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.
•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.