THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM

SY 2020-2021

Name: Alcansare, Jhon Junard G. Course: BSED-Fil.III

ACTIVITY SHEETS #1

Chapter 1: UNDERSTANDING CURRICULUM

Directions: Read the content on pages 1-12 in your reference book entitled ,”Teacher and the School
Curriculum”, by Greag Tabios Pawilen and do the different activities below as your output.

ACTIVITY 1 – Write a personal definition of curriculum Explain the definition

ACTIVITY 1
Operationall, I defined curriculum as a course and method.
Write a personal definition of curriculum. Explain the definition.
Curriculum as a course means that it is the content on what the teachers should teach to his/her
students, it is also the selected type of content other curriculum workers planned and made.
Courses may also refered as a content of a subject matter.

At the same time, it is a method because teachers and other curriculum workers need to follow
certain procedures to established a successful type of curriculum, these includes how the teachers
do their tasks, how other curriculum workers make their plans successful, how teachers act
effectively, etc.

ACTIVITY 2- Browse the internet and check some examples of an ideal curriculum suggested by
professional organizations. List down the examples below

1.American Educational Research Association- AERA, founded in 1916, is concerned with improving
the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation
and/by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research result.

2. International Reading Association- is a professional organization for reading teachers.

3. National Council of Teachers of Mathematic-is an association of math teachers. Teaching

children mathematics, mathematics teachers and other math journals are published by this
organization.

4. National Science Teacher Association-this website contains a good deal of free content from the
preeminent association for science teachers.

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ACTIVITY 3- Think about this: What are the benefits and possible pitfalls of having an official curriculum
to all schools?

The benefits of having an official curriculum to all schools is that it makes standards and expectations
about what children should learn clear to everyone. It makes progress and attainmemt measurable and
comparable on all scale. That way, underperformance can be dealt with and success can modeled and
shared.

While on the other hand, there are also pitfalls or danger of having an official curriculum to all schools
because again students are divert, teachers are divert, schools are divert, environment are divert,
facilities are divert and so on and so forth. To make it short, we are not the same, others lacked in
terms lf facilities while others dont have. Students have their own unique way of learning, teachers also
have their own way of teaching. Having an official curriculum may lead to unfair academic capability.

ACTIVITY 4- Discuss the roles of teachers and other curriculum workers in ensuring the success of the
implemented curriculum.

Roles a teacher and other curriculum workers in emsuring the success of the implemented curriculum:

A teacher must be fully equiped both professional knowledge and a good character, as well as the
other curriculum workers.

In terms of knowledge, a teacher should know how to teach or handle his/her students and know what
to teach. At the same time, a teacher will serve as a good role model to his/her students, mold the
students to become the very best version of theirselves. This idea may sounds far from the main topic
which is the curriculum but the only person/s who can ensure the success of the implemented
curriculum is the class in which it is taught.

Name: Alcansare, Jhon Junard G.

ACTIVITY 5:

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Provide an example of a null or censored curriculum.

There are several examples of null curriculum that can be identified in content areas. For example, in
social studies, the teacher may give a general overview of the history of science while covering the
scientific revolution. Another example would be the exclusion of Darwin's theory of evolution from the
official biology curriculum.

ACTIVITY 6

Provide an example of a hidden curriculum.

Hidden curriculum can be defined as the lessons that are taught informally.

For example, many students pick up on the fact that year-end test scores are what really matter. This
attitude and idea isn't taught in any formal way, but kids absorb and internalize them through natural
observation and participation in classroom and social activities.

ACTIVITY 7

Examine a philosophy of a particular curriculum.Analyze what curriculum conception it is leaning to.

As what I have choosen, TESDA is a type of curriculum wherein they provide theories and hands on
learnings to their learners. Their main content is more on technical schooling and other vocational fields.
What I observed is that they are more on application. To analyze this particular curriculum on what
curriculum conception it is leaning to, I think that this belongs to Cognitive Processes Conception, the
fact that the knowledge which learners acquired are for long-term or life time learning. We all know that
experiences are better than theories alone, that is why it is hard to forget the things we learned through
first hand experiences.

Name: Jhon Junard G. Alcansare

ACTIVITY 8:

Select a school, provide examples of the following curriculum intent and analyze the relationship

Curriculum Aims:

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 University of Cebu fosters a visible community extension program that gives hope and transform lives.

