Hilda Taba Model of Curriculum Development: Presentation Topic

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HILDA TABA MODEL OF

CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
Curriculum Models
WHAT IS CURRICULUM MODELS ?
• Curriculum model is a broad term referring to
the guide used to write curriculum guides, or
the documents used in education to determine
specific aspects of teaching, such as subject,
time frame, and manner of instruction.
• A simplified representation of reality which is
often depicted in diagrammatic form.
Curriculum Models
• Models serve as guidline to action.
• Models are found in almost every form of
education.
• The education profession has models of
instruction, of administration, of evaluation, of
supervision.
• Curriculum models are designed to provide a
basis for decisions regarding the selection,
structuring and sequencing of the educational
experiences
Hilda Taba
• The Taba Model was developed by Hilda Taba (1902
– 1967), an architect, a curriculum theorist, a
curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator.
• The Taba Model is used to enhance the thinking
skills of students. Hilda Taba believed that there
must be a process for evalutating student
achievement of content after the content standards
have been established and implemented.
• The main concept of this approach to curriculum
development is that teachers must be involved in
the development of the curriculum.
Taba’s philosophical ideas on
curriculum development
• Social processes, including the socialization of human
beings, are not linear, and they cannot be modeled
through linear planning. In other words, learning and
development of personality cannot be considered as
one-way processes of establishing educational aims
and deriving specific objectives from an ideal of
education proclaimed or imagined by some authority.
• The reconstruction of curriculam and programmes is
not a short-term effort but a long process, lasting for
years.
Taba’s philosophical ideas on
curriculum development
• Social institutions, among them school curriculam and
programmes, are more likely to be effectively rearranged
if, instead of the common way of administrative
reorganization—from top to bottom— a well-founded
and co-ordinated system of development from bottom
to top can be used.
• The development of new curriculam and programmes is
more effective if it is based on the principles of
democratic guidance and on the well-founded
distribution of work. The emphasis is on the partnership
based on competence, and not on administration.
Taba model
• Taba model is inductive approach.
• Taba model is teacher approach.
• Taba believe that teachers are aware of the
students needs hence they should be the one to
develop the curriculum.
• Taba’s is the Grass-root approach.
• The main idea to this approach is that the needs
of the students are at the forefront to the
curriculum.
Taba model
• Taba advocated an inductive approach to
curriculum development.
• In the inductive approach, curriculum
workers start with the specifics and
build up to a general design as opposed
to the more traditional deductive
approach of starting with the general
design and working down to the specifics.
Steps in Taba Model
1. Diagnosis of learners needs and
expectations of the larger society.
2. Formulation of learning objectives.
3. Selection of the learning content.
4. Organization of learning content.
5. Selection of the learning experiences.
6. Organization of learning activities.
7. Determination of what to evaluate and
the means of doing it.
Steps in Taba Model
Steps in Taba Model
Taba's model in relating to
Malaysian Education System
• According to Ministry of Education MOE, the
administration and management of education in
Malaysia is central.
• Teachers may only be involved in implementing the
curriculum while the main part of the curriculum is
determined by the Ministry of Education.
• Teacher should understand students' backgrounds,
cultures and how they learn.
• Teacher should be the researchers for their own
classroomsand of their own students.
• Learners need to be able to connect the content to
the curriculum. If they are unable to do so, the
content is meaningless in their world.
• Students must employ their own experiences and
background knowledge to build upon when
learning newmaterials.
• Teacher should also finds ways to connect the
content to students’ lives.
• The national curriculum be used in all school
(Malaysia – curriculum). There is a common central
assessment and examinations at the end of the
respective periods of schooling and the national
language, which is Malay is the official language of
instruction.
• Students’ maturity, academic achievement and
interests should be taken into consideration.
• Teacher should understand that not all students
learn the same way, and it is his responsibility to
provide a variety of instructional methods to the
students.
• In taba' model teacher plays a major role in their
educational system but in today's Malaysian
educational system mostly student centered are
being used.
• Student centered learning focuses on the student
instead of the teacher.
• Student centered learning emphasizes the transfer
of knowledge and output from the students itself.
• Having students learning through apps puts
teachers at a disadvantage in the classroom
because they are now faced with students who
show different levels of knowledge and skills. It
also puts pressure on teachers to rely more on
technology, not something many necessarily feel
comfortable with.

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