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Competency Based Curriculum

This document discusses the need for Kurdistan to adopt a competency-based curriculum. It outlines some key reasons, including better preparing students for 21st century challenges and the changing world. A competency-based curriculum aims to develop learners' skills, knowledge, and attitudes to make them successful lifelong learners, confident individuals, and responsible citizens. Some challenges to implementing such a curriculum in Kurdistan are also discussed, such as outdated assessment methods and a lack of teacher training and educational infrastructure.

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Competency Based Curriculum

This document discusses the need for Kurdistan to adopt a competency-based curriculum. It outlines some key reasons, including better preparing students for 21st century challenges and the changing world. A competency-based curriculum aims to develop learners' skills, knowledge, and attitudes to make them successful lifelong learners, confident individuals, and responsible citizens. Some challenges to implementing such a curriculum in Kurdistan are also discussed, such as outdated assessment methods and a lack of teacher training and educational infrastructure.

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Competency Based Curriculum

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Competency Based Curriculum

Jwan Shkak
Hewa Hassan
The Concept of Curriculum
 Refers to the intended and systematic learning
experiences through which students acquire and/or
develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes that are
components of the learner’s competencies.
 It refers to the planned pathways of learning that respond to
the learner’s needs and cater for their development, while also
observing societal needs and prospects.
Why Kurdistan Needs a New Curriculum
 The world around us is changing and we must prepare our
children to face the new challenges in the 21st Century. They
need to acquire new skills and knowledge of the latest
technologies. The school curriculum must reflect these
changes, and thus, prepares our children for the challenges
ahead.
Reasons for Applying Competency Based
Curriculum
 As the present curriculum in Kurdistan is not going with any
standards and does not build a competent and successful
learner, the ministry of higher education and scientific research
and education must think of a competence based curriculum
and reform it.
Key Aims for Reforming Curriculum are that
Learners should Become:
 Successful life-long learners able to operate confidently in a
knowledge-based economy and a rapidly changing
environment.
 Confident and productive individuals able to work with others
and contribute to society.
 Proud and responsible, proud of their rich heritage and able to
take their place effectively in the wider world.
Reasons for Applying a Competence Based
Curriculum in Kurdistan
 Providing high quality education for all, as a human right.
 Developing integrated, balanced, flexible and advanced
curricula that deepen the learner’s skills and attitudes
towards respecting human rights.
 Addressing both the learner needs and the requirements
of national development plans, including the present and
future needs of the labor market.
Reasons for Applying a Competence Based
Curriculum in Kurdistan
 Addressing changes/new developments at the local and
international levels through up-to-date and culturally-
appropriate curricula.
 Building enlightened citizenship based on the principles
and practices of democracy, freedom and social justice.
 Developing creative and critical thinking, problem solving skills,
pro-active attitudes and learning to learn skills from a life-long
learning perspective.
Benefits of Competency Based Curriculum
 Be valued as learners and enjoy learning
 Develop important skills, values and attitudes and acquire up-
to-date and relevant knowledge
 Develop a range of important key competencies such as:
 Thinking and learning competencies, so that they become successful lifelong
learners.
 Personal and social competencies so that they become confident and
productive individuals.
 Citizenship and work competencies so that they become proud and
responsible citizens.
 Use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the
importance of the environment and sustainable development.
Benefits of Competency Based Curriculum
 Develop values based on a shared commitment towards:
 Their Identity
 Tolerance and respect for all
 Social justice (including respect for rights of other nations, gender, equality,
inclusiveness, and social cohesion)
 Democracy sustainable development
Main Challenges as Identified in Different
Analyses
 Since the 1980s, only textbooks were part of the written and
intended curriculum, which creates obstacles for curriculum
harmonization, coherence and consistency.
 Lack of adequate teacher education and training in support of
quality curriculum implementation- Persistence of old-
fashioned assessment and evaluation methods and tools.
Main Challenges as Identified in Different
Analyses
 Lack of critical mass of professional curriculum and textbook
authors and developers
 Lack of adequate educational infrastructure and school
facilities for the implementation of quality curriculum.
 Lack of appropriate quality control mechanisms.
 Lack of adequate quality control.
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