ST.

MARY’S COLLEGE OF CATBALOGAN

CATBALOGAN CITY, SAMAR

LEARNING MODULE IN EDUC. 18

(THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM)

Name: _________________________________ Course/Year level: __________________

Date: ___________________________ Semester/ School Year: ___________________
Contact Number: ___________________

MODULE 1 (The School Curriculum and the Teacher)

LESSON 2 (The Teacher as a Curriculum)

I. Desired Learning Outcomes

After going through this module, you are expected to

1. Enhance understanding of the role the teacher as a curricularist in the classroom

and school.

II. Let’s Read this

What specific role do teachers play a curricularist? Should they do these roles?
This lesson will bring all of you to an enhanced understanding and realization of the
multifaceted role of the teacher which relate to the curriculum. Let us find out!
Look at the words inside the side the box. Read each one of them. Which one
describes the teacher as a curricularist? Circle the word.

Facilitating Frustrating
Exciting Planning
Knowing

Growing Evaluating
Growing
initiating innovating

Broadening Building Rewarding Believing

III. Let’s Analyze

1.Recommending
Are you aware that teacher’sShowing
role in school is veryCopying
complex?
2. How do you describe teacher as a curricularist?
3. As a curricularist, what is the specific role or what are those roles should teacher do?
 Are you aware that the teacher’s role in school is very complex? Teachers do a series of
interrelated actions about curriculum, instruction, assessment, evaluation, teaching and learning.
A classroom teacher is involved with curriculum continuously all day. But very seldom has a
teacher been described as curricularist.
Curricularists in the past, are referred only those who developed curriculum theories.
According to the study conducted by Sandra Hayes (1991)
The most influential curricularist in America include John Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda Taba and
Franklin Bobbit. You will learn more of them in later part of the module.

IV. Let’s Add to what you know

In this lesson, we will start using the word curricularist to describe a professional who is
curriculum specialist (Hayes, 1991; Ornstein & Hunkins, 2004; Hewit, 2006). A person who is
involved in curriculum knowing, writing, planning, implementing, evaluating, innovating, and
initiating maybe designated as curricularist. A TEACHER’S role is broader and inclusive of
other functions and so a teacher is a curricularist.
So what does a TEACHER do to deserve the label as curricularists? Let us look at the
different roles of the teacher in the classroom and in the school. The classroom is the first place
of curricular engagement. The first school experience sets the tone to understand the meaning
that will lead to learning. Hence, curriculum is the heart of schooling.
Let us describe the teacher as a curricularist.
The Teacher as a curricularist . . . .
1. Knows the curriculum. Learning begins with knowing the teacher as 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
acquiring academic knowledge both formal (disciplines, logic) or informal
(derived from experiences, vicarious in unintended). It is the mastery of the
subject matter. (knower)
2. Write the curriculum. A classroom teachers takes record of knowledge
concepts, subject of matter content. this need to be written or preserved. The
teachers write books, modules, laboratory manuals, instructional guides, and
reference materials in paper or electronic media as a curriculum writer of
reviewer. (Writer)
3. Plans the curriculum. A good curriculum has to be planned. It is the role of
the teacher to take a yearly, monthly or daily plan of the curriculum, The
teachers take into consideration several factors in planning a curriculum.
These factors include the learners, the support material, time, subject matter or
content, the desires outcomes, the context of the learners among other. By
doing this, the teacher become the curriculum planner. (Planner)
4. Initiates the curriculum. In cases where the curriculum is recommended to
the school from DepEd, CHED, TESDA, UNESCO, UNISEF or other
educational agencies for improvement of quality education, the teachers is
obliged to implement. Implementation of a new curriculum requires the open
mindedness of the teacher, in the full belief that the curriculum will enhance
learning. There will be many constraints and difficulties in doing things first
or leading, however, a transformative teacher will never hesitate to try
something novel and relevant. (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 doing, blocks of time, ways of
evaluating, kinds of students and skills of teachers, one cannot find a single
eternal curriculum the would perpetually fit. A good teacher, therefore
innovates the curriculum and thus becomes a curriculum innovator.
(Innovator)
6. Implements the curriculum. The curriculum that remains recommended or
written will never serve its purpose. Somebody has to implement it. As
mentioned previously, at the hearth of schooling is the curriculum. It is this
role where the teacher becomes the curriculum implementor. An Implementor
gives life the curriculum plan. The teacher 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, facilitating skills of the teacher is
expected to the highest level, it is here where teaching as a science and an art
will be observed, it is here, where all the elements of the curriculum will come
into play. The success of a recommended, well written and planned
curriculum depends on the implementation. (implementation)
7. Evaluate the curriculum. How can one determine of the desired learning
outcomes have been achieved? Is the curriculum working? Does it bring the
desired results? What do outcomes reveal? Are the learners achieving? Are
there some practices that should be modified? Should the curriculum be
 modified, terminated or continued? These are some few questions that need
the help of a curriculum evaluator. Than person is the teacher. (Evaluator)
The seven different roles are those which a responsible teacher does in the classroom
everyday! Doing these multi-faceted work, qualifies a teacher to be a curricularists.
To be a teacher is to be a curricularists even if a teacher may not equal the likes of John
Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda Taba, or Franklin Bobbit. But as a curricularist a teacher will be
knowing, writing, implementing, innovating, initiating and evaluating the curriculum in the
school and classrooms just like the role models and advocates in curriculum development who
have shown the way.

