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Social Studies Curriculum Designs: Task 1. Subject-Centered Design (10pts)

The document discusses three different social studies curriculum designs: subject-centered design, learner-centered design, and problem-centered design. Subject-centered design focuses on specific subjects like math or biology and describes what content needs to be taught. Learner-centered design takes individual student needs, interests, and goals into account by differentiating instruction. Problem-centered design exposes students to real-world problems to develop transferable skills and allows them to be creative in finding solutions.

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Social Studies Curriculum Designs: Task 1. Subject-Centered Design (10pts)

The document discusses three different social studies curriculum designs: subject-centered design, learner-centered design, and problem-centered design. Subject-centered design focuses on specific subjects like math or biology and describes what content needs to be taught. Learner-centered design takes individual student needs, interests, and goals into account by differentiating instruction. Problem-centered design exposes students to real-world problems to develop transferable skills and allows them to be creative in finding solutions.

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Carbantes Kristine D.

BEED-3
EED 020/ 7:30-9:00AM/ TTH Doc. Rogaciano Melgar

MODULE 11:
SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM DESIGNS

Key Concepts: Social studies explores the following curriculum designs. These are as follows:
subject-centered design, learner-centered design, problem-centered design. As a teacher in the
elementary, it is essential for them to understand the different curriculum designs in social
studies.

Directions: Do what is asked. Research through the internet and other sources. Provide a
descriptive detail and example to each of the above-mentioned curriculum designs.

Task 1. Subject-centered design (10pts)


Subject-centered curriculum design revolves around a particular subject matter or discipline.
For example, a subject-centered curriculum may focus on math or biology. This type of
curriculum design tends to focus on the subject rather than the individual. It is the most
common type of curriculum used in K-12 public schools in states and local districts in the United
States.
Subject-centered curriculum design describes what needs to be studied and how it should be
studied. Core curriculum is an example of a subject-centered design that can be standardized
across schools, states, and the country as a whole. In standardized core curricula, teachers are
provided a pre-determined list of things that they need to teach their students, along with
specific examples of how these things should be taught. You can also find subject-centered
designs in large college classes in which teachers focus on a particular subject or discipline.
The primary drawback of subject-centered curriculum design is that it is not student-centered.
In particular, this form of curriculum design is constructed without taking into account the
specific learning styles of the students. This can cause problems with student engagement and
motivation and may even cause students to fall behind in class.
An example of a subject-centered curriculum is the spiral curriculum. The spiral curriculum is
organized around the material to be taught, with less emphasis on the discipline structure itself,
and more emphasis on the concepts and ideas.

Task 2. Learner-centered design (10pts)


In contrast, learner-centered curriculum design takes each individual's needs, interests, and
goals into consideration. In other words, it acknowledges that students are not uniform and
adjust to those student needs. Learner-centered curriculum design is meant to empower
learners and allow them to shape their education through choices. The term learner-centered is
akin to “user-centered” focus of a product. If a course is designed in a learner-centered way, it
means extensive attention has been given to the needs, interest and skills of our learners when
we design our course.
Instructional plans in a learner-centered curriculum are differentiated, giving students the
opportunity to choose assignments, learning experiences or activities. This can motivate
students and help them stay engaged in the material that they are learning.
The drawback to this form of curriculum design is that it is labor-intensive. Developing
differentiated instruction puts pressure on the teacher to create instruction and/or find
materials that are conducive to each student's learning needs. Teachers may not have the time
or may lack the experience or skills to create such a plan. Learner-centered curriculum design
also requires that teachers balance student wants and interests with student needs and
required outcomes, which is not an easy balance to obtain.

Task 3. Problem-centered design (10pts)


Like learner-centered curriculum design, problem-centered curriculum design is also a form of
student-centered design. Problem-centered curricula focus on teaching students how to look at
a problem and come up with a solution to the problem. Students are thus exposed to real-life
issues, which helps them develop skills that are transferable to the real world.
Problem-centered curriculum design increases the relevance of the curriculum and allows
students to be creative and innovate as they are learning. The drawback to this form of
curriculum design is that it does not always take learning styles into consideration.
Students' perceptions about a discipline come from the tasks or problems in which they are
asked to engage. For example, if students in a geometry course are asked to memorize
definitions, they think geometry is about memorizing definitions. If students spend a majority
of their mathematics time practicing paper-and-pencil computations, they come to believe that
mathematics is about calculating answers to arithmetic problems as quickly as possible. They
may become adept at quickly performing specific types of computations, but they may not be
able to apply these skills to other situations or to recognize problems that call for these skills. If
the purpose of studying mathematics is to be able to solve a variety of problems, then students
need to spend significant time solving problems that require thinking, planning, reasoning,
computing and evaluating.

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