Planning the Curriculum in Education

1. Curriculum Planning
Essential Elements and Importance
Reporter: Eleazar-Rey M. Agudo

2. Why Plan in the first place?
Decide how and where to set priorities in the
use of limited human and economic resources.
Decide how to accomplish not only your
short-range goals but also your medium and
long-range goals
Build on the strong and successful parts of
the program. As well as to identify and
improve the weak parts
Reach agreement in the school community
about what to do and how to do it.

3. What a Good Planning
Process Is
It is organized thinking that helps in deciding what
needs to be done, how it will happen, and who will
do it.
It is the setting of priorities in the use of resources:
people, money, time and materials
It is trying to anticipate the future.
It is adapting and modifying steps or processes
until they work for you

4. It is using leadership to motivate
people and to coordinate their activities
It is reflecting on what has been
planned already and how it is working
It includes the periodic recording of
planning decision for future reference.
What a Good Planning
Process Is

5. What a Good Planning
Process Should Do
It should stimulate change and improvement
It should help you figure out what will happen and
how it should happen
It should raise awareness about what is being done
and why
It should build a trail of activities over time so you
can look at what has worked well and what has not
It should produce a blueprint, road map, or recipe to
be used.
It should decrease fear about the process of change
and its result

6. Curriculum Planning
 Is a continuous process which involves
activities characterized by
interrelationships among individuals and
Groups as they work together in
studying, planning, developing and
improving the curriculum, which is the
total environment planned by the school.

7. Participants of curriculum
planning get involved in variety of
activities such as:
Discussing common problems
Making decisions
Developing a functional philosophy
Studying learners and the environment
Keeping up to date with the knowledge
Studying ways to improve instructions
Carrying research and evaluation

8. Importance of Curriculum
Planning
“Unplanned teaching and learning is a recipe of wasting time”
 Curriculum planning develop well-
coordinated, quality teaching, learning and
assessment programs, which build students’
knowledge, skills and behaviors in the
disciplines, as well as their interdisciplinary
and/or physical, personal and social capacities.

9. Importance of Curriculum Planning
Curriculum planning ensures:
a shared vision
shared understandings and a common language
in the school community
optimum coverage of all domains within the
curriculum
continuity of learning between domains across
year levels
the full range of learning needs of students are
addressed

10. students are given opportunities to develop
deep understanding
cohesiveness in teaching, learning and
assessment practices
elimination of repetition of learning activities
without depth or breadth across levels
Improved student learning outcomes.
The Curriculum is likely to be good one if
there is good curriculum planning; and
conversely, the curriculum is likely to be
mediocre one if there is a mediocre curriculum
planning.