Good...Better...Best Curriculum

Lebanese curriculum is out of date. It is not a manner of expiry date but it is a manner of teaching old and meaningless facts relatively to the days and the improvement we reached. We are in the twentieths centuries and still teaching the students that the sun arises from the east and that earth is an elliptical shape…so come on curricular designers.

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I think the Lebanese curriculum should be modified to follow the updates in the sciences, Math, geography, history, etc. Also it should be modified to teach the concepts and main ideas rather than teaching facts and details which limit the learners thinking.

This curriculum should be changed to teach for understanding, analysis, problem-solving application, evaluation and creation and not only memorization and writing what teachers need to read or what teachers ordered us to say. So a new curriculum should be designed according to bloom’s taxonomy and Gardner’s multiple intelligences considerations.

This new curriculum should be modified to increase learners’ motivation and encouragement, to enhance their critical thinking and to evoke their curiosity to seek for new knowledge. Besides it should include a lot and long training periods for teachers to be able to get rid of the memorization dress and wear the new dress which grasps learners’ attention and hooks them in the educational field.