Curriculum not only the transaction between teacher and student, students and the activities, students and experiences but the transaction between social and personal construct. Syllabus is different from curriculum, syllabus is only the subsection of curriculum. Curriculum covered broader areas such as, content, detailed of aims, goals and objectives, detailed learning activities and evaluation procedures.

The best curriculum, I must focus on intended, enacted and experienced curriculum.

1. Intended

Intended curriculum is another word for syllabus. Intended curriculum as educational process under a type of control for particular purposes. The curriculum planning is targeted at students' learning outcomes by careful consideration and balancing the different views of community members on the learners who are to be focused. The main focus is on students' performance, interacting and experiencing the curriculum.

Intended curriculum has three main parts; aim, goal and objective.

The aim of the curriculum is to provide effective learning for the students. In planning the intended curriculum, situational analysis is to be taken into consideration. Before planning the curriculum, there will have some discussion among the teachers concerning the types of communities, area where the individual is living, the norm of the communities, the learners' needs, requirements and contents of the curriculum need to be enacted. Situational analysis is diagnosis the needs of the schools, regions and systemic levels to be developed in the curriculum. Situational analysis enabled the curriculum to be planned in a more appropriate way towards goals, aims, objectives and content.

Next, the goals are to be considered, how to get there, for example, in class, by pairing, research and knowledge of how to achieve it.

Objective has two types:
i) The product objective involves in observable behavior, the condition and the criteria.
ii) The process objective involves in thinking, acting and learning.

2. Enacted

In the process of development of the enacted curriculum, what needs to be comprised and considered, this includes; roles of the teachers, setting in organizing the experiences the individuals would encounter and resources. Billet and Stevenson stated the role of the teachers are; implementers, adapters, developers and researchers. Students occupy the center stage in learning who are committed to participate in the active process of learning

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