CURRICULUM

DEVELOPMENT AND
EVALUATION
WHAT IS CURRICULUM?

Curriculum
- Refers to an interactive system of instruction and learning with
specific goals, contents, strategies, measurement, and resources. The
desired outcome of curriculum is successful transfer and/or
development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
 WHAT IS CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT?
Curriculum Development
- Is defined as planned, a purposeful, progressive, and
systematic process to create positive improvements in the educational
system. Every time there are changes or developments happening
around the world, the school curricula are affected. There is a need to
update them to address the society’s needs.
The History of Curriculum KNOWLEDG
Development E AND
SKILLS TO
SURVIVAL

Saber-tooth Curriculum
- Is the first known curriculum during ancient time. CATCHING
In this era people taught their children knowledge FISH OR
and skills to survive by catching fish or hunting HUNTING
animals for food. They had no formal education ANIMALS
FOR FOOD
during that time, but their children learned and
acquired the knowledge and skills for survival.

THE
BEGINNING OF
PREHISTORIC
CURRICULUM
 IMPORTANCE OF CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
• To preserve the country’s • To improve people’s
national identity and to way of life.
ensure its economy’s growth
and stability . • To improve country’s
economy in general.
• To boost tourism industry.
COMPONENTS OF A CURRICULUM
Curriculum plays an important role in an
educational system. It is somehow a blueprint
which leads the teacher and the learner to reach
the desired objectives. As a result, authorities
have to design it in such a way that it could lead
the teacher and the learner meet the desired
learning outcomes.
Curriculum Aims, Goals Curriculum Content or
and Objectives Subject Matter

COMPONENT
S OF
CURRICULU
M

Curriculum Experience Curriculum Evaluation

 CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT IN THE
PHILIPPINES
HISTORY OF EDUCATION
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Pre-Colonial Period

Spanish period

First Republic

American period

Japanese Regime

Third Republic

Fourth Republic

Fifth Republic

Recent years
Pre-colonial period
- During the pre-colonial period, most children
were provided with solely vocational training,
which was supervised by parents, tribal tutors or
those assigned for specific, specialized roles within
their communities (for example, the babaylan). In
most communities, stories, songs, poetry, dances,
medicinal practices and advice regarding all sorts
of community life issues were passed from
generation to generation mostly through oral
tradition.
Spanish Period
- Formal education was brought to the
Philippines by the Spaniards, which was
conducted mostly by religious orders.
Upon learning the local languages and
writing systems, they began teaching
Christianity, the Spanish language, and
Spanish culture.
First Republic
- Established after the defeat of Spain during Spanish-American
War led to the short-lived Philippine Independence movement
and the insurgent First Philippine Republic. It reopened on
August 29, 1898 by the Secretary of Interior were Burgos
Institute (the country's first law school), the Academia Militar
(the country's first military academy), and the Literary
University of the Philippines are established.
 American Period
1899 - Americans were keen to open up seven schools with army servicemen teaching with army
command-selected books and supplies. In the same Year, more schools were opened, this time,
with 24 English-language teachers and 4500 students.

1901 - A highly centralized, experimental public school system was installed in 1901 by the Philippine
Commission and legislated by Act No. 74.

1901-1902 - The Philippine Commission authorized the Secretary of Public Instruction to bring more than
1,000 teachers from the United States, who were called the Thomasites.

1902 - Act No. 372 authorized the opening of provincial high schools.

1908 - Marked the year when Act No. 1870 initiated the opening of the University of the Philippines,
now the country's national university.

1907 - Act No. 1381, also known as Gabaldon Law, was passed in 1907, which provided a fund of a
million pesos for construction of concrete school buildings and is one of many attempts by the
government to meet this demand.
1921 - Committee on textbooks was officiated as the Board on Textbooks through Act No. 2957.
 JAPANESE REGIME
Realization of New Order and promote a friendly Japanese and
Philippine relationship to farthest extent.

Promote a new Filipino culture-based education

Elevation of morals of people, give up on materialism

Diffusion of Japanese language (Nihonggo) to the Philippines

Promotion of vocational courses (skills)

Love for labor

Third Republic
-In 1947, after the United States relinquished all its
authority over the Philippines, President
Manuel Roxas issued Executive Order No. 94 which
renamed Department of Instruction into
Department of Education.
 Fourth Republic
1972 - The Department of Education became the Department of
Education and Culture (DECS) under Proclamation 1081, which
was signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. On September 24,
1972, by Presidential Decree No. 1, DECS was decentralized with
decision-making shared among its thirteen regional offices

1978 - By the Presidential Decree No. 1397, DECS became the Ministry
of Education and Culture.

1982 - The Education Act of 1982 provided for an integrated system of

education covering both formal and non-formal education at all
levels. Section 29 of the act sought to upgrade educational
institutions' standards to achieve "quality education" through
voluntary accreditation for schools, colleges, and universities.
 Fifth Republic
February 2, - A new constitution was ratified on February 2, 1987, and entered into force of February 11. Section
1987 3, Article XIV of the 1987 Constitution contains the ten fundamental aims of education in the
Philippines.

1987 - The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports became again the DECS under Executive
Order No. 117. The structure of DECS as embodied in the order remained practically
unchanged until 1994.

May 26, 1988 - The Congress of the Philippines enacted the Republic Act 6655 or the Free Public Secondary
Education Act of 1988, which mandated free public secondary education commencing in the school
year 1988-1989.

February 3, - The Congress enacted Republic Act 7323, which provided that students aged 15 to 25 may be
1992 employed during their Christmas vacation and summer vacation with a salary not lower than the
minimum wage--with 60% of the wage paid by the employer and 40%
by the government

May 18, 1994 - The Congress passed Republic Act 7722 or the Higher Education Act of 1994, creating the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), which assumed the functions of the Bureau of Higher
Education and supervised tertiary degree programs.
 Fifth Republic
August 25, - The Congress passed Republic Act 7796 or the Technical Education and Skills Development Act of
1994 199, creating the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), which absorbed
the Bureau of Technical-Vocational Education as well as the National Manpower and Youth Council

August 2001 - Republic Act 9155, otherwise called the Governance of Basic Education Act, was passed. This act
changed the name of DECS to the current Department of Education (DepEd) and redefined the role
of field offices (regional offices, division offices, district offices and schools).

2005 - Philippines spent about US$138 per pupil, compared to US$3,728 in Japan,
US$1,582 in Singapore and US$852 in Thailand.

2006 - The Education for All (EFA) 2015 National Action Plan was implemented.

January 2009 - The Department of Education signed a memorandum of agreement with the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) to seal $86 million assistance to Philippine education,
particularly the access to quality education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM), and the Western and Central Mindanao regions.
Recent Years
Senator Benigno Aquino III expressed his desire to
implement the K-12 basic education cycle to
increase the number of years of compulsory
education to thirteen years. According to him, this
will "give everyone an equal chance to succeed"
and "have quality education and profitable jobs".
 TEACHER INVOLVEMENT IN
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

The Importance of
The Challenges
Teachers
Teachers Face in
Involvement in
Curriculum
Curriculum
Development
Development

Preparation for
Teacher The Teachers Role
Involvement in
Curriculum
in Curriculum
Development
Reflection
Development
THANK YOU

JHASTENE O. FRENAL
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