Intended and Enacted Curriculum in Education Process

A Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
a) Intended Curriculum and Enacted Curriculum........................................................................3
b) Description of Implemented or Enacted Curriculum..............................................................3
c) Orientations to Curriculum......................................................................................................5
d) Awareness of Curriculum and Development in Curriculum...................................................7
e) Tensions Due to Congruence Between Intended and Enacted Curriculum.............................8
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
A curriculum is basically defined as the summation of all student experiences gained by
people throughout the education process. Curriculum are known as basic process or planning of
sequences that will be followed in the education process to provide effective knowledge and
experiences to the students about particular subjected like Biology (Shipman, Bolam & Jenkins,
2018) . This is important for education organization to design effective curriculum to manage the
complete education process.
TASK 1
a) Intended Curriculum and Enacted Curriculum
Intended Curriculum
There are some objectives are designed by the authorities before planning a curriculum
for students related to a particular subjects. This is basic idea of setting up a plan for the whole
education process. This intended curriculum provide the specific aims to design the plan for the
education program. This can help the teachers and educational to maintain proper standard of
education for students. Some of big learning and teaching ideas are proposed in this intended
curriculum to provide basic ideas to the teachers to improve their teaching plan for better
execution.
Enacted Curriculum
The meaning of enacted curriculum is known as process that is used by the students in the
class rooms in real time. In the planning of the education process various curriculums are used in
order to provide better data and knowledge to students. Some of main curriculums are Intended
curriculum, assessed curriculum and learner curriculum. But the most part of education plan is
executed in the enacted curriculum (Sakai, Higuchi & Uesugi, 2018). Because this curriculum is
followed in the class room to provide the education of particular subject. For example practical
and theoretical knowledge of subject is provided to students in the enacted curriculum.
b) Description of Implemented or Enacted Curriculum
The implemented or enacted curriculum is a basic plan that I implemented in the
education process to meet the aims that are developed in the Intended Curriculum. This is
considered as the stage of implementing plans that are developed at the initiation of the course.
There are various short term and long term plan are executed as per the plans that are prepared
by the authorities and teachers. These plans are decided as per the targets that are developed in

the initial stage (Lord, Barr & Flanagan, 2018). At the execution level various strategies are used
to improve the information delivery process for the students to provide them better opportunities
in order to develop their knowledge effectively.
(i)Actions of Teachers
In the implementation process of the curriculum various activities are performed by the
teacher in order to make the planning effective and good for educating process. The activities
and actions of teacher are as per the aims of intended curriculum. The basic work perform by
teacher is delivering knowledge to students about the particular subject Biology. In this stage
different sources and technologies are used by tutor to deliver effective information and
experience to the students (Vignesh, Priya & Gayathri, 2018). Teacher use personal and public
communication to improve the knowledge of the students. In public communication teacher
provide information to students in form of lectures and speeches. In some cases they also use
written and e-Mail communication to communicate with individual student or group of students.
(ii)Actions of Students
The role of student and teacher and student is half half in the enacted or implemented
curriculum process because the duty of teacher is to provide information and knowledge to the
students. The role of student is also important in this process where they have to stay active and
attentive in class rooms to gain knowledge and information properly. This is also their role is to
attend there classes effectively to meet the learning goals of the education program. This is also
related to the effective utilisation educational resources and continuity in the communication
with teachers. By full filling this actions organization can effectively complete their study
targets.
(iii)Priority in Learning
This is important for the teachers to prioritised the education program to keep it based on
the result oriented. There are some goals and aims are designed in order to plan whole education
process accordingly. Some of aims are decided by the educational organization and teachers to
reduce the complexities in the education process (Sternszus, Saroyan & Steinert, 2017). Main
priorities as per the enacted plan are- Targeting the possible gaps in the education program to
avoid different troubles in process, most of the education process should be focused on the
experience based and students should be provided with the relevant data data and sources to
reduce the issues in the execution plan.