Write down a Critical Essay on the Current Syllabus of Urdu taught at Grade Five.
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Curriculum is typically a phenomenon which includes many dimensions of learning, including rationale, aims, content, methods, resources, time, assessment, etc; which refers to various levels of planning and decision-making on learning (for example, at the supra-, macro-, meso-, micro- and nano-levels); or, international, national, local, classroom and individual levels; and which relates to multiple representations of learning (for example, as already mentioned, ‘intended’, ‘implemented’, ‘attained’, etc). Curriculum can be understood as the totality of what children learn while at school – including what they learn through classroom activities; in interdisciplinary tasks; across the school, for example, in the playground, at lunch time when eating (civic responsibilities, etc.). This curricular totality also includes opportunities for wider achievement through sport, music, debating, and the like. For the purposes of this paper, curriculum is defined in a holistic, process-oriented way. This definition is based on the belief that, while curriculum might commonly be perceived as a set of documents, the quality of those documents is closely connected to the processes used to develop them and to the means through which they are put into practice. In other words, judging the quality of the curriculum itself cannot be done in isolation from the broader processes of curriculum development, implementation and evaluation.
The syllabus has been structured to cover each of the three years of Primary 1-3. Each year·s work has been grouped under five sections or themes (Diversity of matter, Cycles, Systems, Energy and Interactions of matter). Each of these themes is related to everyday experiences of the child, and to commonly observed phenomena in the child·s environment. The main aim is to enable pupils appreciate the links between different scientific topics and thus help them to integrate scientific ideas in dealing with phenomena. The sections/themes cover a core of concepts which provide broad based understanding of the environment upon which the foundation for further study could be built.
Diversity of matter
- Variety and characteristics of living things
- Materials
- Classification of organisms and materials
- Life cycles of the mosquito
- Water cycle
- Day and night cycles
- Convection and ventilation
- Reproduction in plants and animals
- Land and sea breezes etc.