EDUC 8

ROLES OF
CURRICULARIST

PREPARED BY:

ZYRA ALMAZAN
BIENVENIDO B. FIGUEROA JR
ALOHA M. MAGBANUA
 Roles of
Curricularist
Look at the words inside the box. Which one describes
as curricularist?

writer
Knower
facilitator
Evaluator Innovator
Grower
Showing Researcher

Planner recommender Copying

Builder Rewarding
initiator
Broadening
Are you aware that the teacher’srole
is very complex?
• Teachers do a series of
interrelated actions about
curriculum, instruction,
assessment, evaluation,
teaching and learning.
• A teacher is involved with
curriculum continuously
all day.
Curricularists in the past
Those who developed
curriculum theories.
The most influential
curricularists:
 John Dewey
 Hilda Taba
 Franklin Bobbit
 Ralph Tyler
John Dewey
Dewey's educational theories were
presented in My Pedagogic Creed
(1897), The School and Society
(1900), The Child and the Curriculum
(1902), Democracy and Education
(1916), Schools of To-morrow (c1915)
with Evelyn Dewey, and Experience
and Education (1938).
“Education is not preparation for life;
Education is life itself”
-John Dewey
Hilda Taba

Her dissertation entitled Dynamics of Education: A

Methodology of Progressive Educational Thought
(1932). Inductive Teaching Model.
Franklin Bobbit
The Curriculum (1918) and How to Make a
Curriculum (1924). Scientific Curriculum
methods.
Franklin Bobbitt
Curriculum should adapt to the needs of an
individual.

People should not be taught what they will not

use.
5-steps for Curriculum Sequence

1. Analysis of human experience

2. Job Analysis
3. Create Objectives
4. Select Objectives
5. Plan for the individual
 Ralph Tyler
“Father of Evaluation”

Tyler spent at OSU clearly shaped the trajectory

of his career in testing and curriculum
development. Basic Principles of Curriculum and
Instruction because of the value Tyler placed on
linking objectives to experience (instruction) and
evaluation.
Teacher as Curricularist
 Curricularist
• A person who is involved in curriculum
knowing, writing, planning, implementing,
evaluating, innovating, and initiating

• A teacher’s role is broader and inclusive of

other functions and so teacher is a curricularist.
 What does a teacher do to deserve the
label as curricularist?
• The classroom is the first place of
curricular engagement. The first school
experience sets the tone to understand
the meaning of schooling through the
interactions of learners and teachers
that will lead to learning.Hence,
curriculum is the heart of schooling
Describing teacher as curricularist
 Knower

1. Knows the curriculum

Learning begins with knowing. 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 the acquiring
academic knowledge about formal or informal. It is
mastery of the subject matter.
 2. Writes the curriculum
• A classroom teacher Writer
takes record of
knowledge concepts,
subject matter or
content. These need to
be written or preserved.
The teacher writes
books, modules,
laboratory manuals,
instructional guides,
and reference materials
in paper or electronic
media.
 3. Plans the curriculum
• A good curriculum has
to be planned. It is the Planner
role of the teacher to
make a yearly, monthly
or daily plan of the
curriculum.
• The teacher takes into
consideration several
factors in planning a
curriculum. These are:
learners, support
material, time, subject
matter or content,
desired outcomes ,
context of the learners
among others.
 4. Initiates curriculum
• In cases where the curriculum is Initiator
recommended to the schools
from DepEd, CHED, TESDA,
UNESCO, UNICEF or other
educational agencies for
improvement of quality
education, the teacher is obliged
to implement.
• Implementation of a new
curriculum requires the open
mindedness of the teacher, and
the full belief that the curriculum
will enhance learning.
 5. Innovates the
curriculum Innovator
• Creativity and innovation are
hallmarks of an excellent
teacher. A curriculum is always
dynamic, hence keeps on
changing. From the content
strategies, ways of holding,
blocks of time, ways of
evaluating, kinds of students
and skills of teachers, one
cannot find a single eternal
curriculum that would
perpetually fit.
 Implements the curriculum
• The curriculum that remains
recommended or written will never
serve its purpose. Somebody hasto
implement it.
• Heart of schooling is the curriculum.
• It is this role where the teacher
becomes the implementor of the
curriculum.
• She is at the height of an engagement
with the learners , with support
materials in order to achieve the
desired outcome. It is whereteaching,
guiding and facilitating skills of the Implementor
teacher is expected to be the highest
level.
 7. Evaluates the curriculum
• How can one determine if the desiredlearning
outcomes have been achieved?
• Is the curriculum working?

Evaluator
Thank you