Curriculum Development Course Orientation

Course Orientation Objectives

• Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of course learning outcomes, content, class management, and requirements.
• Students will express a commitment to and follow clear guidelines on how to study the course.

Course Description

• The course examines fundamental research-based curriculum and curriculum development concepts and principles.
• The course aims to equip prospective teachers with the necessary skills to be curricularists.
• The teacher's active role in planning developmentally-sequenced teaching-learning is emphasized.
• Identifies constructively-aligned learning outcomes and competencies
• Emphasizes contextualizing, localizing, and indigenizing curricula.
• Covers implementing relevant and responsive learning programs.
• Curriculum evaluation is included in the course.
• The teacher's individual, collegial, and collaborative roles in managing school curriculum change within various contexts are highlighted.
• Curricular reforms and requirements are also emphasized

Program Outcomes

• Articulate the rootedness of education in philosophical, socio-cultural, historical, psychological, and political contexts.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject matter/discipline.
• Practice professional and ethical teaching standards sensitive to the changing local, national, and global realities.
• Pursue life-long learning for personal and professional growth through varied experiential and field-based opportunities.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate research-based knowledge of curriculum concepts, theories, and principles within and/or across curriculum teaching areas.
• Demonstrate skills in designing and developing constructively-aligned and developmentally-sequenced learning programs, experiences, and instructional processes consistent with curricular needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge in implementing contextualized learning programs and/or instructional plans that are relevant and responsive to the needs of diverse learners.
• Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies inclusive of learners from indigenous groups.
• Demonstrate skills in selecting and using appropriate tools for monitoring, critiquing, and assessing instructional plans, seeking advice for enriching teaching practice

Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST) - Career Stage 1 Beginning Teachers Strands (BT1s)

• Demonstrate content knowledge and its application within and/or across curriculum teaching areas.
• Demonstrate an understanding of research-based knowledge and principles of teaching and learning.
• Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies inclusive of learners from indigenous groups.
• Prepare developmentally sequenced teaching and learning processes to meet curriculum requirements.

Additional Learning Outcomes (Page 8)

• Identify learning outcomes that are aligned with learning competencies.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the implementation of relevant and responsive learning programs.
• Seek advice concerning strategies that can enrich teaching practice.
• Show skills in the selection, development and use of a variety of teaching and learning resources, including ICT, to address learning goals.

Course Content - Chapters

• Chapter 1: Curriculum Essentials (Teacher and School Curriculum, The Teacher as Curricularist, School Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foundations of Curriculum)
• Chapter 2: Designing the Curriculum (Teacher as Curriculum Designer, Fundamentals of Curriculum Design, Curriculum Mapping, Curriculum Quality)
• Chapter 3: Implementing the Curriculum (Teacher as Curriculum Implementor and Manager, Implementing Designed Curriculum, Implementing Curriculum Daily, Role of Technology, Stakeholders)
• Chapter 4: Evaluating the Curriculum (Evaluation and the Teacher, What, Why, How to Evaluate a Curriculum, Learning Assessments, Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Connections)
• Chapter 5: Curriculum Development Reforms and Enhancement (Curriculum Reforms, Basic Education, Teacher Education, Outcome-Based Education, 21st Century Curriculum Landscape, Education 4.0, Post-Pandemic Curricular Modification, Higher Education, Teacher Education)

Course Requirements

• Quizzes
• Recitation/Discussion/Participation
• Assignments/Worksheets
• Individual & Creative Group Tasks
• Project
• Written Examination

Textbook

• The Teacher and the School Curriculum (OBE & PPST-Based)