Personalised curriculum management

Course Code: MET2103 • Study year: II • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Education Sciences - Masters • Field of study: Psycho-pedagogy of Early Education and Small Schooling
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Grigore-Dan Iordachescu
Seminar tutor: Grigore-Dan Iordachescu
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Lecture
Number of teaching hours per semester: 14
Number of teaching hours per week: 1
Semester: Autumn
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 5

Course aims:

Developing the ability to critically analyze curricular processes and products;
Developing the ability to design, implement and evaluate differentiated and personalised curriculum
Developing a positive attitude for the field of professionalism by basing it on a correct understanding of the importance of achieving an effective personalized curriculum management

Course Entry Requirements:

Basic knowledge in the field of curriculum theory and methodology acquired during undergraduate studies, through professional experience and / or in non-formal or informal learning contexts.

Course contents:

1. Knowledge with its different meanings in the contemporary world: knowledge-assimilation-understanding; knowledge society - knowledge production. 
Analytical-critical approach of some phrases from the specialized literature 2. Fundamental concepts: management - curriculum management (broad and narrow meaning of the term) 3. Perspectives of analysis of the curriculum system as a complex conceptual system 4. Hypostases of the curriculum: hypostases specific to the ideea of ​​personalization and correlative to it 5. Personalised curriculum - directions of analysis; different approaches; different hypostases. 6. Concrete ways to achieve personalization in curriculum design 7. Concrete ways of accomplishment in the curricular implementation and on the evaluation sequence

Teaching methods:

Lecture, Examples, Conversation, Exercise, Algorithmization, Academic controversy

Learning outcomes:

1. power point presentation for one of the topics in the subject of the discipline of your choice
2. definitions and short presentations for the concepts: DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM, PERSONALIZED CURRICULUM, PERSONALIZED INTERVENTION PLAN.
3. a didactic project for a topic of your choice WITH A PERSONALIZED VARIANT FOR A STUDENT / PRESCHOOL STUDENT WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Develop a portfolio of tools and applications in accordance with the specified requirements as outcomes.

Recommended reading:

Anne Campbell & Lin Norton, Learning, Teaching and Assessing in Higher Education: Developing Reflective Practice, Learning Matters, London, 2010, 5-80.
David Middlewood & Neil Burton, Managing the Curriculum, SAGE Publications Ltd, New York, 2001, 5-100.
Kellan Sparks (Editor), Curriculum Management: Teaching and Learning, Willford Press, London, 2017, 5-100.