How can those concepts about curriculum and course design contribute to your teaching development?

Curriculum design is essential to improve education, teaching and the ways students learn, as it is not only an academic matter, but part of the reflection every teacher should develop in his career, those concepts are involved in our professional experience, as you are all the time doing a diagnosis of a situation and also, the implementation of a proposal to overcome all the difficulties and also to meet expectations and needs.

Curriculum is a systematic plan of instruction that should provide teachers with meaningful learning experiences in both in and out of schools activities. we, as teachers should built a practical and accurate curricular proposal for the school, I mean, we should apply a coherent theoretical and methodological framework built in order to guide learning and teaching process as well according to the specific context of the students, taking into account all the contributions and needs to do it more practical, easy to understand, and follow, and the most important with a sense of ownership, as all the community helped in the development of it.

The curriculum should also be suitable, that is that be relevant according to the school’s situation, taking into account student’s needs, human recourses, critical viewpoints about existing conditions and the need for adjustment and innovation. it should be student centered, that is they take part in the decision making about topics and tasks.

Curriculum should have and anthropological and axiological inspiration; a democratic participation; a cross curricular nature to be open, and affect everybody’s action; it should be flexible but well planned for not loosing its axis; also, it should be coherent to the needs; it should have realism, as it respond to community’s reality; it should have a project for the future, to be respected and evaluated in order to improve on every step of the process; and of course, it should be personalized, supported with ideas that can be integrated and focused on the concept.

In the curriculum and its process of building, and applying, there should be negotiation, tolerance, acceptance, reflection, and coherence. so regarding the correlation between the English program and the PEI, it is clear that evaluation guidelines become a central element when designing a curricular platform and also, we can empower a change in Colombia’s society.

Next time you and me are willing to design a curriculum, we have clear what to do, who to ask, and how to act to do a good job and improve and help society starting with our ouwn process of teaching and learning.