Creating a Meaningful Music Curriculum for Students With Disabilities

When teaching students with disabilities, it is important for music teachers to consider the functionality of the skills taught and learned beyond the music classroom. In special education, a curriculum centered on the life-long skills important for students to be independent in their communities is called a “functional curriculum.” Before considering how to adapt a traditional curriculum for students with disabilities, music teachers can used the ideas based in functional curriculum to develop a functional music curriculum, ensuring that both students with and without disabilities are learning the skills to engage in life-long music experiences.

Analisis Perbedaan Pada Kurikulum KTSP Dan Kurikulum 2013 Terhadap Penyesuaian Alokasi Waktu Perminggu Untuk SDLB

Abstrak: Konsep kurikulum berkembang sejalan dengan perkembangan teori dan praktik pendidikan serta bervariasi sesuai dengan aliran atau teori pendidikan yang dianutnya. Menurut pandangan lama, sejak zaman Yunanni Kuno, kurikulum merupakan kumpulan mata pelajaran-mata pelajaran yang harus disampaikan guru atau dipelajari siswa. Pendidikan dalam sejarah peradaban anak manusia adalah salah satu komponen kehidupan yang paling urgent. Semenjak manusia berinteraksi dengan aktifitas pendidikan ini semenjak itulah manusia telah berhasil merealisasikan berbagai perkembangan dan kemajuan dalam segala lingkup kehidupan mereka. Bahkan pendidikan adalah suatu yang alami dalam perkembangan peradaban manusia. Kurikulum sering dibedakan antara kurikulum sebagai rencana (curriculum plan) dengan kurikulum yang fungsional (functioning curriculum). Kurikulum bukan hanya merupakan rencana tertulis bagi pengajaran, melainkan sesuatu yang fungsional yang beroperasi dalam kelas, yang memberi pedoman dan mengatur lingkungan dan kegiatan yang berlangsung di dalam kelas.Kata Kunci: konsep kurikulum.Abstract: The concept of curriculum develops in line with the development of educational theory and practice and varies according to the flow or theory of education it embraces. According to the old view, since the time of the Ancient Yunanni, the curriculum is a collection of subjects to be submitted by teachers or studied by students. Education in the history of civilization of the human child is one of the most urgent components of life. Since humans have interacted with these educational activities ever since, humans have succeeded in realizing various developments and progress in all spheres of their lives. Even education is a natural in the development of human civilization. The curriculum is often distinguished between the curriculum as a plan (curriculum plan) with a functional curriculum. The curriculum is not just a written plan for teaching, but something functional that operates in the classroom, which guides and regulates the environment and activities that take place in the classroom.

MORAL VALUES AND CURRICULUM (External-Subjective and Internal-Objective in Islamic Education)

In functional, curriculum can not be separated from the two sides that is the science (thus the importance of curriculum renewal, so a curriculum designed to be changed and enhanced to absorb the latest scientific developments) and the moral and ethical values (religion). Although they are different but can not be separated. Even education as a pedagogical effort, it further strengthens the relationship between science (knowledge) and the moral and ethical values. Curriculum as a giver of a clear and definite direction in learning science should be able to realize entanglement with moral and ethical values in teaching Islamic education, in particular. Although it must be recognized that the function of praxis, the curriculum on the moral and ethical values found a difference of opinion, but the urgency of the meaning of moral and ethical values are in the curriculum , either explicitly (external) or implicit (internal), definite or conditional, there was an agreement among educators experts.

Exploring the Enactment of Functional Curriculum in Self-Contained Cross-Categorical Programs: A Case Study

Little research has been devoted to studying functional curriculum in secondary special education programs, self-contained cross-categorical programs, or curriculum enactment in special education, which warrants study of the culmination of these issues. This article presents a case study that attempts to answer, “What is the nature of the enactment of functional curriculum in rural self-contained cross-categorical programs?” The study occurred in two rural secondary self-contained cross-categorical programs with two teachers, four paraprofessionals, and 15 students. The findings suggest that the curriculum was enacted in the moment, was relative, and created tensions between special education and general education. The findings also suggest that the enactment had to be very encompassing and that it developed a community within each programs.