CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

CURRICULUM ESSENTIALS
Timelessness - having no beginning or end : eternal. 2.: not affected by time : ageless. 3. archaic
: premature, untimely.

Type of Curriculum Where

Found Description
1. Recommended
Curriculum (K to 12
Guidelines)
DepEd Website It is where
you can find the
most essential competencies
and may be able to use
all
year-round and indicates its
area per quarter.
2. Written Curriculum
(Teachers lesson plan)
School School personnel
hires a
specialist-a contract of
service-to develop a plan
to
meet their set
goals/objectives.
3. Taught Curriculum
(Teaching learning
process)
Classroom It is the lecture
gave by the
teacher, initiating group
activities. In short, the teacher
demonstrates guidance to the
learners.
4. Supported Curriculum
(Subject textbook)
School These are the
available
resources in the school. It can
be humans (teachers), books
such as textbooks,
workbooks, teacher’s guide
and etc. and it includes
laboratory equipment.
5. Assessed Curriculum
(Assessment process)
School It is the assessment
of the
learners whether formative or
summative to determine their
level of learnings.
6. Learned Curriculum
(Achieved Learning
Outcomes)
School These are the skills
or
expertise you may be able to
see to the learners thru
activities such as trainings,
seminars, and etc.
7. Hidden Curriculum
(Media)
School This is the learnings
taught by
the teacher or it may not be
taught from the school.
Type of Curriculum Where
Found Description
1. Recommended
Curriculum (K to 12
Guidelines)
DepEd Website It is where
you can find the
most essential competencies
and may be able to use
all
year-round and indicates its
area per quarter.
2. Written Curriculum
(Teachers lesson plan)
School School personnel
hires a
specialist-a contract of
service-to develop a plan
to
meet their set
goals/objectives.
3. Taught Curriculum
(Teaching learning
process)
Classroom It is the lecture
gave by the
teacher, initiating group
activities. In short, the teacher
demonstrates guidance to the
learners.
4. Supported Curriculum
(Subject textbook)
School These are the
available
resources in the school. It can
be humans (teachers), books
such as textbooks,
workbooks, teacher’s guide
and etc. and it includes
laboratory equipment.
5. Assessed Curriculum
(Assessment process)
School It is the assessment
of the
learners whether formative or
summative to determine their
level of learnings.
6. Learned Curriculum
(Achieved Learning
Outcomes)
School These are the skills
or
expertise you may be able to
see to the learners thru
activities such as trainings,
seminars, and etc.
7. Hidden Curriculum
(Media)
School This is the learnings
taught by
the teacher or it may not be
taught from the school.

Type of Curriculum Where Found Description

Recommended
DepEd Website This type of
Ex. In the Philippines,
the curriculum being

Curriculum implemented by the

Department of

(K to 12
Education (DepEd) or
the Commission on
Higher Education

Guidelines) (CHED) is an example

of a recommended
curriculum.
Recommended
Curriculum
(K to 12
Guidelines)
Recommended Curriculum (K -12 Guidelines)

Written Curriculum (Teacher’s lesson plan) School Ex. The kindergarten

curriculum standards,
CHED Memorandum
order no. 20, series of
2013(for General
Education), TESDA
modules and
competencies, course
of study, syllabi,
modules, books,
instructional guides
among others; lesson
plan; and the K-12 for
Philippine Basic
Education.

Taught Curriculum (Teaching learning process) Classroom Ex. Whatever is being

taught or an activity
being done in the
classroom is a taught
curriculum.

Supported Curriculum (Subject textbook) School Ex. Textbooks, field

trips, software and
technology. Print
materials like books,
charts, posters,
worksheets, or non-
print materials like
PowerPoint
presentation.
 Outside the classroom
like playground,
science laboratory,
audio visual rooms,
zoo, museums.

Assessed Curriculum (Assessment process) School Ex. Quizzes, midterm

and final exams,
presentations,

Learned Curriculum (Achieved learning School Ex. From a non-reader

outcomes) to a reader, not
knowing to knowing,
being disobedient to
obedient.

Hidden Curriculum (Media) School Ex. Cultural practices,

school environment,
media, societal
changes.

New-Fist introduced a curriculum to seek ways to improve children’s

style of life. His goal was to provide better food, security and shelter by
introducing fish- grabbing, horse clubbing.

