The Teacher as a Curricularist Survey Tool

Name of Teacher: ___________________________________________________

School: _________________________ Grade Level Assignment____________
No of Years Teaching: _____________ Degree Graduated: ________________

Circle YES or NO that will correspond to your self-assessment.

Then rank the items which you answered YES. Which activity do you do most of the
time? What activity do you do least of the time?

As a school teacher, Answer

& Rank
1. I master the subject matter that I have to teach. Yes No
2. I implement what I have planned for my teaching. Yes No
3. I monitor and assess if my students are learning. Yes No
4. I modify my activity to suit my learners in my classroom. Yes No
5. I lead in the implementation of a new curriculum in my school. Yes No
6. I write instructional materials based on the recommended school Yes No
curriculum.
7. I look for other ways of doing to improve teaching and learning in Yes No
my classroom.
8. I participate in community activities as a good citizen. Yes No
9. I disregard the needs of my learners and focus only in my lesson. Yes No
10. I teach my plan for the students to learn. Yes No

Case 1: I have a good idea on how to make my learners pay attention t the lesson. I
will use the new idea and find out if it will work.
_____________________________________________________________

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. ________________________________________________________

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.
________________________________________________________________
Case 4: 1 need a poem to celebrate the World Teachers' Day.
I composed one to be used in my class in Literature.
________________________________________________________

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 myself and it worked.
_____________________________________________________________

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.
______________________________________________________

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 enhance their strengths.
_______________________________________________________

Case 8: I am teaching in a very far away barangay with no electricity yet. Many of the
instructional aids 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. ____________________________________

Case 9: My principal asked me to attend a write shop to make the lesson exemplars
in the teaching of science in Grade 7. In the workshop, I used my experiences as a
science teacher for ten years, and my knowledge of the subject matter. At the end of
three days, I was able to produce lesson exemplars which 1 am proud of.
________________________________________________________________

Case 10: From 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 a 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?
_______________________________________________________________

• Did you learn more from the cases?

Choose one from Case 1 to 10 above. Reflect on the case you have chosen and
write your reflections on the box below. Ask your classmate to read and comment on
your reflections. Both of you, discuss your answers.