APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DESIGN There are different approaches in developing the curriculum.

Well known educators developed approaches which guide the implementer in making a strategic curriculum plan. In this topic, the lecturer focuses on four approaches in curriculum. The subject-centered curriculum can be focused on traditional areas in the traditional disciplines. It involves processes such as problem solving. A curriculum can also be organized around a subject center by focusing on certain processes, strategies, or life-skills, such as problem solving, decision making, or teamwork. In the Philippines, our curricula in any level is also divided in different subjects or courses. Most of the schools using this kind of structure aim for excellence in the subject matter content. Problem-centered curriculum, or problem based learning, organizes subject matter around a problem, real or hypothetical, that needs to be solved. Problemcentered curriculum is inherently engaging and authentic, because the students have a real purpose to their inquiry -- solving the problem. The child-centered curriculum or it might be called as learner-centered curriculum. Hence, the child or the student is the learner that is the main focus of the curriculum. Child- centered on certain aspects of the learners themselves. It may explore the learners own life or family history or local environment. Human Relations-Centered Curriculum focuses on the human relations are learned. The implementer of the curricula focuses on the problem that the child experience in their daily lives. It uses the available resources and different diagnostic technique.