 In today's world, "fish-grabbing, horse-clubbing, and tiger-scaring" can be compared to the
classic "reading, writing, and arithmetic." While they are important skills, students must be
aware of how to apply these skills to future endeavors. For example, if a student were in my
situation about Obama's health care plan, it is important that we (teachers) have taught them
to be attentive listeners, effective questioners, evaluative of others' opinions for bias, as well as
intelligent internet users. These skills will not only help them to find out about Obama's plan,
but will help them to find out about other things as well. Memorizing Obama's plan can only be
used in an isolated setting. Teaching them how to get the information and what to do with it
can serve a larger purpose in the present and the future.

For that reason, curriculum change should reflect the common goals of society. Our society, like
that in the "Sabertooth Curriculum," is constantly changing, so education should too. However,
how "change" is viewed and defined should be taken into account very carefully in order to be
successful. Often, people think that change should be immediate, a "quick fix," and be
completely different or opposite from what took place before. This is not necessarily true.
Change, in schools especially, should be gradual, carefully monitored for effectiveness, and may
slowly yield results. It also may take pieces of the old and combine it with the new.

Curriculum should be a blend of skills and content knowledge. Those in the "Sabertooth Curriculum"
admitted that the old skills they needed to survive would always be at the root of the new things they
taught. Curriculum change should do the same. It should teach content knowledge, like for example, the
Holocaust. However, to be truly effective, to prepare students to be functional members of society,
curriculum must involve linking the past (the Holocaust) to the present (Darfur) and the future
(identifying attitudes that lead to genocide and how to prevent it). By arming students with content
knowledge only, schools will produce adults who can spit out facts and figures- useful, if life were a
game show. On the other hand, life is much more than just a question and answer competition. In order
to prepare students for life, schools must teach students the skills to take the content knowledge and
apply it to become useful citizens of the world.

Activity 1- Think Pair Share

1. Get a partner (A and B)

2. Discuss the Sabre-tooth curriculum and answer the following.

a. Does the Sabre-tooth curriculum still exist at present? Give
examples of your evidence.
Sabre-tooth curriculum still exist in today’s world, fish-
grabbing, horse-clubbing and tiger-scaring define as classic
learning in reading, writing and knowing arithmetic. While
they are important skills, students must be aware of how to
apply these skills to future endeavors. It is important that we
learn a lot in school, but sometimes through life experiences
and challenges we learn a lot more, more than what we learn
from school. Practical thinking skills is applied and school has
nothing to do with it.
 In Sabre-tooth curriculum taught fish grabbing not just to
grab the fish but to develop a generalized agility which can
never be developed by mere training. In today’s world,
learners train in their field of specialization for them to gain
the knowledge and skills they need but can never be proven
until actual circumstances came along.

b. Describe the kind of curriculum that exists as described in the

article.
The curriculum has to be implemented or taught. There is one
doer at the same time thinker who teaches his comrades to
learn how to do fish-grabbing, horse-clubbing and tiger-
scaring. Supported curriculum was also used. These are the
places where authentic learning through direct experiences
occurs. Learned curriculum is also a part of it for the reason
that a lot of people learned from what is being taught.

c. What does the author mean, when he said “A curriculum

should be timeless?” Explain.

A curriculum should be timeless, it only means that

curriculum has no end, no limit, ageless and no ending facts.
It is not affected by time, and it will last forever.

d. What is the difference between education and training?

Education is what we get from school, it cannot be taken away

from those who have it. It is acquiring particular knowledge
 and skills, as for a profession. Aside from the good values we
learn from home, we also learn values and virtue in school,
not just academic ideals.
Training is a hands-on experience on the different task that we
want to achieve or learn. It is where we can practice our skills
in the particular field that we are trying to acquire. It helps us
boost our knowledge in particular subject.
The difference between education and training is that
education provides theoretical knowledge while training
provides practical skills.

SELF REFLECT

1. Is it necessary for teachers to learn about school curriculum?

Why? Write your answer on the space provided below.

A teacher must know and learn about school curriculum because

curriculum is the heart of teaching profession. Classrooms will
be empty with no curriculum, so as teachers will have nothing to
do without it. Curriculum will serve as guide to all teachers in
their teaching as well as in learning process.