RSA is also known for its curriculum innovations; including Opening Minds and the Area Based Curriculum.
Choose between a theme-based and an academically- based curriculum.
This aims to make the history of the US presidency interesting and engaging for children, with video, music, plenty of talking-heads and content based on the US educational curriculum.
Content based language learning.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Medicine replaced its old content-based curriculum with an innovative new 6-year undergraduate entry outcomes-based integrated program in 2004.
To improve the transition from medical school to internship, UNSW developed a PRINT course that was first implemented in 2007 for students who had learned within a traditional content-based curriculum, and continued for subsequent student cohorts who had enrolled in a new outcomes-based program, that places importance on development of generic as well as clinical capabilities [ 6, 24].
Overall, we consider the results to be a provisional endorsement of the new outcomes-based curriculum at UNSW with evidence that graduates report significantly better self-perceived capability across a range of clinical tasks most relevant to the 'patient assessment and management' capability, than graduates of the old content-based curriculum who completed their study two years earlier.
The shift from a discipline or content-based curriculum to an outcomes-based program has resulted in significantly higher perceptions of clinical competence in our first graduating cohort, particularly in the more generic capability areas of teamwork, reflective practice, and clinical communication.
Prior to 2007 UNSW medical graduates who had been enrolled in a relatively traditional content-based curriculum (referred to as the 'old' UNSW program), were prepared for internship by early exposure to clinical environments, meaningful contact with patients and an accumulation of hands-on clinical experiences integrated throughout the curriculum.
Most of the content was based on a popular coping skills curriculum that is widely used with high school students and that focuses on skills for coping with social adversity and on thinking positively (Frydenberg, 2010).
Data has been subjected to the content analysis, based on the document analysis of the course curriculum.
