesStandardsBenchmarksStudent learning outcomes (SLOs)

Curriculum 2006 StructureDevelopmental Level Grades

I 1-2II 3-5III 6-8IV 9-10V 11-12

CompetencyKey Learning area

1. Reading and thinking skills2. Writing Skills 3. Oral Communication Skills4. Formal and lexical aspects of language5. Appropriate ethical and social

development

StandardsStandards (as defined in the National Curriculum )are:

“what students should know and be able to do. Standards are broad descriptions of the knowledge and skills which students should acquire in a subject area”

These define the competency by specifying broadly knowledge, skills & attitudes

BenchmarksBenchmarks are:

descriptions of the knowledge and skills at developmental level.

Benchmarks further elaborate the standards

Describing what students will be able to accomplish at every developmental levels

Students Learning outcomesStudents Learning outcomes are:

More specific and are given for each topic in the subject.

These learning outcomes “determine how well students are performing and will assure that all students are measured on the same knowledge and skills using the same method of assessment”.

These outcomes are “realistic, observable, achievable and measurable”

Curriculum Structure………..

Competency: Key learning area (languages)

Standards (Subject level) What content for Biology?

Benchmarks (Developmental level) What content at this developmental level?

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) (Grade Level) What content for this class/topic/subtopic?

Components of CurriculumCurriculum consists of following parts1. Description of standards, benchmarks and

students learning outcomes2. Themes3. Teaching strategies4. Teaching and learning resources (including

guidance for textbook writing, A. V. aids, Online resources, materials and apparatus)

5. Assessment and evaluation

National Curriculum 2006 & textbooks

Curriculum specifies/dictates the nature of content and style of textbooks

It gives complete guidelines for developing textbooks

Textbooks in Punjab completely adhere to the content suggested in the curriculum

Every textbook endeavours to achieve the SLOs suggested in National curriculum

National curriculum and teaching strategies

Making lessons interactiveDiscussionInteractive demonstrationRole PlayCooperative learningInquiry based learning

National Curriculum 2006 & Resources

Human Resources Teachers’ qualificationTeachers’ Training

Material resourcesTextbooksInstructional aidsOnline resources

National Curriculum 2006 & Teacher’s Guides/ Lesson PlanningActivity Develop a lesson plan for SLO“Use textbook pictures to aid comprehension

and for development of vocabulary” (Grade: III, p 120)

Revised teacher’s guides have been prepared strictly to help achieve SlOs suggested in National Curriculum

National Curriculum 2006 & ExaminationsCurriculum coherance

Examinations are based on National Curriculum

Particularly PEC exams take SLOs rather than textbooks

Internal examinations must be based on curriculm

National Curriculum 2006 & Taleemi calendar Competency

Standard Benchmark

SLOs Month

Writing Skills

Standard 1: All students will produce with developing fluency and accuracy, academic, transactional and creativewriting, which is focused, purposeful and shows an insight into the writing process.

Identify and use techniques for writing effective and unified sentences and a paragraph.

Write multi-syllable words with correctspellings.

April

Your Role with respect Curriculum

Thorough awareness with curriculum of all subjects

Be able to guide teachers in:Developing lesson plans according to SLOs in

curriculumAdopting teaching strategies as mentioned in

curriculum

Questions????????

THANKS