CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

(Prof.Ed 13)
Name: Nicole B. Pabello
Instructor: Lolita C. Padriquez, Asst. Prof. IV

Activity 1. Look at the words inside the box. Read each one of them. Which one describes the
teacher as a curricularist? Encircle the box.

Exciting Facilitating /Knowing Planning Frustrating

Initiating Growing Evaluating /Innovating

Broadening Building Rewarding Believing

Recommending Showing Copying

Activity 2.
I am a Teacher! Who I am 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 learners pay attention to the lesson. I will use the
new idea and find out if it will work. IMPLEMENTOR
Case 2: DepEd sent the standard, 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. INITIATOR
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 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 for
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 to measure how
they are progressing. The result will inform me how I will address my learners’
weakness and enhanced their strengths. EVALUATOR
Case 8: I am teaching in a very faraway barangay with no electricity yet. Many of the
instructional aids for teaching sent to our school are films and video tapes which need

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 power. I cannot use them, but some lessons are 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: Supposing you are a teacher and your principal asked you to attend a write shop to
make the lesson exemplars in the teaching of science in grade 7. In the workshop,
you used your experiences as a science teacher for ten years, and your
knowledge of the subject matter. At the end of three days, you were able to produce
lesson exemplars which you are proud of. WRITER
Case 10: In grade 7 to grade 10 of the K to 12 Enhanced Curriculum, science as a subject is
presented, taught and learned in a spiral; manner. This is part of the DepEd
implementing guidelines of the curriculum. I am 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? IMPLEMENTOR
ASSESSMENT
1. Is it necessary for teachers to learn about school curriculum? Why?
Yes. It is necessary to learn about school curriculum in order to deliver the contents of every
lesson efficiently. This also serves as a tool in order to keep everything in the entire school
effective and organized. With the implementation of the school curriculum, it could give
opportunities to the teachers to asses learners if they are able to attain specific objectives
through applying some strategic evaluation. And since the curriculum is dynamic, it can improve
the performance of the teachers and students in a sustainable manner.
2. Prove that in a teacher’s classroom more than one curricula exist. Cite examples.
I can say that in a teacher’s classroom, more than one curricula exist because all of the
curriculum presented are applicable in every class discussion. One curricula is distinct from the
other, but each plays a crucial role. Also, these curricula are interconnected with each other.
For example, the recommended curriculum comes from different government agencies namely,
DepEd, CHED, and TESDA and each agency has its own recommended memoranda or
policies, standards and guidelines in which the activities in the school will be based in the form
of written documents (in the form of course of study, syllabi, modules, books, and etc.) through
the implementation of the written curriculum. These written instructional documents need to be
taught with the aide of instructional materials which makes use of the supported curriculum. In
order to know if the learners have learned, they will be assessed with different strategic points.
However, there is also a hidden/implicit curriculum in which a learner is greatly affected by the
environment he/she is in and this kind of learner somewhat needs special attention.

Activity 3.

Label the description/definition on the left, either Traditional (T), or Progressive

(P)

No. Description (T) (P)

1 Teachers are required to teach the book from cover to cover.
2 If the learners can memorize the content, the curriculum is
best.
3 Children are given opportunity to play outdoors.
4 Parents send children to a military type of school with rigid
discipline.
5 Teachers are reluctant to teach beyond the written
curriculum.
6 Prerequisites to promotion for the next grade are skills in
reading, writing and arithmetic only.
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 7 Teachers provide varied experiences for the children.
8 Learning can only be achieved in schools.
9 It is the systematic arrangement of contents in the course
syllabus.
10 Co-curricular activities are planned for all to participate.

ASSESSMENT
Answer the following questions:
1. Identify which among the foundations of curriculum, has influenced what you have learned in
school as a college student?

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2. Once you become a teacher, how will the thinking of Abraham Maslow influence your
teaching practices in the future? Cite instances.
In my perspective, the thinking of Abraham Maslow can influence my teaching practices in
the future by being an educator that does not only teaches but is also able to cater the needs
of her students. We have individual differences and as a teacher, I must be sensitive enough
in handling my students. There are learners that are not able to achieve Maslow’s Hierarchy
of Needs, so as an educator, it is my duty as a second parent to be able to connect to my
students who need special attention. As a second home, a school should be a friendly
environment where a learner can be safe and is able to express himself/herself and where
the learner could get out of his/her comfort zone and grow as an individual. Moreover, I
should be an educator who is encouraging because there are students who are at the peak
of giving up on their studies because of the lack of child support. That support that a child
need should also be felt from the teacher so that the child will be able to feel comfortable with
his/her teacher. Additionally, I should be an educator who will bring out the best of my
students in order for them to be able to see themselves as successful individuals .