Curriculum
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In formal education, a curriculum ( / k ə ˈ r ɪ k jʉ l əm /; plural: curricula / k ə ˈ r ɪ k jʉ l ə / or curriculums) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults. A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard. Curriculum has numerous definitions, which can be slightly confusing. In its broadest sense a curriculum may refer to all courses offered at a school. This is particularly true of schools at the university level, where the diversity of a curriculum might be an attractive point to a potential student. A curriculum may also refer to a defined and prescribed course of studies, which students must fulfill in order to pass a certain level of education. For example, an elementary school might discuss how its curriculum, or its entire sum of lessons and teachings, is designed to improve national testing scores or help students learn the basics. An individual teacher might also refer to his or her curriculum, meaning all the subjects that will be taught during a school year. On the other hand, a high school might refer to a curriculum as the courses required in order to receive one’s diploma. They might also refer to curriculum in exactly the same way as the elementary school, and use curriculum to mean both individual courses needed to pass, and the overall offering of courses, which help prepare a student for life after high school. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Nouncurriculum (genitive curriculī); n, second declension Inflection Number Singular Plural nominative curriculum curricula genitive curriculī curriculōrum dative curriculō curriculīs accusative curriculum curricula ablative curriculō curriculīs vocative curriculum curriculaFrom Wiktionary under the
GNU Free Documentation License Matching Results for Curriculum:Shimer CollegeShimer was founded in 1853, and adopted the current curriculum in 1950. ... Only after the first semester did I realize how awesome the curriculum was. ... Ivan Illich The latent function of schooling, that is, the hidden curriculum, which forms individuals into needy people who know that they have now satisfied ... Ferdinand Eisenstein Curriculum Vitae - an autobiographical statement written when Eisenstein was 20, ... Curriculum Vitae (1843) [edit] Quotes of others about Eisenstein ... From Wikiquote under the
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Science: Chemistry: Education ChemCases.com - An NSF-supported curriculum development project, ChemCases is a web-based resource of curriculum supplements for teaching the second semester general ... Kids: Arts This category in other languages: Bulgarian (1) Catalan (18) Chinese (47) Chinese Simplified (23) Croatian (5) Czech (83) Danish (5) Dutch (140) Farsi (1) French (226) Kids: People and Society: Biography ... Provides brief biography, patent list, curriculum vitae and illustrations. Great and Famous Inventors ...
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