The Strengths and Drawback of Tyler and Taba Model in Developing of Curriculum

The Strengths and Drawback of Tyler and Taba Model in Developing of Curriculum

Definition of Curriculum

Curriculum refers to the formal education, which basically offered from schools and other educational institutions, this is basically the set of courses and content as well. The word curriculum belongs to the Latin word. That word is race course, in education this word refers to the course of deeds and ideas by which an individual has to pass since childhood till the completion of his or her education.

The curriculum planning the activities for academic in general, it determines by some specific plans and programs for study which student need to be understand, and this determination based upon the grade and standard of the level of student. This is also the way by which the teacher enables the training for the student. This involves the topics which students need to be covered during the period of their studies and as per their standard of education. Although there are various definition for curriculum and has been defined by several scholars and some of them are faintly confusing. As per Ronald Doll, he refers the curriculum is the process of informal and formal content which used for the students or learners for giving them the understanding and knowledge also developing the skills, appreciations, altering values and attitudes in the institutions.

Syllabus and course are other terms which used as the synonyms of curriculum. But most appropriate and suitable term is curriculum because it has wide horizon which includes the syllabus and course terms as well (Levit, 1971).

The Hilda Taba Model

Hilda Taba was also the proposed the curriculum development in her book which was published in 1962. The book named Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice. She stated that there must be specific order for creating the curriculum. Also recommend the grass roots approach and as she had a belief that teacher should participate for developing the curriculum. The model she presented was also called the grassroots efforts, since she supported the teachers not only for the teaching approach but also need to participate in the curriculum development. Hence, she presented seven steps for developing the curriculum.

Moreover she considered that model which Tyler presented, that was more concern with the administrative. It was based upon the decision making, from concerned authorities such as Ministry of Education or Central Office. There are seven steps which she presented are listed below (Taba, 1962).

Step-1: Diagnosis of needs

This step refers to the designer of the curriculum that is teacher, and suggested that teachers must have to recognize the requirement of the learners so that the teacher can design the curriculum accordingly. For instance the recognition of critical thinking capability of the students, whether all the students are able to think critically or not.

Step-2: Formulation of Objectives

This step refers to the selection of objectives after recognition of the areas which need to grab the attention. Once the needs are identified then teachers can ...