Systemic Curriculum

The Systemic Curriculum reflects a coherent systemic strategy for each level of the education system beginning from expectations to achievement. The important features of Systemic Curriculum or standard-based curriculum are:

1. Setting standards and learning outcomes for the students

2. Complete alignment among policies, curricular framework, instructional materials, classroom instruction and assessment

3. Reorganization of the whole education system for maximizing students’ achievement with respect to already specified learning outcomes

4. Evaluation of students’ achievements, identification of deficiencies and accountability of the concerned.

The basic concept behind systemic curriculum is having objectives, adopting measures to achieve these objectives, and assessing continually to see if all the elements are working harmoniously for achieving the specified objectives. The systemic curriculum is said to serve as egalitarian interests as it focuses on measures of equal access for all. It also facilitates in accountability of all the concerned educational stake-holders as it sets predetermined standards and efficiency of stake holders can be measured with respect to these standards. Here teacher tries to adhere to the already specified objectives or standards.