GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR

WOMEN COIMBATORE

ASSIGNMENT ON KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM

CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION-
CURRICULUM FOR DOWN TO TOP
NAME OF THE STUDENT TEACHER : SRI NITHYA .N
CLASS : B.Ed II YEAR
REG.NUMBER : 1031118BD079
ROLL NUMBER : F18B079
SUBMISSION DATE : 02.01.2020

Signature of the Student teacher Signature of the Invigilator

 OBJECTIVE
Introduction
Meaning of Curriculum
Definition of Curriculum
Structure of Curriculum
Types of Curriculum
Curriculum Implementation
Curriculum for Down to Top
Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION
• Effective teaching methods may be constrained by
school curriculum ,but educators can still devise
instructional approaches based on the needs of their
students.
• Some courses are taught better through lecture, while
others may require class participation and direct
interaction through laboratory and field trips.
• Two common teaching methods are known as “TOP-
DOWN and BOTTOM-UP”, which take opposite
approaches to providing students with an education.
 MEANING OF CURRICULUM

• The Latin word for the word “curriculum”

means “race course”.

• In education it means “work field of student”.

• It simply means “A Course of study”.

 DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM

• “Curriculum is a tool in the hands of the

artist to mould his material (pupil)
according to his ideal (objective) in his
studio (school)”
-Cunningham.
• “Whatever the mode of expression ,the
subject matter is the sustentative hardcore
of the curriculum” - Beauchamp.
 STRUCTURE OF CURRICULUM

OBJECTIVE

CONTENT METHODS

EVALUATION
 TYPES OF CURRICULUM

• Subject -centered curriculum

• Student- centered curriculum

• Society -centered curriculum

• Life-centered curriculum
 CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

There are four stages in the process of

curriculum development…
i. Curriculum enactment
ii. Implementation
iii. Evaluation
iv. improvement
CURRICULUM for down to top
 Top-Down Instruction

• A top-down teaching style focuses on providing students

a large view of a subject, immersing them in the big picture
without explaining the components that make up the
subject.
• For example, in an English as a Second Language class, a
top-down approach would begin by immersing students in
all aspects of learning English immediately, including
writing, reading and pronunciation.
• Students would not be taught the intricacies of vowels,
nouns and pronouns first, instead they would be plunged
into the totality of learning English and then gradually learn
the building blocks that make up the English language.
CURRICULUM for down to top
 Bottom-up Teaching

• Unlike a top-down teaching approach, which takes a

macro view of a subject first, a bottom-up teaching
approach begins with the component parts of a
subject, and gradually builds up to the whole.
• For example, in an ESL class, a bottom-up approach
would begin with things such as phonics, letters,
vowels and syllables, which are the building blocks of
language.
• It's only after students have mastered these specific
rules and systems that they move on to speaking and
reading.
 Distinctions in Methods

• Top-down and bottom-up teaching methods have

the same learning objectives but different ways
of achieving them.
• Top-down teaching is concerned with motivating
students to learn through direct interaction and
immersion, and allowing them to find meaning in
a subject by applying their own experiences.
• Bottom-up teaching is more instructor-driven and
focuses on the minutia of a subject as a way of
decoding and simplifying each component
through repetition and memorization.
 CONCLUSION
• Top-down teaching emphasizes instruction through context and
relies in part on a student's background and experience to acquire
knowledge, it may not provide the same level of specific subject
skills as a bottom-up teaching approach.

• Conversely, though a bottom-up teaching approach will strengthen

a student's grasp of a subject's fundamentals, it's lack of emphasis on
learning within the context of a larger whole may limit its
effectiveness.

• For example, students who learn the specific meaning of a word

may not understand how the meaning of that word changes based on
the culture where the word is used.