CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Experiential activities are now the mandatory educational activity conducted in parallel with the teaching activities by requested of the New General Education Curriculum, through which students get more experiential opportunities to apply acquired knowledge, thereby developing their competencies. However, this requirement is quite new for teachers in general and primary teachers in particular. This article aims to provide a conceptual design for experiential activities developing competencies of primary school students as the mandatory educational activity in the New General Education Curriculum. There mentioned experiential activity and competence development concepts, then proposed objectives and contents, organization and evaluation measures of experiential activities. Then a conceptual design for such activities is detailed and illustrated by an example.