1. THE TEACHER AS
A CURRICULARIST
• Learning Outcomes
Enhance understanding
the role of the teacher as
a curricularist in the
classroom and in the
school.
Editor's Notes
Teacher has complex roles!
This lesson will bring all of us to an enhance understanding and realization of the multifaceted roles of the teacher which is relate to the curriculum.
EXCITING Frustrating facilitating Planning Growing Evaluating Innovating Broadening Building Copying Recommending Showing Rewarding
Look at the words inside the box. Which one describes the teacher as curricularist?
Are you aware that the teacher’s role is very complex?
• Teachers do a series of interrelated actions about curriculum, instruction, assessment, evaluation, teaching and learning.
• A teacher is involved with curriculum continuously all day.
• But very seldom has a teacher been described as curriculum continuously all day.
Curricularists in the past
• Those who developed curriculum theories.
• The most influential curricularists (Hayes, 1991)
• John Dewey
• Hilda Taba
• Franklin Bobbit
• Ralph Tyler
Curricularist
• A professional who is curriculum specialist
• A person who is involved in curriculum knowing, writing, planning, implementing, evaluating, innovating, and initiating
• A teacher’s role is broader and inclusive of other functions and so teacher is a curricularist.
What does a teacher do to deserve the label as curricularist?
• The classroom is the first place of curricular engagement.
The first school experience sets the tone to understand the meaning of schooling
through the interactions of learners and teachers
that will lead to learning.
Hence, curriculum is the heart of schooling.
Describing teacher as 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.
As a teacher, one has to master what are included in the curriculum.
It is the acquiring academic knowledge about formal (disciplines, logic)
or informal (derived from experiences). It is mastery of the subject matter.
knower
2. Writes the curriculum
• A classroom teacher takes record of knowledge concepts, subject matter or content.
These need to be written or preserved.
The teacher writes books, modules, laboratory manuals,
instructional guides, and reference materials in paper or electronic media.
writer
3. Plans the curriculum
• A good curriculum has to be planned. It is the role of the teacher to make a yearly, monthly or daily plan of the curriculum.
• The teacher takes into consideration several factors in planning a curriculum.
These are: learners, support material, time, subject matter or content, desired outcomes , context of the learners among others.
planner
4. Initiates curriculum
• In cases where the curriculum is recommended to the schools from DepEd, CHED, TESDA, UNESCO, UNICEF
or other educational agencies for improvement of quality education, the teacher is obliged to implement.
• Implementation of a new curriculum requires the open mindedness of the teacher,
and the full belief that the curriculum will enhance learning.
initiator
5. Innovates the curriculum
• Creativity and innovation are hallmarks of an excellent teacher.
A curriculum is always dynamic, hence keeps on changing.
From the content strategies, ways of holding, blocks of time,
ways of evaluating, kinds of students and skills of teachers,
one cannot find a single eternal curriculum that would perpetually fit
INNOVATOR
Implements the curriculum
• The curriculum that remains recommended or written will never serve its purpose.
Somebody has to implement it. • Heart of schooling is the curriculum.
• It is this role where the teacher becomes the implementor of the curriculum.
• She is at the height of an engagement with the learners , with support materials
in order to achieve the desired outcome. It is where teaching, guiding
and facilitating skills of the teacher is expected to be the highest level.
Evaluates the curriculum
• How can one determine if the desired learning outcomes have been achieved?
• Is the curriculum working?
