UNIT 1.

2 (TTSC) The Teacher As the Curricularist

✓ Test Your Understanding

The role of the teacher in the school is very complex. Teachers do a series of
interrelated actions about curriculum, instruction, assessment, evaluation,
teaching and learning. A classroom teacher is involved with curriculum
continuously all day. But very seldom has a teacher been described as
curricularist. The curricularist teachers do initiates
in order to improve the learning process. They are the teachers who are exciting,
facilitate students learning effectively and always having a plan how to create a
conjucive learning environment. In order to identify if teachers are curricularist, I
conducted a survey with a ten (10) teachers as a respondent in different schools
that will correspond to their self-assessment.

YES/NO

As a school teacher…
1. I master the subject matter that I have to teach. 10 0

2. I implement what I have planned for my teaching. 10 0

3. I monitor and assess if my student are learning. 10 0

4. I modify my activity to suit my learners in my classroom. 10 0

5. I lead in the implementation of a new curriculum in 1 9

my school.

6. I write instructional materials based on the 10 0

recommended school curriculum.

7. I look for other ways of doing to improve teaching and 10 0

learning in my classroom.
Interpretation of the data
Through the survey being conducted, it was being found out that all the teachers
were doing their best how to improve the learning process of the learners. It was
also found out that all the teachers answered that they implement of what they
have planned for their teaching. All respondents teachers were monitored and
assessed it their students are learning and they also modified their activity to suit
their learners in their classrooms. Nine (9) teachers admit that they did not lead
in the implementation of a new curriculum in their school and only one teacher
answered yes, that she lead in the implementation of curriculum in her school. All
the teachers answered that they did write instructional materials based on the
recommended school curriculum. All the teachers in the survey look for other
ways of doing to improve teaching and learning in their school.

Analysis/Learning Insights
As a curricularist a teacher will be knowing, writing, planning, implementing,
innovating, initiating and evaluating the curriculum in the school and classrooms
just like the role models and advocates in curriculum and curriculum
development who have shown the way. In the presentation of data, it was being
observed that mostly of the teachers are curricularist. They mastered their
subject matter, they initiate to writes the curriculum in order to implement what
they have planned. The teachers also trying their best how to get the attention of
the learners by modifying their activities in order to suit the interests of their
learners. The teachers also engage themselves how to improve the curriculum in
their school and write instructional materials based in the recommended school
curriculum. And the most important is the teachers were monitored it their
learners were learning and look for others ways how to improve teaching and
learning in their classroom. Number of years of teaching is also vary in the
expertise of the teacher, they can plan well how to improve the curriculum
because of their experiences. Passion and enthusiasm is the teachers heart of
teaching because if they are not being motivated to teach then it is very hard for
them to look for alternatives how to improve learning process of the learners and
create a conjucive learning environment and memorable and meaningful learning
opportunities learners are the center of the learning process because they come
to school to learn something that is why it is very important for the teachers to
exert more effort in order to met the center of the learning process because they
come to school to learn something that is why it is very important for the
teachers to exert more effort in order to met the goals and objectives. Though
students are the center of the learning process but the teachers also learn from
their learners at the same time because learners are unique, they might have
ideas and knowledge that the teacher might don’t have, and this is the teachers
guide how to implement a curriculum. A teacher may be “challenge” to handle a
class with students so diverse. There may be students having different cultural
background, different language abilities, different attitudes and aptitudes and
behaviors. Some teachers might see this diversity as a difficult predicament,
really a hassle! Yet more effective teacher may see a diverse classroom as an
exciting place to learn not just for her students, but for herself, as well. A
curricularist teacher always challenge herself and always aim for her learners for
the best learning experiences.

VII. End of Module Assessment (EMA)

✓ Test Your Mastery

I am Teacher! Who Am I as a Curricularist?

Instructions: Identify on the blanks provided who am I as a Curricularist based on

the cases presented.

Case 1 : I have a good idea on how to make my learners pay attention to the
lesson. I will use the new idea and find out if it will work. INNOVATOR

Case 2 : DepE d Sent the standards, competencies and guidelines in

teaching the Mother Tongue in Grade 1 in our school. I will study and use it in the
coming school year. IMPLEMENTER

Case 3: There is so much to do in one school day. I seem not able to do all, but I
have to accomplish something for my learners. I have made a daily activity plan
to guide me. PLANNER

Case 4: I need a poem to celebrate the World Teacher’s Day. I composed one to
be used in my class in Literature. WRITER

Case 5: My class is composed of learners from different home background and

culture. I cannot use a “one-size-fits all strategy” in teaching so I can respond to
the diverse background. In my readings, I discovered that there are ways of
teaching. I tried one myself and it worked. INNOVATOR

Case 6: Knowledge is limitless: what I learned in college is not enough. I need to

know more, so I enrolled in the graduate school to advance my learning.
KNOWER

Case 7: at the end of the year, my performance as a teacher is reflected in the

school performance of my students. So I need to provide a monitoring tool a
measure how they are progressing. The result will inform me how. I will address
my learners’ weakness and enhance their strengths. EVALUATOR

Case 8: I am teaching in a very far away barangay with no electricity yet. Many of
the instructional aids for teaching sent to our school are films and video types
which need power. I cannot use them, but the lessons are very important. So I
thought of making an alternative activity. I took my class to the river and
waterfall instead of doing the lesson. INNOVATOR

Case 9: my principal asked me to attend a write shop to make the lesson

exemplars in the teaching of science in grade 7. In the workshop, I used my
experiences as a science teacher for ten years, and my knowledge of the subject
matter. At the end I am proud of. KNOWER

Case 10: in Grade 7 to Grade 10 of the K to 12 Enhanced Curriculum, science as

subject is presented, taught and learned is a spiral manner. This is part of the
Deped implementing guidelines of the curriculum. I am a Biology major, and I
have insufficient knowledge about the other areas of science such as Physics and
Earth Science. Because of this dilemma, I have to request the principal that we
have team teaching. Which role of the curricularist, am I trying to do? INITIATOR

Did you learn more from the cases?

Yes, I learn that as a future educator/curricularist, you are a planner, knower, innovator,
writer, initiator, implementer and evaluator. You study the curriculum as you take your
profession.
IX. Looking Ahead

✓ Synapse Strengtheners

Self-Reflect

Name: Alfred Cedrix D. Bornel Case No. 1

A. My Reflections on Case No. 1

As future teacher, I will be an innovator to make my learners pay more
attention to my lessons. And as Innovator you have to come up to a new
ideas and concepts. Some of the teachers are already exposed in
technologies, and there are some teachers who are still on the use of
traditional technologies. Now a days the students should expose to the
technology like computer because it helps them a lot to pay attention to
the lesson. Teacher need to change the traditional teaching to a modernize
teaching process. By using technology like the PowerPoint
presentation, movies, and many more. This is how a teacher also to change
her strategy in teaching so that students don’t feel bored. Teacher
should be innovator, to do something new in the class, this will help
students to extract ideas and thoughts. As an innovator you should be
prepared and skilled in the teaching process because a good teacher
therefore innovates the curriculum. Innovations can lead to the
improvement of each and everyone of us and that can make nations be
filled with success.
B. What my partner said about my reflections:
Mr. Christian Andrew Hollon said about my reflection in case no. 1 as
innovator, agreed on what I’ve written. He added that creativity and
innovation are trademarks of an excellent teacher
My partner’s name: Christian Andrew Hollon