THE TEACHER as a

curricularist

Ramonito N. Abesar, LPT, MAEd-PES

Learning Outcomes:

• Enhance understanding of the

role of the teacher as a
curricularist in the classroom and
school
Take off
• What specific roles do teachers play as
curricularist?
• Should they do these roles?
• This lesson will bring all of you to
enhanced understanding and
realization of the multifaceted roles of
the teacher which relate to the
curriculum.
 Pick up the word that describes the
teacher as a curricularist.

• EXCITING FACILITATING /KNOWING

• PLANNING
• FRUSTRATING GROWING Initiating
• Growing
• Evaluating /Innovating BROADENING
Building
• Rewarding
• Believing Recommending Showing
Copying
• Teachers do a series of interrelated actions
about curriculum, instruction, assessment,
evaluation, teaching and learning.

• A classroom teacher is involved with

curriculum continuously all day.

• Curricularist is referred only to those

who developed curriculum theories
CURRICULARIST:

• A professional who is a curriculum

specialist
( Hayes, 1991; Ornstein et.al)

• A person who is involved in

curriculum knowing, writing,
planning, implementing, evaluating ,
innovating, and initiating .
Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 1. Knows the curriculum.

• The teacher as a learner starts with knowing

about the curriculum, the subject matter or the
content.
• As a teacher, one has to master what are included
in the curriculum. It is acquiring academic
knowledge both formal (disciplines, logic) or
informal (derived from experiences, vicarious,
and unintended). It is the mastery of the matter
( KNOWER)
Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 2. Writes the curriculum.

• A classroom teacher takes record of the

knowledge concepts, subject matter content
which needs to write and to preserved.
 Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 3. Plans the curriculum.
• It is the role of the teacher to make a yearly,
monthly or daily plan of the curriculum. This will
serve as guide in the implementation of the
curriculum.
• Teacher takes into consideration several factors
in planning a curriculum. These factors include
the learner, the support materials, time, subject
matter content. desired outcomes, the context of
the learner among others,( Planner)
 Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 4. Initiates the curriculum
• In cases where the curriculum is
recommended to the schools from DepEd,
CHED, TESDA, UNESCO, UNICEF.
• Implementation of the new curriculum requires
the open mindedness of the teacher, and the full
belief that curriculum will enhanced learning.
(Initiator)
 Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 5. INNOVATES the Curriculum

• From the content, strategies, ways of doing,

blocks of time, ways of evaluating, kinds of
students and skills of teachers, one cannot find a
single eternal curriculum that would perpetually
fit. A good teacher, therefore, innovates the
curriculum and thus becomes a curriculum
innovator. ( Innovator)
 Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 6. Implements the curriculum

• It is the role of the teacher to becomes the

curriculum implementor. An implementor gives
life to the curriculum plan. It is where teaching
as science and as an art comes in , where the
elements of the curriculum will come into play.
 Role of a teacher in relation to
describe as a curricularist:
• 7. Evaluates the curriculum.

• How can one determine if the desired learning

outcomes have been achieved?
• Does it bring the desired results?
• What do outcomes reveal?
• Should be the curriculum should be modified?
• These are some few questions that need the help
of a curriculum evaluator, that person is the
TEACHER. ( Evaluator)