Name: Dexter L.

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Activity No. 1: Reflection on Chapter 1

Curriculum provides teachers, students, administrators, and community stakeholders

with a measurable plan and structure for delivering a quality education. Thus, the curriculum
identifies the learning outcomes, standards, and core competencies that students must
demonstrate before advancing to the next level. Likewise, curriculum is the content itself while
curriculum development is the process of creating a lesson that helps students learn that
content. Curriculum planning develops well coordinated, quality teaching, learning and
assessment programmes which build students' knowledge, skills, and behaviors in the
disciplines, as well their interdisciplinary and or physical, personal, and social capacities.
Curriculum is more than just an educational requirement. Curriculum is conceptualized
so the educational system would move forward. Curriculum is life itself. We are made to
function. We are made to work. Every day that we are moving forward, we experience things
along the way. When we experience things, we learn - how we should speak, how we should
act, and how we should respond to certain stimuli. Experiences mold us into learning more
about life. These experiences dictated by what we learned from our personal encounters enable
us to survive. Curriculum, on the other hand, undergoes several encounters. With such
encounters, curriculum developers choose to move forward, choose to learn new things, and
choose to survive. In the school setting, the curriculum serves as the agent satisfying the
important educational needs of its clients - students - through experience. Subjects are just the
facade of a bigger picture. For example, in the English subjects, literature is taught in the
classroom but literature empowers values appreciation of the different cultures. Math operations
are taught in the classrooms but behind it is equipping students the means to survive in this
world. Therefore, the curriculum is the training module for a much bigger life after school.
Curriculum is very essential to achieve what needs to be achieved. Through an excellent
curriculum, it is expected to be able to produce quality and competent graduates. However, to
achieve these goals, intensive and careful curriculum planning is necessary in order to develop
a competency or outcome based curriculum. Curriculum planning is that the process is both
creative and practical. For me, it is always important to be involved in designing a course
that is capable of transferring into practice. By this, the course planning should not be a ‘pie
in the sky’ idea, that will never work in reality. The vital factors to keep in mind are what will
be the benefits to those who go on to successfully complete the course, and what the
impact will be for the wider community and society. Curriculum planning is hard work for
every individual involved. If it is a collaborative venture, there are lots of necessary debates
and discussions about what should be in the course/curriculum and why. This takes time,
and the ability to negotiate and compromise on the final draft of the course. Finally, in order
to develop engaging lessons, curriculum development should be put into the right perspective.