A curriculum offers teachers a guideline for
assessing student progress in addition to giving students an understanding of
what is required in order to obtain a degree or any other qualification.
Curriculum must not be static; it must be constantly changing according to
changing needs and demands of the society. Thus the updated curricula must
fulfill the needs of the society. For this purpose educators must evaluate the
curricula and try to update it every 4 years. Although it’s commonly known that
curricula should be updated every four years, in Lebanon the last update was done
in 1999 (15 years ago). Having suitable curricula will help the teacher as well
as the students to achieve more and have a higher performance. Educators must
evaluate curricula and write recommendations that enable them to enhance the
book in order to meet students’ needs. Thus criticizing any book is very important and
allows educators to know the good and the weak points, so that they can enhance
the good points and work on the weak points to fulfill students’ needs. Monday, April 21, 2014
Curriculum update
A curriculum offers teachers a guideline for
assessing student progress in addition to giving students an understanding of
what is required in order to obtain a degree or any other qualification.
Curriculum must not be static; it must be constantly changing according to
changing needs and demands of the society. Thus the updated curricula must
fulfill the needs of the society. For this purpose educators must evaluate the
curricula and try to update it every 4 years. Although it’s commonly known that
curricula should be updated every four years, in Lebanon the last update was done
in 1999 (15 years ago). Having suitable curricula will help the teacher as well
as the students to achieve more and have a higher performance. Educators must
evaluate curricula and write recommendations that enable them to enhance the
book in order to meet students’ needs. Thus criticizing any book is very important and
allows educators to know the good and the weak points, so that they can enhance
the good points and work on the weak points to fulfill students’ needs. 
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The successful implementation of any curriculum involves thoughtful planning and hard work on many levels. Teachers should not follow curriculum blindly, they should plan well the learning objectives and the standards they want their students to reach. In our country Lebanon the curriculum had not been changed for a long period and this is one of the problems as teachers we will face, where we know that many criteria should be changes but we don’t have the permission to do so. In my opinion to solve this problem the teachers should not cover everything in the book, the teachers themselves should be up to date. As teachers we should modify the curriculum to be meet the needs of the students and their abilities.
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