Module 1 – The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Lesson 2 - The Teacher
as a Curricularist
Prepared by
Ms Jinky R. Caganon
Desired Learning Outcome
 Enhance the understanding of the role of the teacher
as a Curricularist in the classroom and school
CURRICULARIST
A professional who is a curriculum specialist
(Hayes, 1991; Ornstein & Hunkins, 2004; Hewitt, 2006)
A person who is involved in curriculum knowing, writing,
planning, implementing, evaluating, innovating, and
initiating
Read the words inside the box. Which one describes the teacher as a
curricularist?
Facilitating
Knowing
exciting
Growing
initiating
frustrating
evaluating
innovating
growing
building
believing
planning
recommending
broadening
rewarding
showing
copying
Complex roles of a teacher
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A teacher’s role is broader and inclusive of other functions.
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Curricularist
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What does a TEACHER do to deserve the
label Curricularist?
Roles of the teacher as a Curricularist
1. KNOWER (Knows the
curriculum)
 The teacher as a learner starts
with knowing about the
curriculum, the subject matter, or
the content.
 A teacher has to master what
are included in the curriculum
 It is acquiring academic
knowledge about formal
(disciplines, logic) or informal
(derived from experiences,
unintended).
FORMAL
INFORMAL
 Studying further like
pursuing graduate degrees
like Master’s degree, PhD,
etc.
 Attending seminars or
workshops
 Planned education of
different subjects having a
proper syllabus acquired
by attending the institution.
 Can be firsthand, vicarious
or unintended
 Firsthand: When you’re
trying to study on your
own like your hobby
 Vicarious: when someone
attended a seminar and
talks to you about what
she learned
 Unintended: browsing the
internet but acquired a
useful knowledge by
chance
“Being a knower of a curriculum means
having mastery of the subject matter.”
FOR EXAMPLE:
Teacher Alaine attended many
seminar and webinars to gain
further knowledge on how to teach
effectively in the new normal online
learning.
She also wanted to advance her
studies and so she enrolled in a
university where she will get her
doctoral degree.
2. WRITER (Writes the curriculum)
 A classroom teacher takes
record of knowledge concepts,
subject matter or content which
need to be written or
preserved.
 The teacher writes books,
modules, laboratory manuals,
instructional guides, and
reference materials in paper
or electronic media.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Teacher Cora
diligently makes her
own modules for her
grade 3 learners.
During checking the
answered modules, if
some learners get a
low score, Teacher
Cora will then make
another reference
material easily
understand by the
learner.
3. PLANNER (Plans the curriculum)
The teacher as a planner of the curriculum analyzes
philosophical basis, psychological explanations,
historical developments, and societal demands and
influences, and how each should be integrated in the
teaching – learning process.
3. PLANNER (Plans the curriculum)
 The teacher makes a yearly,
monthly, or daily plan o the
curriculum that will serve as a
guide in the implementation o
the curriculum
 The teacher takes into
consideration several factors in
planning a curriculum: the
learners, the support material,
time, subject matter or content,
the desired outcomes, the
context of the learners among
others.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Teacher Linda makes her
own organized time schedule
with the designated subjects
before the school starts.
In her every lesson, she plans
the learning goals and
outcomes for her learners.
She also develops a devise
for her learners that show a
low performance
4.INITIATOR (Initiates the curriculum)
The curriculum is recommended to the schools by
regulatory agencies
4.INITIATOR (Initiates the curriculum)
the teacher is obliged
to implement the
recommended
curriculum for the first
time
Implementation of a
new curriculum
requires the open
mindedness of the
teacher, and the full
belief that the
curriculum will
enhance learning
4.INITIATOR (Initiates the curriculum)
“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.”
FOR EXAMPLE:
In Grade 7 to Grade 10 of
the K to 12 Enhanced
Curriculum, Science as a
subject is presented, taught
and learned in a spiral
manner.
To address the mode of
learning delivery Teacher
Matthew initiated to request
their school principal that
they have a team teaching.
5. INNOVATOR (Innovates the curriculum)
 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.
“Creativity and innovation are hallmarks of
an excellent teacher.”
“A good teacher, therefore, innovates the
curriculum.”
FOR EXAMPLE:
Teacher Paul, a Grade 6 P.E. teacher made his student pass a
Tiktok video of their chosen physical activity (dancing, sports,
games, other recreational activities) as their alternative assessment
in the new normal learning.
6. IMPLEMENTOR (Implementor the curriculum)
An implementor gives life
to the curriculum plan
It is here where teaching
as a science and an art
will be observed, all the
elements of the curriculum
will come into play
“The success of a recommended, well-written
and planned curriculum depends on the
implementation.”
FOR EXAMPLE:
Teacher Alfred has
studied the standards,
competencies and
guidelines from DepEd
in teaching Mother
Tongue to his Grade 1
learners and he
implements these in his
class.
7. EVALUATOR (Evaluates the curriculum)
Determines if:
the desired learning outcomes have been achieved
the curriculum is working and brings out desired
results
the outcomes reveal anything
the learners are achieving
there are practices that needs to be modified,
terminated, or continued
To be a teacher is to be a Curricularist.
John Dewey
Ralph Tyler
Hilda Taba
Most influential Curricularist
in America
Franklin Bobbitt
Knower
Writer
Planning
TEACHER
as a
CURRICULARIST
Implementor
Evaluating
Innitiating
Innovating
Who am I as a Curricularist?
Based on the cases presented, identify yourself as
a Curricularist.
1. There is so much to do in one school day. I seem
not able to do all, but I have to accomplish
something for my learners. I have made a daily
activity plan to guide me.
planner
_______________
2. I need a poem to celebrate the World Teachers’
Day. I composed one to be used in my class in
Literature.
writer
_______________
3. 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.
knower
_______________
4. At the end of the year, my performance as a
teacher is reflected in the school performance of the
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 learners’ weakness
and enhance their strengths.
evaluator
_______________
5. I am teaching in a very far way barangay with
no electricity yet. Many of the instructional aids for
teaching sent to our school are films and video
tapes which need power. I cannot use them, but the
lessons are very important. So I thought of making
an alternative activity. I took my class to the river
and waterfall instead of doing the lesson.
innovator
_______________
Thank you
for
listening!