Explore a Career in Curriculum Development in India
The efficient and smooth functioning of the education sector relies on those who plan, implement and evaluate the teaching-learning systems. The growing focus on accountability and instructional efficacy has highlighted the pivotal role of curriculum developers in ensuring an educationally effective environment.
Curriculum developers, also known as curriculum specialists or instructional coordinators, are educational professionals who work with a wide range of professionals and use their specialized skills to create and rework the learning content, teaching material, training, and so on.
Most curriculum developers will specialize in a certain area of education. While others are involved in conducting teacher training conferences to introduce new learning standards and demonstrate effective teaching methods.
Skill Set Required:
- Creative intelligence and proactive vision
- Design thinking and critical thinking
- Inclusive, receptive. and adaptive approach towards receiving and incorporating feedback
- Ability to collaborate with many individuals at varying levels and build effective working relationships especially with teachers and school administrators
- Strong research and analytical skills using various methods including databases, the internet, and survey results
- Keeping abreast of the newest developments in the impartation of education, policy changes, as well as new instructional methods and designs to ensure that ideas and approaches remain current and relevant
- Professional Development to have the essential training certification as well as maintaining professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops
Range of Responsibilities:
- Conduct extensive research on curricula to decide how and what the students should be taught, and how teachers should be trained
- Undertake tracer studies, impact studies, skills gap analysis, stakeholder conference, and search conferences to ensure & support effective curriculum implementation
- Experiment and evolve responsive models/approaches of curriculum and evaluation system as per contemporary needs of the country (making it learner-centered, flexible, modular, credit-based with multipoint entry & exit features with a multidisciplinary focus)
- Create detailed, engaging curricula and quality resources, liaising with subject experts, selecting appropriate instructional methods, and providing workable timeframes to achieve the goals outlined in the curriculum
- Develop specifications for stimulating course content, lesson plans, and recommending interesting additional resources
- Revise and rewrite course content to ensure accuracy, standardization, and to translate employee training and development needs into engaging educational courses
- Train teachers and other instructional staff in new content, pedagogical strategies, and technology, analyzing student test data by customizing training programs and utilizing interactive technology
- Track and analyze training programs by examining learner’s satisfaction levels, proficiency testing, increased attendance, retention, and employee performance metrics
- Collaborate with stakeholders to revise policies, review educational activities, and contribute to continued adapting of instructional strategies to meet unique student needs, and address student learning or behavioral problems
- Develop and document error-free curriculum and assessment-related resources, monographs, guidelines, manuals, video programmes, quizzes, activities, according to parameters such as ease of instructional technology use and student learning, and knowledge transfer
- Interpret guidelines and review curricula to ensure adherence to national standards, international accord, norms, or criteria as per accreditations requirements
Educational Qualifications Preferred:
Master’s degree in fields related to education:
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT),
Master of Education (M.Ed.),
Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.),
or a Master of Education in Curriculum and Development.
Organizations You Can Work With:
Start-ups such as WhiteHatJr., Unacademy, Elucidation Today
Government Educational bodies such as CBSE or ICSE
Public or private sector schools
NGOs such as Aarunya Foundation
Visiting faculty across institutions as a freelancer
Liberal Arts institutions on contractual basis
Online Courses That Can Be Pursued:
Teaching Techniques: Developing Curriculum from LinkedIn Learning
Curriculum Development for Teachers from Study.com
Certificate in Curriculum Development from Canadian College of Educators
Curriculum Development and Assessment from NITTTR Bhopal
Expected Salary:
The average salary for a Curriculum Developer in India hovers around ₹5,00,000 to ₹5,50,000 per annum.
Nevertheless, the intellectually stimulating work of curriculum developers is shaped by several societal, cultural, economic, and political factors. With their passion for education, they devote their career to enhancing pedagogy, engagement, and empowerment in education.
This article was jointly written by Rishil Jasani and Aswathy B. Surendran from Elucidation Today.
