MODULE FIELD STUDY 4

Episode 10: Implementing the Curriculum: The Teacher as Curriculum

Implementer and Manager

• Differentiate the implementer and manager

• Summarize the implementing the curriculum
• Discuss the implementing curriculum

Implementing the Curriculum: The teacher as Curriculum Implementer and

Manager

• The teaching and learning process, the other side of the coin is the teacher.
•Planning and writing the curriculum are the primary roles of the teacher.
• A teacher is a curriculum maker. He/she writes curriculum daily through a lesson
plan, unit plan or yearly plan. •The teachers prepare activities for the students to
do.

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 • The teacher addresses the goals, needs, interests, of the learners by creating
experiences from where the students can learn. •The teacher designs, enriches
and modifies the curriculum to suit the learner’s characteristics.
• As a curriculum developer, teachers are part of textbooks committees, faculty
selection boards, school evaluation committee or textbook writers themselves.

Views of the students about the teacher as a curriculum maker and implementer.

• “Teachers are the most crucial persons in the implementation of a curriculum.”

• “Teachers shape the school curriculum by sharing the experiences that they have
and the resources they are capable of giving or imparting to the learners.”
• Therefore, no technology can ever replace a teacher; it will only support the
multifaceted role of the teacher. Thus, the complexity of teaching requires
tremendous maturity, decision making in the implementation of any curricular plan
as in the choice of materials, methods or strategy of teaching and modes of
evaluation.

Curriculum Managers and Administrators

• In school organization, there is always a curriculum manager or school

administrator. In fact, for school principals, one of their functions is being a
curriculum manager.
• “The school administrators play an important role in shaping the school curriculum
because they are the people who are responsible in the formulation of the schools’
vision, philosophy, mission and objectives. They provide necessary leadership in
evaluating teaching personnel and school program. Keeping records of curriculum
and reporting learning outcomes are also the managers’ responsibilities.”
• “The school administrators have the responsibility of running the entire school
effectively. They have to oversee the smooth transition of the child from one grade
level to another and they should see to it that the curriculum is implemented
vertically or horizontally with very minimal overlaps. Instead there should be
continuity, relevance, balance, so that overall curriculum will produce a well-
rounded person.”
• Indeed, the role of the administrators can never be ignored. The principle of
command responsibility and institutional leadership rests on the shoulder of the
school administrators.

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