Essay About Curriculum Problems

Most school students have the feeling that what they study is not going to benefit them in real life. They memorize what is in the text books and forget it all once they are done with their finals. Problem here is: students don’t feel that our curriculum is relatable to the real life. This matter became educators’ issue nowadays. Curriculum is subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college. Everybody is thinking of a way to indicate the problems in our schools’ curriculum and how to fix them. This will not be easy, as Fahad Al Ahmadi – a writer in newspapers – said, but it’s possible if we tried correcting our mistakes a bit by bit. In his article Our Current Curriculums, Do They Fit Our Future Needs he indicated that he won’t be talking about what should be deleted from the current curriculum but he definitely knows what should be added. He first gave us a quick glance about the rapid changes and how fast information develops nowadays. “The world is changing so fast” Al Ahmadi said “Information being considered by a university student in his first year becomes (old) while up to his third year.” However, it’s not just about universities’ curriculums, it’s a curriculum issue in general.

According to Mohammed Zahran, a psychologist, gifted students have their own special need, we should provide them with educational and psychological instructions to guide them fulfilling their needs. Dr. Mohammed Al Ahmadi –mental health assistant professor- talked about three main things in his article which are: Problems facing gifted teenagers, how can we help gifted teens and the governmental attempts of sponsoring gifted students. Actually first part of the article is exactly what I need to answer my research question. I’ll be talking about the psychological part in the