Compare and contrast subject-centered and student-centered curriculum, and provide an example of each

What will be an ideal response?


Subject-centered curriculum focuses on a single area, with students studying the same topics. This silo approach places emphasis on acquisition, memorization, and knowledge within a specific content area. An example of subject-centered curriculum is spiral curriculum. Student-centered curriculum is non-authoritative and participation-focused. It provides opportunities for students to have increased responsibility to identify their own learning needs. Core curriculum and activity-centered curriculum are examples.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Warm, friendly and creative are all words that describe the authoritarian adult

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Two days before her high school graduation (and one day before all of her out-of-town relatives arrived), Nichole cut her long hair into a short boyish style. She also dyed her auburn hair black and pierced her tongue. Her parents were stunned and concerned that her tongue appeared to be getting infected. They wondered what Nichole's grandparents would say. What do we know about cognitive

development in adolescence that might help us understand Nichole's behavior? What will be an ideal response?

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Three of the following illustrate the Gestalt notion that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts." Which one does not reflect this idea?

a. Abby notices that a row of flashing lights look like a single moving light. b. Bobby gazes at the stars and notices how a cluster of seven stars forms the shape of a tennis racket. c. Cubby is learning the concept brighter. He is shown a dim light and a bright light and told that the second light is brighter. When he later sees the same bright light and an even brighter one, he correctly identifies the new light as being brighter. d. Debby learns that "2 plus 2 equals 4" and repeats this fact to herself over and over again until she knows it perfectly.

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