Five Stages Of Curriculum Review Process
The field of education is continuously changing to meet the need of today's world. What needs to be updated on a regular basis in the education sector? It is obviously a curriculum!
How does it can be changed? With a continuous review of the existing curriculum!
What is curriculum review?
It is a cyclic process in which a set of curriculum is evaluated to understand the current needs of the students and the education system. The current requirements are then compared with the existing curriculum to explore whether the current curriculum meet the needs or not.
The curriculum reviewers or the schools following standardized curriculums such as the UK curriculum schools in Dubai will look for four primary questions during the process.
What are the priorities in the student learning process?
How can we improve the skills of the students to the level that it will meet the standards?
Is there any positivity in the last changes which were made?
Where are we heading to regarding learning process?
The five-step curriculum review process
Curriculum review is a critical process, and there are five steps which will ensure the comprehensiveness of the review process.
Review and reflect
The first step in the process is to review and reflect in which the current status of the curriculum is explored by asking a question such as where we stand at the moment.
Have an in-depth look at each element of the curriculum and extract the information which will be useful in the review process.
Draw some parallel pattern out of the extracted information and check how different it is from what is expected today.
The next question you would ask is what the benchmarks for the present curriculum are? Look for the set parameters and process on the benchmarks.
In the reflection section of this step, there can be goals and aim for the curriculum modification and review. The curriculum can be a part of the step making a reflection of the curriculum.
Imagine
This step comes after reflection which is about how to proceed on what we have reflected. The central question which becomes the baseline for this step is we have reflected on what we need but how will we make it happen?
There are two ways you can go about that
Look for the online process to review and improve the curriculum-Online processes are usually the ones which people have already experienced
Plan your own way of evaluating the curriculum. You can use standardized guidelines along the way as used in UK curriculum schools in Dubai.
Depending on nature and reflection regarding your the curriculum you can choose one way.
You can also have a discussion session with all the stakeholders involved in the curriculum administration and curriculum designing process.
Think about anything and everything that can be helped along the way.
Revise and plan
As you know which way you would want to go for the review the process now in this step you need to revise the brainstormed ideas into a proper plan.
Identify the support or resources which will result in the implementation of the review of the curriculum. Plan something interesting and innovative which will enhance the overall learning process.
Plan everything that will work and will need to change-explore the possible risk factors ahead.
Before implementation of the action, take the feedback from the experts and also compare the old and reviewed curriculum.
Act
After you have a plan in hand then now it is time for the action.
Provide the implementation plan to the stakeholders such as school administrations, teachers, curriculum planner and even to the parents.
Evaluation
This is the last phase of the cyclic review process, and in this phase, you identify gaps and existing practices. Check if all the needs which were reflected in the first step are address during the implementation. For example, if the purpose of the curriculum review was to update it according to the current trends and needs then look for that.
The curriculum review evaluation is essential as schools other than UK curriculum schools in Dubai might not be providing quality education which meets the need.
Ask questions in this phase like
Did the review work?
Has it addressed what it was supposed to address?
Has it enhances the learning process?
Has it positively impacted the student learning process?
Once you have evaluated, then the process will continue to answer the existing gaps, and it will go on and on.














