MERIEL P.

CEBU BEED2A

CHAPTER 1: ACTIVITY 1
Write a personal definition of curriculum. Explain the definition.
Curriculum as Career guide. This definition helps student choose their courses
according to their passion, dream or goals, skills, capabalities and many more.
This will serve as their guide in choosing what they must take in College.

ACTIVITY 2:
Browse the internet and check some examples of an ideal curriculum suggested
by the professional organization. List down the examples below.
1. IASCE ( INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF COOPERATION IN
EDUCATION)
2. IRA ( INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION)
3. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES
4. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES
5. NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS
6. BSCS ( THE BIOLOGICAL CURRICULUM STUDY
7. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS IN ENGLISH
8. NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT
9. LEARNING FORWARD
10. ASCD ( ASSOCIATION FOR SUPERVISIONS AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT )
and etc.
CHAPTER 1: ACTIVITY 3
Think about this what are the benefits of having an official curriculum prescribed
to all schools.
 Documenting curriculum fosters consistency: consistency within curriculum
structure, standards, and expectations.
 Documenting curriculum increases collaboration: collaboration between
educators as they see their colleagues as resources and allies in the
process.
 Documenting curriculum allows for reflection: reflection on the strength of
the curriculum by comparing it alongside strides in student growth and
proficiency.
 Documenting curriculum improves the teaching process. It gives teachers
tangible resources and goals, stimulates creativity, and enables self-
reflection.
 And, most importantly, documenting curriculum improves student
outcomes. All the advantages described by respondents culminated in this
shared goal. Students benefit from organized curriculum held to a high
expectation. Students benefit from teachers who work together. Students
benefit from malleable, living curriculum. And, students benefit when
teachers are empowered.

ACTIVITY 4:
Discuss the roles of teachers and other curriculum works in choosing the
success or the unfinished curriculum.
Teachers/educators are the major pillars in the teaching and learning process.
Without doubt, the most important person in the practice curriculum is the
teacher. With their knowledge , experience and competencies teachers are
central to any curriculum improvement effort, they are responsible for
introducing the curriculum in the classroom and outside the classroom as well.
 Teacher’s role in planning the curriculum: • Teachers know their students
better than others involved in the curriculum process. While the state often
dictates the skills covered by the curriculum, a teacher can provide insight into
the types of materials, activities and specific skills that need to be included.
Teachers from multiple grade levels may collaborate to identify skills students
need at each level and ensure that the curriculum adequately prepares
students to advance to the next grade-level.

ACTIVITY 5:
Provide an examples of a null or censored curriculum.
the exclusion of Darwin's theory of evolution from the official biology curriculum.
Null content may represent specific facts omitted in a particular unit of study.

ACTIVITY 6: Provide an example of a hidden curriculum.

 Many textbooks about early North American history still ignore much of the
violence perpetrated against First Nations and Native American groups, or provide
outright false information implying that all interactions between settlers and
indigenous groups were peaceful and positive.
ACTIVITY 7: Examine a philosophy of particular curriculum. Analyze what
curriculum conception it is learning to.
curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a
specific course or program. In dictionaries, curriculum is often defined as the
courses offered by a school, but it is rarely used in such a general sense in schools.
ACTIVITY 8: Select a school, provide examples of the following curriculum and
analyze the realationship.
UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST (UF)
CURRICULUM AIMS:
1. To provide an essential education foundation for the students that will imbues
them with the commitment to function effectively and efficiently as human
persons, as ethical and productive professionalsm and as environmentally
conscious and concerned members oftheir community.
2. To instill the students a counseling guest for learning through inquiry while
guided by rational, critical thinking and a deep appreciation for work well done.
3. To develop in the students a high respect for the rights and freedoms of others
even as they assert their own rights and freedoms in their everyday lives but, in
particular, in the performance of their educational responsibilities as sickness of
knowledge and truth and facilitators of learning.

