Skill Based Curriculum An Approach towards Skill based

Skill Based Curriculum An Approach towards Skill based Academic Designed By Dr. V. Akilandeswari AP(Sr. Gr)/CSE K. L. N College of Engineering

Workshop Objectives • By the end of this Session, participants will be able to: – Define Skill-based curriculum – Needs of Skill-based Curriculum development – Describe the Six-step approach to curriculum development – Develop a program or course curriculum using the six-step approach.

Overview of the Presentation • • Introduction Objective What is curriculum? Curriculum Development Advantage of skill based Curriculum Challenges in Active Learning Challenges in Group Learning

Introduction • Skill Based learning provides class room environments where independence thinking skills, collaborative and active learning are developed at the same time as knowledge is acquired.

Objective • To learn the specific language skills. • To develop more general competence in the language, learning only incidentally any information that may be available while applying the language skills.

Curriculum • The subjects comprising a course of study – Needs • WHY You teach? – Content • WHAT you teach? – Organization • HOW You teach? – Evaluation • How you TEST?

Six-step approach • Step 1: Principles and purpose “Knowing what you want to achieve and why you want to achieve it” – A broad and balanced curriculum will equip our children with a breadth of knowledge and skills in all areas of the curriculum. – Identify Required Competencies

Six-step approach

Six-step approach • Step 2: Entitlement and enrichment “Deciding what you consider to be nonnegotiables for your children. ” - Set Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Six-step approach • Step 3: Breath and Balance Organization “ Making choices about what to teach, in how much depth, and how to structure it” - Develop Learning your own experiences through teaching methodologies

Six-step approach • Step 4: Evaluate and Review “Reflecting on your choices and checking your coverage” - Integrate Assessments

Curriculum Development • Step 5: Teaching narrative “Develop a series of lessons that deliver your curriculum content”

Six-step approach • Step 6: Resources “Identifying the resources you will need to deliver a high-quality curriculum. ”

Step 1: Principles and purpose • Ex: Data Structure and Algorithm – Data Structures gives different organizations of data and mechanisms for accessing the data efficiently. – It is becoming core elements of other engineering disciplines. – It can’t be explained efficiently with traditional Chalk and Talk method. – Some innovative teaching techniques are needed to explain the concepts like different data structuresstack and queue, searching and sorting algorithms and their complexities etc.

Step 1: Principles and purpose Determine Competencies Job Tasks – Write different organization methods like Stack , Queue etc. – Identify the concept with real world application

Knowledge • Know What Stack, Queue, Computer Algorithms like divide and conquer, greedy approach and dynamic programming.

Skills • Know How Queue can be used, if we want to access the data in the same order we input it. Stack can be used, if we want to retrieve the data in reverse order we input it. Computer Algorithm helps to tackle different real life problems needing computations.

Attitude • Know Why – They provide algorithms to solve the computational problems and helps to select the optimal solution, if having more than one solutions to solve a problem.

People are able to … Learning Outcomes People generally remember … Learning Activities Define, Describe, List and Examples Analyze Define Create Evaluate Passive Learning Demonstrate, Apply and Practice 10% what they need Active Learning 20% what they hear 30% what they see 50% what they see and hear 70% what they say and write 90% what they do

Advantage of Skill Based Curriculum • Used to improve the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics as well as for problem solving and the development of higher order thinking skills • Empowering students to be more skillful thinkers, to have the tools to be more critical in their thinking • To help students become independent Thinkers they need patterns for thinking.

Challenges in Active Learning • • Time Constraint Indiscipline Discomfort due to physical environment Disinterest

Challenges in Group Learning Absence of cooperation among participants Unequal Participation Pressure of Performance Immediate evaluation of outcomes may be premature • Changing Decision making Procedures • •

Conclusion • Student centric Innovative Teaching Learning methodologies – With a system of Continuous Assessment and Evaluation – with suitable support at all levels augmented by enrichment initiatives will result in Student progression. • A structured mechanism to collect and analyse data on student learning outcomes attainment at course level and programme level is essential to help in attainment of Programme educational objective, resulting in competent engineer for the society.