Abayabay, Waren S.

MSciEd – General Science

1. Reflection Essay

“The Saber-Tooth Curriculum”

By : J. Abner Peddiwell

Provide better food, shelter, clothing, and having a security of living. These

primary needs are addressed by a great man of Chellean times whose full name was

New-Fist-Hammer-Maker. In this story, New Fist emphasize the beauty of systematic

education. He made a curriculum provided with a clear mission, vision, goal, and

objective in order for his tribe to survived for any circumstances that probably destroy

their life. They’re being taught by different skills for survival which is the objective of the

three core subjects such as Fish-Grabbing, Horse-Clubbing, and Tiger-Scaring. Based

on the story, I see New Fist as an innovator and I started asking myself right now as a

future teacher, Am I ready to become New Fist? Am I fully equipped to apply the Saber-

Tooth Curriculum?

The story is not only concern on what should I applied in a school setting, but

rather made me internalized the process on how my students should appreciate their

learnings. That my students should understand that they need to live heartedly each

thing they are learning every day. And as an effective teacher, I should have a

timelessness curriculum same with New Fist in order for me to addressed the cultural

diversity in every learning process.

2. Define the following:

A. Curriculum is a written content that provides sequence of steps in teaching

and learning specific courses.

B. Curriculum Development is a systematic process that creates improvement

in every educational system.

C. Curriculum Change is a process of shifting the content of curriculum from its’

old feature to a new feature.

D. Curriculum Innovation is adapting changes of the environment by upgrading

the curriculum features in order to fit-in. Considering the boom of different

technologies.

E. Curriculum Reforms is a process of changing the content, but unlike

curriculum innovation, in this process it has something wrong with the content

that might already considered as ineffective for the learners. However, its

primary reason is also to improve the content of the curriculum.

F. Curriculum Materials are educational materials used by the teacher to serve

as an instrument to transmit the curriculum vision, mission, goal, and

objective into real life through learning process.

G. Curriculum Design refers to its features, structures, and how it will deliberate

to a student in order to attain its’ vision, mission, goal, and objective.