LEADERSHIP IN

CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
PREPARED BY: ELEONOR P. PILAC
CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP refers to the role you play in helping enable your
school community achieve your goals.
CURRICULUM refers to all experiences that learners go through in
a program of education. The school takes responsibility for all
these planned experiences.
CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP pushes you to exercise functions
that enable the achievement of your goal to provide quality
education to your learners.
The Role and Functions of a Curriculum Leader

As curriculum leader, you need to know how

curriculum design informs instructional design.
Glatthorn (1997) provides us with a list of essential
functions of curriculum leadership carried out at the
school and classroom levels.
The Four Major Task of Curriculum Leadership
Ensuring curriculum quality and applicability.
Integrating and aligning the curriculum.
Implementing the curriculum efficiently and
effectively.
Regular evaluating, enriching and updating the
curriculum.
A curriculum leader is expected to know the basics of
curriculum development.
The most effective curriculum leaders:
 Embrace the dynamic role and go beyond
expectations
 Establish new directions
 Align people and resources
 Motivate participants and aid school improvement
processes
Planning to Build Curriculum
Focus on the Students
When writing curriculum, it helps to remember that it's
not about writing the best lesson plans or developing a
perfect set of in-class projects and assignments.
Instead, it's about meeting the needs of the students in
a way that ensures the material is understood,
maintained, and applied in and out of the classroom.
Implementing Curriculum

Desired Learning Outcome

 Review the components of a daily plan for
teaching.
 Identify intended learning outcomes.
 Match learning outcomes with appropriate teaching
methods.
Evaluating Curriculum
Curriculum evaluation is a component that responds
to public accountability. It looks into educational
reforms or innovations that happen in the teacher’s
classroom, the school, district or the whole
educational system as well. It is establishing the
merit and worth of a curriculum.
True leaders always practice the three R’s :
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all their actions
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Thank you for listening! 

Ms. Eleonor P. Pilac