About Curriculum Criteria

1. What are Curriculum
Criteria
Curriculum criteria are
guidelines on standard for
curriculum decision making.
The objectives of a curriculum
criteria, since they should be
used in selecting learning
experiences and in evaluating
learning achievement.

2.  1. Have the goals of the
curriculum or teaching plan
been clearly stated; and are
they used by teachers and
students in choosing content,
materials and activities for
learning?

3.  2. Have teacher and students engaged
in student-teacher planning in
defining the goals and in determining
how they will be implemented?
 3. Do some of the planned goals
relate to the society or the community
in which the curriculum will be
implemented or the teaching will be
done?

4.  4. Do some of the planned goals
relate to the individual learner and
his or her needs, purposes,
interests and abilities?
 5. Are the planned goals used as
criteria in selecting and developing
learning materials for instruction?

5.  6. Are the planned goals used as
criteria in evaluating learning
achievement and in the further
planning of learning sub goals and
activities?

6. Characteristics of a Good
Curriculum?
 1. The Curriculum is
continuously evolving.
 2. The Curriculum is based on
needs of the people.
 3. The Curriculum is
democratically conceived.

7.  4. The Curriculum is the result of a
long term effort.
 5. The curriculum is a complex of
details.
 6. The Curriculum provides for the
logical sequence of subject matter.

8.  7. The Curriculum complements
and cooperates with the other
programs of the community.
 8. The curriculum has educational
quality.
 9. The Curriculum has
administrative flexibility.