Teacher As A Curricularist - Curriculum Mapping Flashcards
The teacher as a curricularist…..
Knows the curriculum
Learning begins with knowing
The teacher as a learner starts with knowing about the curriculum, the subject matter or the content
The teacher as a curricularist……
Writes the curriculum
A classroom teacher takes record of knowledge concept, subject matter or content. These needs to be written or preserved
The teacher as a curricularist……
Plans the curriculum
A good curriculum has to be planned.
It is the role of teacher to make a yearly, monthly or daily plan of the curriculum
The teacher as a curricularist……
Initiates the curriculum
In these case where the curriculum is recommended to the school from DEPED, CHED, TESDA, UNESCO, UNICEF, or other educational agencies for improvement of quality education, the teacher is obliged to implement it.
The teacher as a curricularist……
Innovates the curriculum
Creativity and innovation are hallmarks of an excellent teacher.
A curriculum is always dynamic, hence it keeps on changing.
The teacher as a curricularist……
Implements the curriculum
The curriculum that remains recommended or written will never serve it’s purpose. Somebody has to implement it (gina teach na nya sa students )
The teacher as a curricularist……
Evaluates the curriculum
Answer questions like “how can one determine if the desired learning outcomes have been achieved?” Questions that needs the help of curriculum evaluator which is the teacher.
Definition/s of curriculum
(5 most short def. Check the handouts for more def.)
Taba and Tyler - curriculum is a plan for achieving goals
Eisner - describes curriculum as a program that a school offers to its students
Oliva- a plan or program for all experiences out of class or school directed by school personnels
Pratt - it is an organized set of formal education and /or training intentions.
Doll- formal or informal process of gaining knowledge a d understanding, developing skills and altering attitudes, appreciations and values in a school
Saylor, Alexander and Lewis - it is a plan for providing sets of learning opportunities for persons to be educated
Wiles and Bondi - a developmental process that determines a philosophy assess learning ability, consider posible methods of instruction, implements strategies, selects assessment devices and undergoes continuous adjustments.
Principle of curriculum
Child- centeredness
Activity- centeredness
Environmental- centeredness
Understanding Human Relationships
Community- centeredness
Interconnectedness
Interest
Learner Diversity
Utility
Increase difficulty/complexity
Forward looking
Resources Availability
Flexibility
Teacher Participation
Leisure and Well-being
Conservation
Child- centeredness
The curriculum should be child centered.
What is to be given children in the form of learning experiences at a particular age and grade
Activity- centeredness
Children a quite active by nature.
Children always takes interest, pay attention and are benefited by those learning experiences that involve activities, learning by doing and living on their part
Environment- centeredness
The subject stands mainly for acquainting the students with their physical and social environment, the people, social institution, physical surroundings and their mutual interactions.
Understanding Human Relationships
Development of necessary understanding, skills and attitude among the students for the proper maintenance of human relationships is one of the prominent aim of teaching social science in our schools
Community- centeredness
Curriculum of social science my help the students in drawing closer to the community and contribute appropriately and its progress.
Interconnectedness
Curriculum provide appropriate opportunities to the students to acquire the appropriate desired knowledge and experiences in a correlated and intergrated manner for being utilized properly in their life
Interest
It is the mother of both attention and motivation the well known key factor in the success of any teaching learning process
Learner Diversity
It is natural for the students of social sciences to differ from one another in respect of their possession of general and specific abilities, capacities, interest, attitude, aptitudes learning potential and many other characteristics
Utility
Acc. to this principle only those topics, subject material and learning experiences should be found to possess any utility to the students should be in the curriculum
Increasing Difficulty/ Complexity
The study of the students in a particular school does not end with the study of their subject in a particular grade or school stage
Forward looking
The principle of forward looking of their topics contents and learning experiences that may prove helpful to students in learning their future life in a proper way
Resources Availability
The implementation of curriculum carries no less significance than its contribution or development.
Flexibility
The curriculum should show sings of flexibility a d dynamism.
Teacher Participation
The teacher are the persons who actually have to implement and carry out the spirit of the curriculum
Leisure and well being
The curriculum should prepare the child not only for academics but for the use of leisure time
Conservation
The present, past and future needs of the community should be taken into consideration
Different ways of understanding curriculum
Curriculum as an experience
Curriculum as an objective
Curriculum as a process
Curriculum as product
Curriculum as an experience
- experiences set up by the school for the purpose of disciplining the students, and youth in group ways of thinking and acting
- series of things that children and young must do an experience
- life and program of the school
- composed of all the experiences
- refers to how the child respond to, engage with, or learns from the events, people, materials and social or emotional environmental ot the classroom
- either child- centered or teacher centered
Importance of experience- centered curriculum
• experience- centered curriculum is framed according to the psychological bases of education
• the child gets direct shift experiences when the information presented is live
• it creates a social environment
It develops social qualities like cooperation, sympathy, belongingness, love and others
• the teaching - learning situation is enrolled
• the education is providing according to the needs and necessities of the child
• the child in direct contact in life situation
• experiences are generated out of curiosity
• it develops group loyalty
• it helps to solve social problems of life
Curriculum as an objective
Objectives are statements that describe the end- point or desired outcomes of the curriculum, a unit, a lesson plan or learning activity.
- specify and describe curriculum outcome in a more specific terms than goals or aim do
(Several criteria for ensuring the appreciateness of objective)
Curriculum objective:
• creative and flexible approaches to learning and teaching
• offering an innovative curriculum developed with the aspirations and interests of the student at the center
• making effective is of ICT and news technologies to motivate and inspire students
• nurturing close partnerships with local and international organizations, giving students a wide range of opportunities to experience the world work
• providing opportunities for the students to extend their learning outside of the formal curriculum
Objectives are no different than goals, because they serve for main purposes:
1. To describe the purpose of an activity (or intervention
2. To establish the desired result
3. To identify the methodology to be used to get there
4. To determine how success will be measured
Curriculum as a product
- Curriculum as a product is viewed through objectives (goals, plans, outcomes).
- Common since the late 1970s with the rise of vocationalism and competency-based education.
- Dominant writers: Franklin Bobbitt and Ralph W. Tyler.