Performance in Education: Curriculum Development-Moral and Obedience

Curriculum Development: Moral and Obedience

Introduction

             Moral and obedience is the beginning of wisdom and a student that shows respect to teacher tends to learn. This paper focuses on curriculum development, impact of technology and effective delivery of curriculum. The concurrent distribution of bad behaviours among youth around the world has been a concern. The society has deteriorated and youth are defiant to instruction.

Curriculum Development

            The components of curriculum development include statement of objective or goal, number of lessons or units, list of recommended learning materials and journals. A curriculum on moral and obedience must cover certain grade from elementary to high school. Glatthorn, et al (2006) stated that is a statement of principles guiding curriculum development and an argument for any new course is an important step in developing parameters of curriculum project (p.198).The process of developing a new course must involve the contribution from teachers, parent, principals and school superintendents and curriculum developers.

         Moral and obedience must be a course that will be taught at a specific grade, such as grade 3 to grade 9. At grade 9, student will learn how to behave very well at workplace and also let them know the importance of punctuality and respect to co-workers. Tovar et al (2012) stated that the steering committee formed a subcommittee, a composed of community partners and academic researchers to design the nutrition and physical activity curriculum (p.198). A group of curriculum development experts are responsible to design curriculum that serve all course including nutrition, moral and education.

 

The Impact of Technology on Curriculum

      Technology implementation has greatly impacted curriculum both negative and positive. Technology has greatly increased work performance by using computers and other equipments that are not available 1950.Sclafani (2002) stated that in 1950, roughly 20 percent of U.S. jobs were professional positions, 20 percent required skilled labour, and 60 percent required only unskilled labour (p.44). Technology has boost production on a larger scale and company can manufacture quality products. The negative impact of technology includes the media, television, mobile phone and internet. Students that watch bad movies and violence on television will always tend to behave aggressively to other student. Most students always like to use calculator for basic mathematics and that is not helping the student to really utilize mental abilities.

          Technology should only enhance student ability to perform complex task. Glatthorns et al (2006) stated that students must be successful employing technological advances to facilitate processing of information in meaningful ways (p.218).Technology has made it easy for curriculum developers to design and update curriculum all year round. Newton (2011) recognized that curriculum development is a dynamic and ongoing process in institutions of higher learning (p.184). Technology is needed to maintain regular update of curriculum.

 

 

Effective Delivery of Curriculum

      It is necessary for federal and state government to provide necessary resources to support the delivery of curriculum to student and teachers. Nygaard (2008) argued that staff requirements, teaching methods, ways of examining and evaluations will be different as the learning context changes (p.39). Better teaching methods and qualified teachers are important for the implementation of curriculum

 

Conclusion

         This paper has greatly discussed the concept of curriculum development, impact of technology on our society and effective delivery of curriculum. Curriculum development must be a collaborative joint effort of the federal and state government in order to succeed.