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Teaching Reform and Curriculum Innovation in China Exercise for this lecture Tell the difference between curriculum and syllabus. The five goals specified in the new curriculum are ____ ____ _____ ____ ____. Why do we need to change the curriculum? Social background School education in China is now undergoing rapid changes the pressing requirements of the improvement by the Program on Quality Education Curriculum syllabus Curriculum refers to “all the factors which contribute to the teaching and learning situation” (Johnson, 1996), including “not only what pupil learn, but how they learn it, and how teachers help them learn, using what supporting materials styles and methods of assessment, and in what kind of facilities” while syllabus prescribes the content to be covered by a given course, forming only a small part of school program (Rodgers, 1996) Dubin and Alshtain (Gong Li, 2004) make the point even clearer by suggesting that curriculum is defined as being in the description of general goals and more reflective of national and political trends, while the syllabus is defined as more detailed and operational in stating teaching and learning elements and reflective of the curriculum through the series of planed steps and more narrowly defined objectives. Stern (1999) sums up curriculum as a question about what can and should be taught to whom, when and how. curriculum and syllabus are often taken as synonymous. the term syllabus similar in sense to that of curriculum since the syllabi are usually “official” or national published documents, issued by the Ministry of Education, with identification of the general goals and detailed objectives, selection of content and teaching methodology, and descriptions of the outcome and assessment to evaluate the outcome of teaching and learning. the subject of questioning, experimenting and reviewing. The curricula for secondary schools have been revised eight times. (1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2000,