noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broad curriculum (=one that includes a range of subjects)
▪ Students are encouraged to follow a broad curriculum in the first year.
curriculum vitae
National Curriculum
the school curriculum
▪ Head teachers were asked to incorporate road safety education in the school curriculum.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
▪ All these strategies have the potential to involve all pupils in mathematical challenge, enabling them to engage in a broader curriculum.
▪ They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 percent believe bank loans are interest-free.
▪ More staff may mean a broader curriculum.
hidden
▪ Do schools pay sufficient attention to the match between the taught health education curriculum and the hidden curriculum of the school ethos?
▪ Second, because its hidden curriculum can be just as undermining to our real intentions as that of the former withdrawal system.
▪ The interaction of the elements in figure 5.1 will determine the outcomes of both the stated and the hidden curriculum.
▪ In addition values and attitudes are considered since they are apparent in both the formal and hidden curriculum.
▪ In consequence, these objectives have been relegated, in many cases, to the hidden curriculum and pastoral concerns.
national
▪ The inventors of the national curriculum seemed not to have thought about how it would be funded, he claimed.
▪ Subject staff were asked about the resources available for national curriculum work.
▪ The second way in which national guidelines for curriculum policy have emerged is through conferences, reviews or national commissions.
▪ The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
▪ Not all subjects are changing at the same pace although the national curriculum will in time no doubt reach some kind of consistency.
▪ It seems sensible for the inspectorate to maintain that national curriculum.
▪ There are certain characteristics that any national curriculum should have.
▪ He would have liked the science national curriculum.
new
▪ Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
▪ The coordinators are all experienced teachers who are responsible for working with their colleagues to develop new curriculum and programs.
▪ With the advent of the new national curriculum, these materials should be in use in every science classroom.
▪ The new history curriculum for the senior forms poses difficult problems.
▪ Working with industry, educators designed a new curriculum that was co-taught by a team of academic and occupational teachers.
▪ Most of the time the new national curriculum will itself prevent controversy arising.
▪ Why will the social sciences not figure more largely in the new curriculum for the 21st century?
official
▪ The effect of this system on both the official and actual curriculum in schools is examined in later chapters.
▪ We commonly and erroneously assume the syllabus document to be the core of any official curriculum in schools.
▪ It is only one of a number of instruments which express the official curriculum.
▪ To the average teacher in the average school the official curriculum plan is unattainable.
▪ Clearly all these structural changes are vital determinants of the official curriculum.
primary
▪ Such a policy adds an entirely new dimension to the primary school curriculum and its planning.
▪ They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum.
▪ All too often headmasters, teachers and parents are ill-informed about intended changes in primary curriculum programmes.
▪ A small primary curriculum steering committee, perhaps.
▪ This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum.
▪ He then goes on to outline some examples for the primary school curriculum.
▪ As: The primary mathematics curriculum was arithmetic.
undergraduate
▪ The undergraduate curriculum could be otherwise.
▪ However, Figure 2.1 does seem to clarify several aspects of the undergraduate curriculum at a more practical level.
▪ These changes are reflected in an evolving undergraduate curriculum.
▪ Philosophy, in the undergraduate curriculum, can be regarded in two ways.
▪ There are thus general if disputed boundaries to the undergraduate curriculum as currently conceived.
▪ Subsequent centuries brought more layers of thought and tradition to ideas about the undergraduate curriculum.
▪ It is simply undesirable for there to be a direct transfer of research findings into the curriculum, particularly the undergraduate curriculum.
▪ The language for talking about the undergraduate curriculum already exists; it is a matter of using it.
whole
▪ Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum.
▪ This process continues in secondary school, where oral communication remains an essential part in the learning process across the whole curriculum.
▪ His Technique became fundamental to the whole school curriculum.
▪ Numerous visits both to the school and out to the partners are taking place across the whole curriculum.
▪ The general lack of attention to whole curriculum issues has resulted in what Becher and Maclure call fragmentation.
▪ A substantial section of the report is devoted to the curriculum as a whole and to whole curriculum planning.
▪ This it did in terms of the effect on the whole curriculum, and on individual subjects.
▪ In 1983 the whole curriculum for pupils aged 12-16 was reviewed through the production of two important documents.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The norm, as we have noted, was for different groups to be working in different curriculum areas simultaneously.
