Thursday, February 20, 2014
Guidelines for Designing ICT Enriched Lessons
In designing ICT enriched lessons, it is important to
establish the learning goals and objectives. The Taba Model is a good reference
for teachers who are involved in lesson design and curriculum planning.
The Taba Model for curriculum was developed by Hilda
Taba. It was called a grassroots effort as she advocated that the teachers
themselves needed to be heavily involved in the development of the curriculum. She
believed that there must be a definite
order to the creation of a curriculum.
Hilda Taba’s
curriculum model can be found in curriculums used in many schools today. Her
approach is based on the behavioral approach to curriculum design. It is based
on a step by step plan, with specific goals and objectives with activities that
coincide and are evaluated with the stated objectives. Taba developed a process
for determining what needs to be taught to students and included a guide on how
to accomplish the outcomes from students (Costa & Loveall, 2002). Hilda
Taba believed that there must be a process for evalutating student achievement
of content after the content standards have been established and implemented.
The main concept of
this approach to curriculum development is that teachers must be involved in
the development of the curriculum. She believed that the curriculum should be
organized around generlized learning objectives which enables students to
discover principles that will enable them to be successfully (Middaugh &
Perlstein, 2005).
There are seven major
steps for developing a "grassroots approach to curriculum development.
These steps are:
1. Identify the needs of the students;
2.
Defines the learning objectives to be taught;
3.
Selection of learning content based on the learning
objectives
4.
Sequence the content according to learner's interest,
achievement level;
5.
Select instructional methods and learning tools (incl. ICT
tools) to engage students meaningfully;
6.
Organise the learning activities
7.
Determine what is going to be evaluated
and how to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum.
In addition, Taba
stated that the learning objectives can be organised into three main areas:
·
Knowledge
·
Skills
·
Concepts
She was an advocate
for students using problem solving and inquiry discovery techniques. The main
idea to this approach is that the needs of the students are at the forefront to
the curriculum. The use of Taba's ideals of charting students’ status in
learning and placing students with similar learning in diverse groupings, what
is now called collaborative learning groups. This is an idea that needs to be
considered if using the basic ideas of this approach in curriculum design.
Resources:
Frankel, Jack R., (1994). The evolution of the Taba Curriculum Development Project. Social studies (84)n4, p. 149-159.
Parry, L., ( ). Innovation and Consolidation in Curriculum Development & Reform.
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