Curriculum Goals:
Carry out integrated and sustainable extension programs responsive to social, economic and environmental
needs

UCLM CARES

University of Cebu Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue Community Awareness, Relations & Extension Services

Curriculum Objectives:

In pursuit of its mission, it is commited to:

1. Maintain harmonious relations with the partner and wider communities.

2. Enhance instruction through research-based extension programs.

3. Promote coherence of extension program among the different campuses and sectors of the school
and those of the partner-communities through appropriate mobilization and sharing of resources.

4. Create opportunities in the service programs for:

(a) Involvement of the faculty, students, support staff and alumni;

(b) Empowerment of people to take actions on social, economic and environmental issues; and

(c) collaboration in community developmental programs and promotion of people’s welfare agenda.

I think the relationship of these curriculum intent is focuses on helping each other towards success.

ACTIVITY 9:

Provide examples of a curriculum content and learning experiences . Examine their relationship

CONTENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES

1. Entrepreneurship (making a business plan) At first I was nervous about this content because
I have no idea about making business plans and I
heard from other sections that thid activity was so
stressful and they are pressured. But I did my best

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2. Empowerment Technologies
(making a website or webpage)
to overcome this fear. Our instructor challenged
me to do this activity individually, while my other
classmates have their groups. Since I am not
participating any event that my intructor organized
because I amnsick during that time, he challenged
me to do the activity on my own.I am exhausted
during that time. Considering the small amount of
time to be rendered on this activity, I am still
motivated to dobthe task to prove that I can. A
nights, late at night doing research, sleepless
nights of thinking just to finish all 10 chapters of
business planning and making only 5 slides of
powerpoint presentation for the entire chapter.
After that, a couple of days of preparations for the
upcoming presentation. The day of presentation,
the output is ready, materials are ready, the panels
are ready, but i am nervous during that time since I
am the first presenter and we can only use English
as a medium of prrsentation. I said to myself I will
take and finish the challenge. After the
presentation, I am grateful and overwhelmed
about the comments I received from the panels.
They congratulate me, my instructor congratulate
me for the effort and time I rendered and he said
that I did it successfully. Those feedback bring
tears to my eyes simbolizes joy that I did it, I
learned it and proved that I can inspite of the
obstacles I've encountered. This is my learning
experience on the said content.
This content also makes me feel nervous since I
dont have enough knowledge about softwares. So
what I did is that I stayed focus on the discussions
and spend more time discovering about softwares.
Even I'm at home, I still find a way to connect to
my instructor and asking for help about the said
content. After that, I spend time watching video
tutorials about making website or webpage and I
managed to cope up with it. Evaluation time
comes, we are given only 30min to finish the entire
activity and I managed to do the task successfully.
Note that only the basic part of making a website
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 or webpage we've been tackled.

Contents and learning experiences are related with each other, the fact that content gives us
information and datas about a certain topic and on the other hand learning experiencs gives us the
ablity and capability to apply what we have learned on the said content.

Name: Jhon Junard G. Alcansare

ACTIVITY 10

Analyze examples of curriculum evaluation tools. Examine how the evaluation instruments measure the
success of the curriculum.

1. What curriculum competencies and performance standards are evaluated?

In a particular school, there are multiple competencies and performance standards are evaluated. A
concrete example of these are the students' learning from the lessons they tackled, their understandings
about a particular lesson, the background knowledge or simply called as stock knowledge students have
abputba particular topic, etc.

2. What forms of evaluation tools are used?

As what I mentioned above, it uses different methods as a form of evaluation tools. The teachers may
use the paper and pencil test method, the oral recitation or performance method, the group activity
based method, etc. These evaluation tools I mentioned are used to evaluate lesrner's learnings in
relation to what lessons they've tackled.

3. How often does the school evaluate the curriculum?

It is case to case basis, schools may evaluate the curriculum daily if it is a daily lesson, weekly if it is a
weekly lesson. But usually schools undergo monthly evaluation through monthly examination, this
includes all the lessons they've been tackled in a period of a particular term or grading. This kind of
evaluation usually happens in all schools and level.

4. How does the school evaluate its hidden curriculum?

Schools may evaluate its hidden curriculum by observing its teachers and learners how they react with
peers and how do the perceive different beliefs.

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5. What decisions and actions are made after getting the results of the curriculum evaluation?

For me, According on my own understanding on what decisions and actions to be made after getting
the results of the curriculum evaluation is either proceed or retake. Simply means that if the results of
the evaluation is good or average and above average, the teacher will proceed on his/her next lesson.
On the other hand, if the results of the evaluation are below average it needs to retake or repeat.

Reference Book: Teacher and The School Curriculum by Greg Tabios Pawilen

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