▪ The reflective process often involves work in other curriculum areas, be it discussion, writing, artwork, computer programming.
▪ Many of the practical examples given in this book contain reference to work in other curriculum areas.
▪ The following brief notes are indications as to how one might use drama both to stimulate and support work in specific curriculum areas.
▪ Drama can be a powerful force for motivating and enhancing work in every curriculum area.
▪ The questions are divided into curriculum areas.
▪ Although the work began life as a historical project, it involved work in most curriculum areas.
change
▪ In some degree, all these processes take place wherever a curriculum changes.
▪ But how much real curriculum change has there been this century?
▪ Now sadder but wiser, we are prepared to admit that the implementation of curriculum change is a complicated business.
▪ The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
▪ By contrast, the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods.
▪ Certainly owing to curriculum changes and other factors the numbers are small.
▪ This is the dichotomy that must be used to form a framework within which any curriculum change must be placed.
▪ The project is therefore also an exercise in the development of teaching techniques and curriculum change.
content
▪ It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice - both in curriculum content and methodology.
▪ Stressing the individuality of the school is vital, particularly now that the National Curriculum gives a uniformity to curriculum content.
▪ The document was divided into sections concerning curriculum content, overlap, teaching methods, relevance, and evaluation.
▪ I believe that the focus of attention is shifting from curriculum content to how best to teach science.
▪ How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals?
▪ The first consisted of an analysis of curriculum content and teaching methods conducted by questionnaire.
core
▪ New elements will ease their way into the core curriculum.
▪ But it is not a core curriculum like that being touted by test-and-measure statehouse reformers.
▪ Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
▪ Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
▪ This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
▪ But some professors say library purchases have been cut and they have not been given the promised resources for the core curriculum.
▪ And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
▪ In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
development
▪ However, although the director had talked about curriculum development the emphasis was very much on the accountability dimension.
▪ There were nation-wide curriculum development projects in language, play, and early mathematics which involved thousands of teachers.
▪ We suggest that curriculum development groups should not be responsible for the distribution and support of software at this level.
▪ Accordingly, curriculum development involves specifying educational goals and selecting appropriate learning contexts in which those goals can be pursued.
▪ Teacher research is seen as a powerful means of bringing about effective curriculum development and promoting children's learning.
▪ As with all curriculum development there are many questions to be raised and pitfalls to try to avoid.
material
▪ This is in spite of the existence of clearly articulated curriculum materials and guidelines.
▪ Into this category I put such obvious improvements as eliminating sexism from textbooks, other curriculum materials and examinations.
▪ Hence, subject and support teachers will need to develop expertise in modifying curriculum materials and managing behaviour problems.
mathematics
▪ I often ask to see rough work from other areas of the mathematics curriculum.
▪ We are long overdue for a complete overhaul of the mathematics curriculum at all levels.
▪ The principles of design which emerge from this development will be available for application to further areas of the mathematics curriculum.
▪ The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+.
▪ At Thomas Buxton school developing our mathematics curriculum is a continuing process.
▪ It is against this background that we turn to the mathematics curriculum and ask what mathematics is relevant to real life.
▪ As: The primary mathematics curriculum was arithmetic.
planning
▪ Again there is a considerable literature on the use of aims and objectives in curriculum planning that casts doubts on its efficacy.
▪ The arguments for and against this approach to curriculum planning and evaluation are well documented elsewhere.
▪ Most important is discussion of curriculum planning and curriculum carrying-out by you and your governing body.
▪ Before asking whether others should be involved, however, it is worth asking if teachers are presently involved in curriculum planning.
▪ In two other respects certain Institutes developed important machinery for curriculum planning.
▪ They are all part of that continuing process of gaining experience in rational curriculum planning which forms the theme of this book.
▪ The international evidence of teacher involvement in curriculum planning indicates little possibility for ordinary teachers.
▪ This is easy for lecturers to forget in the concern with syllabuses, materials and all the paperwork that curriculum planning involves.
policy
▪ The second way in which national guidelines for curriculum policy have emerged is through conferences, reviews or national commissions.
▪ For many years there was no whole-school curriculum policy at Sutton.
▪ Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies.
▪ The Authority's curriculum policies produced various responses from heads and teachers.
▪ These aims were to be used as a checklist to test curriculum policies.
▪ Again LEAs were requested to draw up curriculum policies and schools were expected to set out their aims in writing.
school
▪ Such a policy adds an entirely new dimension to the primary school curriculum and its planning.
