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How To Evaluate An Effective Curriculum

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An effective curriculum is a curriculum that successfully leads children to meet the goals of education and develops them into responsible and competent citizens. The curriculum should also be "thoughtfully planned, challenging, engaging, developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically responsive, comprehensive and likely to promote positive outcomes for all young children" (National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) & National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE), 2003, pp. 2). As such, the following indicators would assist practitioners in evaluating a curriculum’s effectiveness in the Singapore context. Firstly, a curriculum is effective when children …show more content…

Dewey’s progressive education theory states that curriculum should be integrated, across developmental domains and subject areas, building on children’s interests so as to acquire appropriate skills (as cited in Bredekamp, 2017). This means that teachers need to know what the children are interested in and the content that they needed to learn in order to design quality and engaging educational experiences for children. This integrated curriculum would resonate with the iTeach principle of holistic development since this principle emphasises strongly on developing the child in relation to developmental domains and subject areas (MOE, 2012). When teachers implement integrated curriculum, they should regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the activities planned to ensure that children can attain relevant and useful skills, achieve the goals and outcome and, potentially meet the needs of parents and the society (Bredekamp, 2017). Hence, parents and the society can be assured since activities planned are always directed towards achieving the desired goals and outcomes and preparing children for the 21st Century. Therefore, an effective curriculum would be one that is all-rounded and caters to the needs of children, parents and the

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