Designing A Curriculum Effectively

       A fundamental demonstration of our calling is the making of educational programs and learning encounters to meet indicated reason. Students are our basically customers, given that the adequacy of educational programs, evaluation, and instructional plans is at last controlled by their accomplishment of wanted learning. Our course product is intended to make adapting more successful; similarly as PC programming is proposed to make its clients more beneficial.

     Teachers are not allowed to instruct any point they pick by any methods. Rather, they are guided by national, state, area, or institutional standards that particularly what students should know and have the capacity to do. These standards give a valuable system to enable us to recognize educating and learning needs and guide our outline of curriculum and assessments.

     The backward design is the approach for planning an efficient educational system, following the UbD (understanding by design) system for further work and understandings, and to avoid the twin sins of traditional design. This design contains three stages; the teacher must firstly identify the desired results, then determine the acceptable evidence, and finally plan the learning experiences and instruction.

    According to the Lebanese Ministry of Education, the objectives of the Lebanese science curriculum come as follows:

1. • Develop the learners' intellectual and practical scientific skills.
2. • Deepen the learner’s awareness in the ability of humans to understand, invent, and create.
3.  • Understand the nature of science and technology, their development across history, and their impact on human thought.
4. • Insure that learners have acquired the facts, concepts, and principles necessary to understand natural phenomena.
5.  • Motivate students to apply basic scientific principles in all sciences.
6. • Explain the scientific concepts and principles behind commonly used machines and devices
7. • Acquire knowledge about health, environment, and safety practices and behave accordingly.
8. • Realize that some natural resources can be depleted and make the learner aware of the role of science in sustaining these resources.
9.  • Encourage learners to use scientific knowledge and skills in novel situations especially in everyday life.
10. • Emphasize the role of scientists in the advancement of human kind.
11.  • Encourage learners to be open to the ideas of scientists from different cultures and to their contributions in the advancement of science.
12.  • Encourage learners to abide by such scientific values as honesty and objectivity.
13. • Develop the learners’ scientific curiosity and orientation toward scientific research.
14.  • Encourage learners to work independently and cooperatively in solving scientific problems.
15.  • Make the learners aware of career possibilities in different science related areas.

From here, these objectives must be applied when setting a curriculum, even for small grades, the sense of some of these objectives must be felt.