Findings
Customized curricula
Under the new national curriculum, schools have autonomy in developing
their own school curriculum to meet their particular needs. Figure 1 shows
the procedure schools usually take to set up their own curriculum (Min et al.,
2012, p. 238).
Figure 1: School curriculum development procedure
- School curriculum committee
- Syllabus design
- Subject teacher meeting
- Selection of elements required
in the school’s curriculum - Curriculum development
- Progress chart
- Subject teaching plan
- Teaching and learning
- Assessment
- Conduct student needs analysis
- Conduct subject analysis
- Conduct syllabus analysis
- Conduct analysis of textbooks and teacher guide
- Select similar topics: inter-subject and
intra-subject - Select topics for adjusting the learning schedule
- Select topics for student levels
- Review possibility of developing the new
curriculum - Select topics
- Create the annual teaching plan
- Adjust the teaching schedule
- Undertake the teaching and learning planning
- Implement learning within inter-subjects
- Implement learning within intra-subjects
- Implement learning for di erent student levels
- Identify problems
- Improve the curriculum and materials
Source: Min et al., 2012, p. 238.