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CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

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BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
ES-331 : CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION


1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Define the term Curriculum. Explain the basic considerations in Curriculum planning.

2. Describe Instructional planning. What are the steps involved in it ?

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What are various strategies of training to instil teaching skills among teachers ? Describe any one with suitable examples.

4. What do you mean by system approach to instruction ? How will you as a teacher, use system approach in teaching 
secondary school students ? Illustrate your answer with example.

5. Answer the following 
questions. Answer in about 150 words each :
(i) What are the different 
bases of curriculum development ?
{ii) What is micro teaching ? How is it different from simulated teaching ?
(iii) Describe three characteristics of instructional objectives in behavioural terms, with examples.
(iv) What is team teaching ? Discuss its merits and demerits.
(v) Differentiate between class-room management and class-room discipline.
{vi) Differentiate between norm referenced tests and criterion referenced tests.
(vii) Mention the aims and types of project work in brief.

6. Answer the following question in out 600 words.
After visiting a Learning Resource Centre or Teaching Aids library in a nearby 
college of education, write a critical report on the status and use of the resource centre.

1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What do you understand by the term Curriculum ? Explain the major approaches to Curriculum Development.

2. Describe the important activities to be taken for organising interactive session in the class. Illustrate with suitable examples.

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What is the meaning of probing skills ? Explain their uses with examples.

4. Explain with examples the various steps involved in preparation of instructional material.
5. Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :
(I) Explain the methods of curriculum evaluation.
(ii) What is a resource centre ? Mention the use of resource centre for a teacher.
(iii) Explain Hilda Taba Model of Curriculum Development.
(iv) Define instructional objectives with their advantages and limitations.
(v) Mention the innovative 
trends in curriculum.
(vi) Discuss the 
advantages and disadvantages of lecture method.
(vii) What do you mean by activity based instruction ? Explain with examples.

6. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
While imparting instruction in your classroom, you must have come across many classroom problems. Describe how did you manage them.

1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
'The main problems of curriculum are lack of sequence, continuity and integration of content included in curriculum.' Discuss the 
statement with convincing arguments.

2. Describe the components and sub-system of a given instructional system and explain their integration.

3. Answer the following ql.restion in about 600 words'
Describe as to how the teacher, the student and the environment can function as resources for instruction.

4. Discuss the mechanisms of efleclive management of instruction.

5. Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :
(i) Discuss how a well planned curriculum can make teaching and learning more effective.
(ii) Discuss the role of different types of reinforcements in classroom teaching.
(iii) Describe learner-related factors which influence curriculum developrhent and transaction.
(iv) Describe the role of formative evaluation in curriculum development.
(v) Identify common defects of teaching through demonstration and suggest suitable measures to remove them.
(vi) Fxplain with examples the procedure of conducting group-investigation of a problem.
(vii) How will you formulate instructional strategy for your teaching ? Discuss.

6. Answer the following question in about 600 words'
You have studied about flow-charting the content in 
Block 3,/ES-331.
(i) Analyse the content of a topic of your choice from your discipline/subject and present it through a
flow chart.
(iil Justify the flow chart you have presented.

1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What do you mean by the concept "curriculum emluation" ? Why do we evaluate curriculum ? Discuss.

2. Describe with example the input-process-output model of a system as 
applicable to any instructional system.

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Explain with examples various teaching skills required for effective teaching at the Secondary/Senior .Secondary School 
level.



4. Discuss with examples the following training strategies :
(i) Interaction analysis
(ii) Simulation

5.. Answer each question in about 150 words
(i) How is Tyler's Model of curriculum construction different from Taba's Model ?

(ii) Explain the role of various factors to be taken into view while planning a curriculum :
(iii) Identify and briefly a<plain the causes that make a given instructional system inefficient.
(iv) Dfferentiate between various styles of programmed instruction.
(v) Describe the organisation and evaluation of the micro-teaching approach.
(vi) Discuss various levels of instruction with the help of examples.
(vii) Discuss merits and demerits of activity based instruction.

6. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
You have studied instructional media in Block 4/ES 331. You must have watched/listened to some educational TV /radio programme.
o Present an overview of the content, objectives, format and learning outcomes of the programme.
o Discuss the rationale for selection of the 
medium (television or radio).
o Suggest measures to improve effectiveness of the programme.

1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What are different viewpoints on the concept of curriculum ? Which one do you prefer most and why ?

2. Discuss the organisation of the three types of instructional systems. Describe teacher's role in these systems.

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Describe the various types of teacher-based instructional activities, with examples, from the subject that you are teaching.

4. Describe various techniques of classroom management which help in better learning outcomes.

5. Answer the following questions. Answer each question in about 150 words :
(i) Explain and differentiate between macro-level and micro-level curriculum evaluation.
(ii) What are the components of communication system and how are they relevant to classroom instruction ?
(iii) Differentiate between simulated teaching and micro teaching.
(iv) Write instructional objectives of any topic you have taught in your class with mental abilities involved in them.
(v) Discuss the components associated with the skill of stimulus variation.
(vi) Briefly describe various instructional resources with special reference to environment as a resource.

6.. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
"You, as a teacher, might have felt that the existing curriculum of secondary or senior secondary school should be need-based and related to socio-economic and political scenario of the society." What are the emerging trends in curriculum for the future so as to produce socially productive citizens ?

1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Explain the three major approaches to curriculum development with suitable examples.

2. Describe in brief six aspects of a curriculum which determine various approaches of developing it.

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
What are the various strategies pertaining to instruction and classroom management required to manage your instructional activities most effectively ?

4. Discuss instructional objectives on the basis of Bloom's cognitive system or REIM system.

5. Answer the following questions. Answer each question in about 150 words :

(i) Discuss with suitable examples various innovative teaching techniques adopted by a teacher in transacting the curriculum.
(ii) What skills are needed to use various media in the teaching-learning process to cater to the individual differences of your students ?
(iii) Discuss the role of the teacher in curriculum planning.
(iv) Write a short note on Computer-Assisted Instruction.
(v) Why are some students non-responsive to the questions asked ? What remedial mechanism is required for such students ?
(vi) Identify and briefly explain various resources that could be used to make instruction effective.
(vii) Why do the teachers prefer non-projected to projected visual media ? Give suitable examples of both the media.

6. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
During teacher's training programme you are supposed to acquire requisite competencies and skills to teach effectively. State those skills and competencies and explain as to how they are helpful in making an effective teacher.


1. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Differentiate among process, structure and humanistic approaches to curriculum.

2.Discuss the relative influence of development and social considerations of curriculum planning.

3. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Describe the input-process-output model of a system as applicable to any instructional system.

4. What do you mean by activity-based instruction ? Discuss its merits and demerits.

5. Answer the following questions. Answer each question in about 150 words.
(i) Discuss the importance of formative evaluation in developing need-based curriculum.
(ii) Differentiate learning from instruction. Support your answer with suitable examples.
(iii) How will you assess the effectiveness of the lecture method ?
(iv) Write short notes on the following :
(a) Analysis category/level of cognitive objectives
(b) Synthesis category/level of cognitive objectives
(v) Discuss the role of classroom management in effective teaching.
(vi) Discuss the advantages of cooperative learning in your classroom.
(vii) How does the skill of questioning make your teaching more effective ? Discuss.
(viii) Why should we use Over Head Projector (OHP) in comparison to other projected media ? How will you prepare OHP transparencies ?

6.. Answer the following question in about 600 words.
Choose a topic of your interest from the subject of the area you are teaching in your school. Develop programmed learning material on it using linear style.

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