FELIX O ALFELOR SR.

FOUNDATION COLLEGE
Sipocot, Camarines Sur

Prod Ed 10. Curriculum Development

Prelim Examination

Name: Roxanne V Belmonte Course Methods of Teaching Score_______

1. Read the statement carefully. Select the letter of the correct answer and write it in your
test booklet.

1. View curriculum as a permanent study which emphasized 3Rs in Basic Education.

a. Joseph Schwab b. Rubert Hutchin c. George Willis
Ans: b

2. Describe the 7 types of curriculum operating in school.

a. Jerome Bruner b.Allan Glatthorn c. Ivan Pavlou
Ans: b

3. Assert that curriculum should consist entirely of knowledge which comes from various
disciplines.
a. Philip Phenix b. Joseph Schwab c. Arthur Bestor
Ans: a

4. Believes that reflective thinking is a means that unifies curricular elements that are tested
by application.
a. Holin Caswell b. Kenn Campbell c. John Dewey
Ans: c

5. The school curricula that come from the National agency in the form of policies, standard
and guidelines.
a. Written curriculum b. Supported Curriculum c. Recommended Curriculum
Ans: c

6. A curricula which are made by curriculum expert with the participation of the teachers. They
come in the form of course study, books or instructional guides.
a. Learned Curriculum b. Taught Curriculum c. Written Curriculum
Ans: c

7. Depends largely on the teaching styles of the teacher and the learning style of the learners.
a. Taught curriculum b. Assessed Curriculum c. Learned Curriculum
Ans: a
11. Identify on the blanks the role of the teacher as Curricularist based on the cases presented.

8. 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 works. Innovates the curriculum

9. Case 2. DepEd 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.
Initiates the curriculum

10. 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.
plans the curriculum

11. Case 4. I need a poem to celebrate the World Teachers’ Day. I compose one to be used in
my class in Literature. Writes the curriculum

12. Case 5. 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.
Knows the curriculum

13. Case 6. My class is composed of learners from different home background and culture. I
cannot use a “one-size fits all strategies.” In teaching so I can respond to the diverse
background. In my reading, I discovered that there are ways of teaching, I tried one myself
and it worked. Innovates the curriculum

14. Case 7 At the end of the year, my performance as a teacher is reflected in the school
performance of my students. So I have to provide a monitoring tool to measure how they
are progressing. The result will inform me how I will address my learners, weakness and
enhance their strengths. evaluates the curriculum

15. Case 8. I am teaching in a faraway barangay with no electricity yet. Many of the instructional
materials for teaching sent to our school are films and video tapes 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. Implements
the curriculum

11. Essay (5 pts/item)

1. Explain the statement. “A Curriculum should be timeless”.

It means that our education system should fit with the needs of the time and serve a purpose,
curriculum should also responds to changes that came from current social necessities and
educational improvements. And, these curricular decisions should be made by our society to fit our
needs, with the help of teachers, and other person involve in curriculum development.
2. Discuss the significance of curriculum and curriculum development in the teacher’s classroom.
A teacher by way of curriculum support students’ personal development by enhancing their self-
respect, confidence, motivation and aspiration, it also contributes to the thinking skills and creativity
of the students. Teachers must plan, create and implement the curriculum in their classroom for
the purpose of effective learning practices in the classroom. It also allow a teacher to be flexible to
add an actual activities to improve the knowledge and skill of the students.

3. Differentiate curriculum from the traditional point of view and progressive point of view.
A traditional curriculum is a curriculum stay at traditional method of teaching. The techniques of
teaching are not changing. It concentrated a learning of the students by old and commonly
strategies of teaching. A progressive curriculum is a curriculum improving in teaching process. It
improves the teachers to have new strategies to develop student learning process. In progressive
curriculum, teachers provides more hands-on research, sudden program detours, and a chance to
learn things in the field.

4. Describe the role of a teachers as a curricularist in the classroom.

The teacher as a learner starts with knowing about the curriculum, a teacher should know
and mastered the content to be discuss. A classroom teacher takes record of knowledge
concepts, instructional guides, and reference materials in paper or electronic media. It is
the role of the teacher to make plan of the curriculum. The teacher takes into consideration
several factors in planning a curriculum. Implementation of a new curriculum requires the
open mindedness of the teacher, and the full belief that the curriculum will enhance
learning. Creativity and innovation are assurances of an excellent teacher. Teaching,
guiding and facilitating skills of the teacher is expected to be his/her quality. A teacher must
also determine if the desired learning outcomes have been achieved by the students by
providing an evaluation.

5. Describe the different approaches to school curriculum.

There are three ways of approaching a curriculum, curriculum as a content or body of knowledge,
curriculum as a process and curriculum as a product. All curriculum has a content regardless of their
design or models, the focus must be in knowledge to be transmitted to the students using the
appropriate teaching methods. Curriculum can also be a process that happens in the classroom, it
is an active interacting and links with the practical form of reasoning by the students. Curriculum,
as a product, is set of defining documents that describe what is the learning process of the student,
it describe the related areas to be experienced within the lesson, and the intended results or
outcomes of performed activities.
6. Reflect on how the three approaches interrelate with each other
Content is related to other subject fields or discipline for complementation and integration. Content
is important in the transfer of learning in other disciplines. In the process, learning and teaching
styles should be considered. Every method or process should result to learning outcomes. Both
teaching and learning are the two important processes in the implementation of the curriculum.
Curriculum product is expressed in form of outcomes which are referred to as the achieved learning
outcomes. All of these are result of planning, content and processes in the curriculum
7. Why do we need to consider the maturity level and abilities of the learner in selecting the
content in the curriculum,
Maturity plays a role in a person's ability to accept responsibility for his or her own thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors. It affects their ability to keep track of his or her thinking and, in this case,
teacher must be aware to control the various emotions they may experience in a learning situation.
Maturity governs personal responsibility, shared communication, openness to new ideas, and ability
to find solutions to problems. Teachers must consider to know that it is directly relatable to
emotional control and reasoning of every students.