▪ So things have changed, and the change is reflected, as Snow would have wished, in the school curriculum.
▪ Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum.
▪ It also provides opportunities for pupils to develop vital skills and learning strategies that can be applied across the school curriculum.
▪ The guiding assumption was that the school curriculum should differ according to the ability of the child who would follow it.
▪ First and most importantly, there is the time and commitment which people from industry put into supporting the school curriculum.
▪ Even the school curriculum has been closely scrutinised in its national form.
▪ The last reform on this front centres on the school curriculum.
science
▪ She was called to Kigali for a meeting to reform the science curriculum for students doing vocational courses.
▪ Thus they escape the naturalistic science curriculum of the vast majority of public institutions at the primary, secondary and collegiate levels.
▪ But the new Headmaster did not try to turn the School into a Technical School with a full science curriculum.
▪ Quantum mechanics, although now eighty years old, has shown no signs of transforming the school science curriculum.
▪ This range covers most areas of the science curriculum, with Patterns in Chemistry and Electricity and Magnetism to follow.
vitae
▪ One Harvard dealer had registered with an employment agency which stupidly sent his curriculum vitae to Harvard.
▪ He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.
▪ Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.
▪ That was a new paragraph for her curriculum vitae.
▪ That kind of curriculum vitae brings a reward in terms of career advancement, with the inevitable monetary gains.
▪ Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward's curriculum vitae fast enough.
▪ Last year I ran it because it was missing from my curriculum vitae.
▪ Merrill's fingers closed over the bulkier envelope containing her curriculum vitae and references.
■ VERB
develop
▪ The head has a clear dilemma: it is possible to lead staff in developing a curriculum in quite different directions.
▪ The coordinators are all experienced teachers who are responsible for working with their colleagues to develop new curriculum and programs.
▪ Our first thought might be that the easy way out is to develop a subject-orientated curriculum.
▪ The teachers still must develop a curriculum.
▪ Siemens worked with teachers at the school to develop a curriculum that combines physics and electronics.
▪ At Thomas Buxton school developing our mathematics curriculum is a continuing process.
follow
▪ During the final year, students follow the curriculum for either the general degree or the honours degree.
▪ Can a teacher refuse to follow the curriculum if the refusal is based on religious objections?
▪ But there are also advantages to a school district following a standard math curriculum.
▪ Moreover, students were to follow the prescribed curriculum, which included holiday observances, songs, and patriotic exercises.
▪ For example, must teachers and students salute the flag or follow the curriculum if doing so violates their religious beliefs?
▪ Because of my ongoing involvement, almost every teacher in the school may follow this one curriculum guide.
provide
▪ To overcome these problems, small schools in some rural areas have formed cooperative clusters whereby teachers provide curriculum support for each other.
▪ Their qualifications depend on their willingness to provide the prescribed curriculum for children in their classes.
▪ Unfortunately, in the past girls' schools did not provide the same curriculum options as boys' schools or mixed schools.
▪ There are also private parochial schools that provide a more rigorous curriculum.
▪ Once resources have been obtained, they would be organised to provide the College curriculum, and ensure the necessary non-teaching support.
teach
▪ To assume that teaching them a fragmented curriculum will lead them to a unified sense of place and person is unrealistic.
▪ Teachers collaborating in the research teach the curriculum unit in the school.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
core curriculum/subjects/skills etc
▪ And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
▪ Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
▪ In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
▪ In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
▪ In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
▪ Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
▪ This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
the National Curriculum
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are politicians the best people to be developing the educational curriculum?
▪ changes to the school curriculum
▪ The curriculum includes art and music classes.
▪ We cover the curriculum by choosing things the kids will be interested in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fieldwork is an integral part of the curriculum and may include a foreign field course in third year.
▪ If education is about anything, it is surely about what is taught: the curriculum.
▪ On the other hand, one of the curriculum guides may represent the ideas that are especially important to me.
▪ That fact alone should have indicated something to parents about the curriculum in that school.
▪ The curriculum includes an eight-week work-based experience.
▪ The domination of the curriculum by subjects classically defined was, indeed, the most obvious feature of the grammar-school curriculum.
▪ The next issue is closely related to the value issues involved in curriculum review.
▪ Why will the social sciences not figure more largely in the new curriculum for the 21st century?