THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM
NOTE: PERSONAL OBERSERVATIONS & TIPS OF THE LECTURER
CURRICULUM - totality of student experiences
SYLLABUS - is an outline and summary of topics to
be covered in an education or training course
LESSON PLAN - teacher's detailed description of
the course of instruction
CURRICULUM PERSPECTIVES
PROGRESSIVE - totality of student experiences
TRADITIONAL - list of subjects
PROGRESSIVE
JOHN DEWEY
-Believes that education is experiencing
-Reflective thinking is a means to unify curricular
elements that are tested by application
HOLLIS CASWELL & KENN CAMPBELL
- curriculum as all experiences children have under
the guidance of teachers
COLIN MARSH & GEORGE WILLIS
- curriculum as all the experiences in the classroom
which are planned and enacted by the teacher and
also learned by the students
If you are visual learner, even ink colors and positions of the notes can help you recall the
classification of information. For example, if you recall the name being on the left side or being
green, remember that he has a progressivist view of curriculum.
PARTS OF THE LESSON PLAN
When learning about steps, parts, processes,
Objectives
Subject Matter
Learning Activity
Evaluation
Assignment
There are many questions asking for the first,
primary, and most important with objectives as
the answer . An approach you can use is to
remember what the exceptions are instead.
LEVELS OF CURRICULUM
Similar to the first tip, notice that these 4
Societal - created by public & stakeholders
Institutional - derived from societal curricula,
modified by laypersons
Instructional - one that teachers plan and deliver
Experiential - perceived and experienced by
students
Expect that if one of these terms is the correct
answer, then the rest will be potential
distracters. So it is important to know how
they differ from one another. Key words may
be used as a strategy here .
Questions related to the differences in the
definition of Curriculum are mostly related to
curriculum perspectives.
TRADITIONAL
ROBERT HUTCHINS
-views curriculum as permanent studies
-Emphasis on 3R (Reading, Writing, 'rithmetic')
ARTHUR BESTOR
-mission of the school should be intellectual training
on disciplines of grammar, literature and writing
PHILLIP PHENIX
-Curriculum should consist entirely of knowledge
which comes from various disciplines
or models with max of 6 items, you may be
asked to sequence them or at least of it's first
and last. These type of questions are where
acronyms are most useful. Here, it would be
OSLEA.
For steps, parts, processes, or models with 7
or more items, more likely you will only be
asked which comes first or last.
items are under the same topic (Levels of
Curriculum), so most likely they will be the
only distracters to each other. Given these,
you may use a single meaning to different
terms under different topics. Let's try it out on
the Types of Curricula.
TYPES OF CURRICULA IN SCHOOLS NOTE: PERSONAL OBERSERVATIONS & TIPS OF THE LECTURER

Recommended What do you understand about

Written Recommended, Taught, and Learned
Curriculum? Which topics are they much
Taught related to?

Supported
They are actually very related to Levels of
Assessed Curriculum. Recommended is very similar to
Societal, Taught to Instructional, and Learned
Learned
to Experiential. Meaning, you can use the
Hidden/ Implicit same meaning to remember these pairs.

CRITERIA IN THE SELECTION OF

SUBJECT MATTER There are also certain word pairs that are

consistent, some are very obvious anyway:
Self-sufficiency
use - util--
Significance For example in EdTech, which criterion in the
selection of instructional material is
Validity
concerned with how easy it is for the teacher
Usefulness/Utility or students to use the material? Utility.
Teacher nancy is directed to pass an
Learnability undeserving student with a Death threat.
Feasibility Which advise will utilitarian give? Pass the
student.that will be off use to the student,his
Interest parents

PRINCIPLES OF CURRICULUM CONTENT TYPES OF CURRICULARISTS

Knower
Balanced
Writer
Articulation
Planner
Scope
Initiator
Integration
Innovator
Continuity
Implementer
Sequence
Evaluator

TYPES OF CURRICULUM DESIGNS

The interesting part about preparing and
1. Subject-Centered taking the LET is that we are learning about
a. Subject theories of learning, about assessment of
b. Discipline
learning, among other things. And since we
c. Correlation
d. Broad Field are in the process of learning and preparing,
we can use these lessons to better brace
1. Learner-Centered ourselves for what might be the most
a. Child-centered
b. Experience-centered important test of our lives.
c. Humanistic
Passing and topping the board exam was a
3. Problem-Centered
possible available for all of us. You too shall
a. Life-Situations
b. Core Problem make it, a posse ad esse . -Vee Jay