Scribd
Upload
1K views3 pages

The Teacher As A Curricularist: Lesson 1.2

1. The document discusses the role of teachers as curricularists in the classroom and school. It describes teachers as playing seven key roles related to curriculum - as a knower, writer, planner, initiator, innovator, implementor, and evaluator of curriculum. 2. As curricularists, teachers know the curriculum content, write curriculum materials, plan curriculum implementation, initiate new curricula, innovate curriculum approaches, implement curriculum lessons, and evaluate curriculum effectiveness. 3. Performing these multifaceted curriculum-related roles qualifies teachers as curricularists, even if they do not develop curriculum theories like influential figures John Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda

Uploaded by

Liza Maramag
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
1K views3 pages

The Teacher As A Curricularist: Lesson 1.2

1. The document discusses the role of teachers as curricularists in the classroom and school. It describes teachers as playing seven key roles related to curriculum - as a knower, writer, planner, initiator, innovator, implementor, and evaluator of curriculum. 2. As curricularists, teachers know the curriculum content, write curriculum materials, plan curriculum implementation, initiate new curricula, innovate curriculum approaches, implement curriculum lessons, and evaluate curriculum effectiveness. 3. Performing these multifaceted curriculum-related roles qualifies teachers as curricularists, even if they do not develop curriculum theories like influential figures John Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda

Uploaded by

Liza Maramag
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Lesson 1.2.

The Teacher as a Curricularist

Desired Learning Outcome

 Enhance understanding of the role of the teacher as a curricularist in the classroom and
school

Take Off

What specific roles do teachers play as a curricularist? Should they do these roles?
This lesson will bring all of you to an enhanced understanding and realization of the multifaceted
roles of the teacher which relate to the curriculum. Let us find out!

Look at the words inside the box. Read each one of them. Which one describes the
teacher as a curricularist? Circle the word.

Facilitating Planning Frustrating


Exciting
Knowing

Growing Growing Evaluating


Initiating Innovating

Broadening Building Rewarding Believing

Recommending Showing Copying

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 involved with curriculum continuously all day. But very seldom has a
teacher been described as curricularist.

Curricularists in the past, are referred only to those who developed curriculum theories.
According to the study conducted by Sandra Hayes (1991) the most influential curricularist in
America includes John Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda Taba and Franklin Bobbit. You will learn
more of them in the later part of the module.
Content Focus

In this lesson, we will start using the word curricularist to describe 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 may be 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 curricularist? 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 of
schooling through the interactions of learners and teachers that will lead to learning. Hence,
curriculum is at 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 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 acquiring academic knowledge
both formal (disciplines, logic) or informal (derived from experiences, vicarious, and
unintended). It is the 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 as a curriculum writer or reviewer. (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. This will serve as a guide in
the implementation of the curriculum. The teacher takes into consideration several factors
in planning a curriculum. These factors include the learners, the support material, time,
subject matter or content, the desired outcomes, the context of the learners among others.
By doing this, the teacher becomes a curriculum planner. (PLANNER)
4. Initiates the 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 oblige to implement it. Implementation
of a new curriculum requires the open mindedness of the teacher, and 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 hallmarks of an excellent teacher.
A curriculum dynamic, hence it keeps on changing. From the content, strategies, ways of
doing, blocks of time, ways of evaluate kinds of students and skills of teachers, one
cannot find a single eternal curriculum that 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
heart of schooling is the curriculum. It is this role where the teacher becomes the
curriculum implementor. An implementor gives life to the curriculum plan. The teacher is
at the height of an engagement with the learners support materials in order to achieve the
desired outcome. It is where teaching, guiding, facilitating skills of teacher are expected
to the highest level. It is here where teaching as a science and as an art will be observed.
It is here, where all the elements of the curriculum wil1 come into play. The success of a
recommended, well written and planned curriculum depends on the implementation.
(IMPLEMENTOR)
7. Evaluates the curriculum. How can one determine if 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. That person is the teacher.
(EVALUATOR)

The seven different roles are those which a responsible teacher does in the classroom
everyday! Doing these multi-faceted works qualifies a teacher to be a curricularist.

To be a teacher is to be a curricularist even if a teacher may not equal the likes of John
Dewey, Ralph Tyler, Hilda Taba, or Franklin Bobbit. 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 and curriculum
development who have shown the way.

You might also like