Management Curriculum

Management Curriculum

A.  Managing Curriculum

The curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding the objectives, content and learning materials as well as the way used as implementation guidelines for learning activities to achieve specific educational objectives.

Managing curriculum is a curriculum management system that is cooperative, comprehensive, systemic and systematic in order to realize the achievement of the objectives of the curriculum. Curriculum management is a process of joint venture or cooperation within an organization through a systematic and coordination regulate and facilitation the achievement of objectives in school teaching effectively and efficiently.

In a simple and more easily studied in depth, the scope of the management curriculum is as follows: 1) management planning, 2) management of curriculum implementation, 3) supervision of the implementation of the curriculum, 4) monitoring and assessment of curriculum, 5) curriculum improvement,  6) decentralization and centralization of curriculum development.

There are several principles that should be considered in implementing mnajemen curriculum is, productivity, democratization, cooperative, effective and efficiency, and directing the vision, mission and objectives set out in the curriculum.

B.  Organization of the curriculum

In the organization of the curriculum known various forms of organization of the curriculum including the following:

1.  Curriculum subjects

A curriculum which consists of a number of subjects separately (isolated subjects). Here the number of subjects taught on their own without any relationship to other subjects.

2.  The curriculum is correlated between subjects

The curriculum is an attempt to reduce the disadvantages as a result of the separation of subjects. The procedure is conveying the points are correlated in order to facilitate students understand certain subjects

3.  The curriculum is integrated/unified

The curriculum is likely to be looking at that in an integrated subject, or integrated as a whole. The integration can be achieved through the convergence of lessons on a particular issue with alternative solutions through a variety of disciplines or subjects that are necessary so that the boundaries between subjects can be eliminated.

4.  Core curriculum

Program curriculum core of the problem is a program in the form of units of issue, where problems are taken from a particular subject, and many other subjects are given through learning activities in an effort to solve the problem, in a nutshell this curriculum is the curriculum developed by the problems and needs of students.

C.   Managing Curriculum Development

Curriculum development cover’s planning, implementation, and evaluation, curriculum planning is the first step to build curricilum when the curriculum makers make decisions and take action to produce a plan that will be used by teachers and learners.

Curriculum development, used the principles that have been developed in daily life. Principles of curriculum development is divided into two groups: a) general principles, which includes, relevance, flexibility, kontinunitas, practical, and efectivity. b) specific principles, including, with respect to the principle that the purpose of education, educational content selection, the selection of teaching and learning process, the selection of media and learning tools, assessment and selection activities.