COMPETENCE-BASED CURRICULUM

THROUGH LIFE SKILL ORIENTED

&
STRENGTHENING METHODOLOGIES

Sartiah Yusran

Curriculum and Material Development

Program Study Bahasa Inggerias
FKIP Unhalu, Nov 2007

The objectives of Lessons

To define and understand what competency and
life skill mean;
Develop participants awareness of some of the
theories that underpins learning activities that
promote the development of desired
competencies in students;
Assist participants to develop and to review
curriculum that poster the development of
competent students; especially English
Curriculum.

Background & Problems

The Learning Revolution is the answer of the
Information Revolution which is called Brightness
network Era.
Human development Index : Indonesia is in the 26th
from 27 countries.
Competenced-based Curriculum is one of the
priorities in the National Development Program and
will be implemented in formal education curriculum
2004 all over Indonesia (National Policy)
Sources :
Kurrikulum Berbasis Kompetensi, 2002
Human Development Index, 2000
The Learning Revolution, 1999

Education Paradigm

Learning for life

&
school to work
Learning to know
Learning to do
Learning to be
Learning to live together

Source: International Conference of Education, 2000

CONTEXT
Competency means knowledge, skills and value which can be
reflected in daily activities.
The capacity to perform specific activities will always require
some combination of knowledge, skills, dispositions and values
which when they examined identify key competencies.
The capacity of person to be successful in the world, to
undertake activities competently requires the person to bring
together a range of attributes in the particular context which
they are located.
Source: Curriculum Learning and Strengthening Methodologies, 2002.
Competenced-based Curriculum Development Guidelines, 2002

Remember!!!
It is dangerous to think of competencies as
discrete stand alone behaviours. The more
complex the task that have to be performed, the
more combinations of key competencies are
required to enable successful performance.
Thinking and doing any activities consistently
and continuously by combining knowledge,
skills, disposition and values will make someone
competent.

Check Your Assumptions

Do you believe that the content knowledge
you are currently giving is the most important
information to produce a competent
students?
Do you believe that this knowledge is the
basis for an ability (in students) to transfer
knowledge and skills over many context in
daily life.
Are you sure that your curriculum have been
approached based-on life skill oriented rather
than subject matter oriented.

Competence-based Approaches
Behaviourist or
Specific Task Approach

Attribute or Generic Skill

Approach

Integrated or Task-attribute
Approach

Large number of specific

competencies-the list lengthens
with the complexity of the work

Small number of generic

competencies

Manageable number of
competencies

Uniformity
(one right way)

Small number of generic

competencies

Manageable number of key

competencies

Checklist for ticking invalid

assessment

Traditional assessment has its

limitations.

Competence demonstrated over

time through the accumulated
evidence submitted by students
Assessment needs careful
planning

Central control of curriculum

Provider autonomy in curriculum

Profession/provider joint control

of curriculum

Minimum competence lower

common denominator
discourages excellence
Deskilling

Encourage excellence that is

remote from professional
practice

Richness of quality professional

performance is captured

Basic Concept of life skill

Life skill is the ability of someone who has many
skills which can be adapted and applied positively
in different context.
This person can manage to cope with demands
and challenges and to find out the solution of
his/her problems in his/her daily life actively and
effectively.

Source : Life Skill Education, 2002

The Learning Revolution, 1999

The Objectives of life skill

General Objectives;
To empower teachers and other
stakeholders in order to enable students to
develop their skills in real life situation.
To function school/institution as its
principle that school/institution is a place
where students learn for preparing their
future role as well as future life.

Specific Objectives;
It is expected that teachers have ability to
integrate different topics/subjects in order to
develop life skill
Students have knowledge and skills which can
be applied in the real life situation
Schools/institutions have opportunities to
develop teaching and learning program in flexible
way based on the competence-based curriculum
To optimize the use of available resources in
community based on schools/institutions
management protocol.

Existing program

Holistic program

Cognitive domain
information

Cognitive domain
information

Affective domain

Behavioral domain
???

???

Affective domain
feelings
values
attitudes
Behavioral domain
communication,
decision-making
other personal skills

Life skill
Personal skill

Social skill

Academic skill

Vocational skill

Specific Life Skill

General Life Skill

Competency

Real life
/daily life

Life skill

Subject/lesson