7 Criteria for the Selection of Subject Matter or Curriculum Content
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Criteria for the Selection of Subject Matter or Curriculum Content
1. Self
Sufficiency – (Economy of Learning)
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Refers to less use of educational
resources, but students gain more results.
2. Significance
– (Learning Domains)
- The subject matter or
content is significant if it is selected and organized to develop learning
activities, skills, processes, and attitudes. It also develops the three
domains of learning, namely the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills,
and considers the learners’ cultural aspects. Particularly, if your students
come from different cultural backgrounds and races, the subject matter must be
culture-sensitive.
3.
Validity
– (Subject Matter)
- Refers to the authenticity of the subject
matter or content. There is a need to regularly check the subject matter or
content of the curriculum, and replace the less demanded content with the emerging
trend.
4.
Interest
– (learner-centered curriculum)
- Teacher must consider the interest of the
learners, their developmental stages, cultural, and ethnic background. That is,
the subject matter should be learner-centered curriculum.
5.
Utility
– (Usefulness)
- Selection of the content or subject matter
should be useful to the learners. Learners think that some subjects are not
important to them. They view it as useless and as a result they don’t study.
6.
Learnability
– (Schema)
- The subject matter or content must be within
the schema of the learners. It should be within their experiences. Teachers should
apply theories on psychology of learning in order to know how subjects are
presented, sequenced, and organized to maximized the learning capacity of the
learners.
7.
Feasibility
– (Implementation)
- The subject-matter can be fully implemented
within the prescribed time schedule. Content should be selected by considering
the real situation of the educational institutions, the government, and the
society in general. Learners must learn within the allowable time and the use
of resources available to them. And also, the essential content can be covered
in the amount of time available for instruction,
