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Running head: CURRICULUM EXPANSION
Author’s name:
Tanisha Hannah
Institutional affiliation:
Strayer University
Name of instructor:
Manuel Johnican
Date:
May 3rd, 2020
Introduction
There are several learning activities that take place in a school environment and all these are aimed at improving and enhancing the learners understanding. However, in any learning environment there are challenges that arise and these challenges in most cases hinders schools from achieving their goal. The challenges affect different people in a school institution; there could be those that affect the learners or the teachers or sometimes even both. It is important however, that these needs be addressed for any school goal to be achieved.
A need analysis for curriculum expansion
Pointing out the need
There are several factors that are leading to the need of expansion of the curriculum. Of these, the most important is overpopulation which is experienced by several countries (Rodder,2018). It tends to slow down any economic development of a country. Aside that, the agricultural sector experience some straining as they try to attend to the overpopulation, in turn there is food shortage experienced and unemployment cases also tend to rise. For this therefore, there is a need for population education whose main aim would be to lower the large sized families. It’s possible that the overpopulation was bought by the lack of knowledge on ways of controlling birth rate, population education not being available in remote areas for youth who stopped schooling and also the disadvantages of having a very large family.
Population education analysis
Although population education has been added in secondary curriculum, the youths living in rural areas are unable to access the information as only a small percentage are able to attend classroom lessons (Weng,2019). Population education need would therefore be necessary to help rural youths point out the dangers of having a large family and how they can prevent having those large families.
Characteristics of the learner for a need of curriculum expansion
There are several characteristics that are associated with curriculum expansion. They include: the marital status of the youth, their means of income, the number of children they desire to have, their age, their lifestyle and the number of siblings the youth has.
Instructional objectives
Cognitive:
By the end of the talk the youth will be able to identify and distinguish between the advantages and disadvantages of having a large family over a small family in such an environment.
Behavioral:
By the end of the session the youth will be able to apply and use the right birth control methods within the first three months.
Affective domains:
By the end of the population education at the rural areas the youths of that specific area should be able to explain and follow the right procedures for them to avoid unplanned pregnancies and together with their spouses identify the right family planning method for them to use.
Procedural analysis flow chart for the project.
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