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Curriculum

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

/kəˈrɪkjələm/nounCore term

In education & teaching, curriculum means: The whole set of subjects, content and skills that students are expected to learn at a school or level, including how the learning is organized and assessed.

In Turkish: öğretim programı, müfredat, eğitim programı

How it is used

Common in policy documents, staff meetings and teacher training. A ministry or school designs, develops, implements or reviews a curriculum, and a topic can be on or in the curriculum. The plural is curricula (formal) or curriculums.

Example sentences

  1. Coding was added to the primary curriculum three years ago.

  2. We are reviewing the science curriculum to make room for more practical work.

Common collocations

  • design a curriculum
  • implement a curriculum
  • national curriculum
  • on the curriculum
  • curriculum development
  • syllabusA document that lists the topics, materials, assignments and assessment of one course, often with a week-by-week schedule.
  • learning outcomeA statement of the knowledge, skills or attitudes that students should be able to show at the end of a course, unit or program.
  • hidden curriculumThe unwritten values, attitudes and rules of behavior that students learn at school from routines, relationships and expectations, rather than from the official lessons.
  • cross-curricularConnecting two or more school subjects, so that students use knowledge and skills from different areas in the same topic or project.
  • scheme of workA plan that maps out the sequence of lessons, topics, activities and assessments for a subject over a unit, term or year.

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