1. EDU555 Curriculum and Instruction Encik Muhamad Furkan Mat Salleh
Educational Emphasis
EDU555
Curriculum and Instruction
Encik Muhamad Furkan Mat Salleh

2. Educational Emphasis
“Current development in education that will help learners prepare for the world of work and social life”

3. Thinking Skills Not a specific topic/content
Can be divided into 2 – critical and creative thinking skills
Incorporate in the lesson, by referring to the learning outcomes:
To enable learners to analyse information
Make decisions
Solve problems
Express themselves accurately and creatively in language

4. Conceptualise, Make Decision, Solve Problems
Thinking Skills
Critical thinking the ability to evaluate an idea
Creative thinking generate and produce ideas
Reasoning to evaluate using series of logical steps
Thinking Strategy 
Creative Skills
Critical skills
Conceptualise, Make Decision, Solve Problems

5. Science Process Skills
Skills that should be given in science classroom.
Important to help the students to have better understanding of science content.
Examples – Observing, Classfying, Inferring, Hypothesizing, Predicting

6. Manipulative Skills
Involve the use of psychomotor skills in science lesson.
Particularly in conducting experiments.
Example – use and handle the apparatus correctly, cleaning and storing the apparatus, handling specimen etc.

7. Learning How To Learn
To enable learners to take responsibility for their own learning.
A set of enabling skills, including the ability to access information, knowing how to source for information, and knowing what information is useful at a given time to meet the challenges of life and work.

8. LHTL approach promotes that learners should have some control over
WHAT is to be learnt
WHY it is to be learnt
WHEN and WHERE
it is to be learnt
HOW it is to be learnt

9. Why promote LHTL? Encourage learners to become independent learners
Train learners to be responsible for their own learning
Enable learners to reflect and evaluate their own learning

10. ICT Skills
In line with globalisation and the ICT Age, skills relating to ICT are incorporated in the learning outcomes.
Skills include:
-use of multimedia resources
-internet resources
-Utilisation of computer-related activities such as and etc.