ACTIVITY 9: PROVIDE AND EXAMPLES OF CURRICULUM AND LEARNING

EXPERIENCES . EXAMINE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS.
Curriculum content and learning experience are great concepts
in the development process of a curriculum. ... Conclusively, curriculum content
and learning experience are related in the area of goal achievement, selection,
organization and integration.

ACTIVITY 10:

1. How often does the school evaluate the curriculum ?

The curriculum will be evaluated FORMATIVELY - in an ongoing way, checking
what is working and what is not, as the course is delivered. Waiting to evaluate
the course at the end, is not good sense. If something is wrong with the
curriculum it should be adjusted at the time. SUMMATIVE evaluation happens at
the end of the course. This provides the whole picture of the course and decisions
can be made about what needs to be deleted, what the strengths are, what the
areas are that require work. SUMMATIVE evaluation is also referred to as
FORMAL evaluation.

2. How does the school evaluate its hidden curriculum?

It's important to evaluate teachers on their performance in their own subject area
using a range of criteria, and one of those criteria should be the teacher's grasp
and communication of the ethical dimension to what students are learning. The
original and broadest purpose of schools as organized institutions of society has
always been to shape the kind of people we are preparing for the future. Each
subject area has a direct relationship to that higher purpose, yet teachers'
thinking and understanding about this relationship is often limited. Teachers
should be aware and able to articulate this specific dimension to their work:

3. What decisions and actions are made after getting the results of the curriculum
evaluations?
Curriculum evaluation provides information necessary for teachers, school
managers, curriculum specialist for policy recommendations that will enhance
achieved learning outcomes. This ids the basis of decision making.
ACTIVITY 12:

1. Identify different social issues, needs and demands that should be considered
in the curriculum.
Looking at demographic trends, how can youmeet educational needs, demands
&expectations of its stakeholders?• Educational challenges: anticipating
theknowledge, skills, critical thinking abilities &wisdom needed for the globalized
future.

2. Discuss how these social issues, needs and demands may influence the
curriculum in terms of:
* Aims,goals, and objectives
Curriculum aims or goals relate to educational aims and philosophy. They are
programmatic and normally do not delineate the specific courses or specific items
of content. Typically they refer to the accomplishment of groups (e.g. all learners,
learners in general, most learners) rather than the achievement of individual
learners. They are broad enough to lead to specific curriculum objectives.
Examples include: ‘students will learn to respect and get along with people of
different cultures’; ‘students will develop a sense of civic responsibility’; ‘students
will attain an appreciation for literature, art, music’.
* Content
curriculum content is defined as what the teacher and the students pay attention
to when they are teaching and learning. It is a list of subjects, topics, themes,
concepts or works to be covered. It is the subject matter, process, approaches,
and feelings used in teaching as the curriculum is being implemented. Curriculum
content refer to what is taught in school, it is the subject matter or topics
consisting facts, concepts, ideas, knowledge within a particular subject and how
they will bring about change in the individual and to the society, (Urevbu, 1994).
*Learning experiences
These contents must be in line with the learning experiences and there must be
Content involves subject matter drawn on the basis of problems,on the facy that
they relates to our present social needs economic and political situation can be
achieve and also for learners to demand pleasure learning.
*Evaluation
 The term “evaluation” generally applies to the process of making a value
judgment. These units may include national Ministries of Education, regional
education, Assessment of student learning has always been a powerful influence.

ACTIVITY 13: Identify suggested industry skills and habits of mind that should ne
included to enhance the curriculum.

Industry skills and habits of mind that should be included to enhance the
curriculum
Integrating the 16 Habits of Mind
 Persisting
 Managing Impulsivity
 Listening to Others with Understanding and Empathy
 Thinking Flexibly
 Thinking About Our Thinking (Metacognition)
 Striving for Accuracy and Precision
 Questioning and Posing Problems
 Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations.
ACTIVITY 14:
1: What are your schools vision, mission and core values?

2. Discuss your own understanding of your schools vision, mission, and core
values.

3. How are your schools mission, vision, and core values reflected in your lessons
in school activities?