V. Let’s apply what you have learned

Activity 1: Let’s Do a Simple Survey

Have you done a survey before? In this activity you will gather information direct
from teachers to find out what curriculum activities they involved in.
Here are the steps. Follow these.
Step 1 - Conduct survey elementary teachers secondary or high school teachers.
Step 2 - Look for at least 10 teachers coming from one or different schools and are currently
teaching either in the private or public schools.
Step 3 – With the use of the Teacher Survey Tool below, conduct the survey during your vacant
periods.
The Teacher as a Curriculum Survey Tool
Name of Teacher:
School Grade Level Assignment
No of Years Teaching: Degree Graduated:
Circle YES or NO that will correspond to your self-assessment. Then rank the items
which you answered YES. Which activity do you do most of the time? What activity do you least
of the time?

As a school teacher, Rank

1. I master the subject matter that I have to teach. ____Yes____ _____No
2. I implement what I have planned for my teaching
 3. I monitor and assets if my students are learning ____Yes____ _____No
4. I modify my activity to suit my learners in my
classroom ____Yes____ _____No
5. I lead in the implementation of a new curriculum in
my school. ____Yes____ _____No
6. I write instructional materials based on the
recommended school curriculum ____Yes____ _____No
7. I look for other ways of doing to improve teaching
and learning in my classroom. ____Yes____ _____No

____Yes____ _____No
Step 4. Consolidate the data of 10 teachers in a matrix found in the Appendix 1.
Step 5. Report the result of your survey to the whole class. Through online class.

VI. Let’s see what you have learned

I am a Teacher! Who Am I as Curricularist?
Instruction: Identify who am I Curricularist based on the case presented.
Case 1: I have a good idea on how to make my learners pay attention to the lesson. I will use the
new idea and find out if it will work Who am I curricularist?
Case 2: DepEd sent the standards, competencies and guidelines in teaching the Mother Tongue
in Grade 1 in our school. I will study and use it in the coming school year. Who am I as a
curricularist?
Case 3: there is so much to do in one school day. I seem not able to do all, but I have accomplish
something for my learners. I have made a daily activity plan to guide me. Who am I as a
curricularist?
Case 4: I need a poem to celebrate the World Teacher’s Dat. I composed one to be used in my
class in Literature. Who am I as a curricularist?
Case 5: My class is composed of learners from different home background and culture, I cannot
use a “one-size-fits all strategy” in teaching so I can respond to the diverse background. In my
readings, I discovered that there are ways of teaching. I tried one myself and it worked. Who am
I as a curricularist?
Case 6: Knowledge is limitless. What I learned in college is not enough I need to know more, so
I enrolled in the graduate school to advance my learning. Who am I as a curricularist?
Case 7: At the end of the year, my performance as a teacher is reflected in the school
performance of my students. So I need to provide a monitoring tool to measure how they are
 progressing. The result will inform me how I will address my learner’s weakness and enhance
their strengths. Who am I as a curricularist?
Case 8: I am teaching in a very far away barangay with no electricity yet. Many of the
instructional aids for teaching sent to our school are films and video tapes need power. I cannot
use them but the lessons are very important. So I thought of making an alternative activity. I look
my class to the river and waterfall instead of doing the lesson. Who am I as a curricularist?
Did you learn more from the cases?

VII. Additional Activities

Check your knowledge.

1. Define the term “curricularist” as you understand it. Make a concept web.
2. Explain the importance of curriculum in school. Prepare a checklist.
3. Think of the formal education offered at you school and list its characteristics. Illustrate
your answer through a matrix.

VIII. Let’s Reflect

Choose one from Case 1 to 8 above. Reflect on the case you have chosen and write your
reflection in the box below. Ask your classmate to read and comment on your reflection.
Both of you, discuss your answers.

Name: Case No. ______________

A. My Reflection on Case No____ (refer to cases 1 to 10 above)

B. What my partner said about my reflection:

 Name of Partner: _____________________________________

Congratulations! You have just finished the MODULE 1 LESSON 2!

I. References
Bilbao, Pumita P., Ed. D. Et. Al; 2014, Curriculum Development for Teacher.
Quezon City, Lorimos Publishing, INC.

Reyes, Emerita, Ed. Et. Al. 2015, Curriculum Development, Quezon City, Adriana
Publishing Co., Inc.

FAUSTINO M. TOBES
Contact No. 09152579217
[email protected]
FB Name: Faustino “Tenny” Tobes