Instructional Planning

Detailed Lesson Plan (DLP) Format

1. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson the students are expected to:
 select the best approach in curriculum designing which
corresponds to the situation in a classroom setting;
 identify some curriculum design and approaches to the
design;
 perform a short roleplay using one of the approaches in
curriculum designing; and
 reflect on the best practices to consider throughout the
curriculum design process.
2. CONTENT Approaches in Curriculum Designing
3. LEARNING RESOURCES Bilbao et al., (2020). The Teacher And The School Curriculum.
Lorimar Publishing Inc., p. 54-61., Visual Aids, Powerpoint
Presentation,
4. PROCEDURE

4.1 Introductory Activity (1) Prayer

(5 minutes) (2) Greetings
(3) Classroom Management
(4) Checking of Attendance
(5) Review

Motivation

Guess My Name?
The teacher will present an anagram showing different
photos relating to the topic Approaches in Curriculum
Designing. The teacher will ask the following questions:

What have you observed in the activity?

Do you relate to the photos shown?
Have you experienced those things?
 ANSWERS:
1. SUBJECTS
2. TEACHER
3. STUDENTS
4. PROBLEM
“Are you ready for another activity?”

4.2 Activity What Am I?

(5 minutes)
The teacher will group the class into four(4). The students will be
grouped for an activity called “What Am I?” wherein students have
to guess the BEST answer that corresponds to the situation
provided. Choices are provided.
As the game commence, every group must choose one
representative to state their answer but before that, the group
must make sure to shout the phrase “I CAN, WE CAN”. The first
group to say it first have the first chance to answer.

Directions: Choose the BEST answer to the situation shown in every

number. Choose your answer from the box.

Student-centered Problem-centered Teacher-centered

Subject-centered

Answer: Teacher-centered
Answer: Subject-centered
 Answer: Student-centered
Answer: Problem-centered

4.3 Analysis From the given activity, the teacher will question one student from
5 minutes each group to explain why and how they selected those answers.
Afterwards, the teacher will ask the following questions:

What have you observed in the activity?

Do you have any idea of what the topic for today is?
When you hear the word Teacher and Student what comes to your
mind?
What about the word Subject and Problem?

“Do you know what my dear students, when we talk about teacher-
centered, student-centered, subject-centered and problem-
centered we are referring to the different types of approaches in
curriculum designing.”

4.4 Abstraction The teacher will discuss the topic Approaches in Curriculum
10 minutes Designing.

What is a Curriculum? What are the different types of Approaches

in Curriculum Designing?

Topic Discussion:
Types of Curriculum Design Models

1. Subject-centered Curriculum Design

Examples of Subject-centered Curriculum design:

a. Subject design
• Oldest and so far the most familiar design for teachers, parents
and other laymen
• Easy to deliver
• Sometimes learning is so compartmentalized
• Revolves around a particular subject matter or discipline.
• Also called as Traditional Designs
• Corresponds mostly to the textbooks written for the specified
subject

b. Discipline Design
• Focuses on the academic discipline
• Often used in college but not in elementary and secondary levels.

c. Correlation Design
• Comes from a core, correlated curriculum design that links
separate subjects design in order to reduce fragmentation.
• Subjects are related to one another, but each subject maintain its
identity.

d. Broad Field Design

• A variation of the subject-centered design
• Made to prevent compartmentalization of subjects and integrate
the contents that are related to each other.

2. Learner-centered Curriculum Design

• Based on the needs and interests of the
learners
• Teachers acknowledges students are
unique thus, instructional plans are
differentiated.
• The 3R’s are integrated into coursework

Examples of Learner-centered Curriculum Design:

a. Child-centered Design
• (John Dewey, Rouseau Pestallozi and Froebel)
• Learner is not considered as passive individual but as one who
engages with his/her environment.

b. Experience-centered Design
• Learners are empowered to shape their own learning from
different opportunities given by the teacher.
• Learners are made to choose from various activities that the
teacher provides.

c. Humanistic Design
• Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers Maslow
• The development of self is the ultimate objective of learning. It
stresses the whole person and the integration of thinking, feeling
and doing.

3. Problem-centered Curriculum Design

Examples of Problem-centered Curriculum Design:

a. Life situations Designs

• Uses past and present experiences of learners as a means to
analyze the basic areas of living.
• Based on Spencer Herbert’s curriculum writing, his emphases
were activities that sustain life, enhance life and in rearing
children, maintain the individual’s social and political reasons
and enhance leisure, tasks and feelings

b. Core Designs
• It centers on general education and the problems are based on
common human activities.
• The central focus of the core design includes common needs,
problems and concerns of the learners.
• Focus on teaching student’s problemsolving skills
• Students are exposed to real-life issues
that will help them develop skills that
are transferrable to the real world.
• It allows students to be creative and
innovative as they are learning.

 Approaches to Curriculum Design Models

How will a particular design be approached by the teacher? After
writing acurriculum based on the specific design, let us see how a
teacher will approachthis. We will find out the utilization of the
example design.

Child Learner-Centered Approach. This approach to curriculum

design is based on the underlying philosophy that the child or the
learner is the center of the educational process. It means that the
curriculum is constructed based on the needs, interest, purposes
and abilities of the learners. The curriculum is also built upon the
learners’ knowledge, skills, previous learnings and potentials.
From its design, how should a child-centered curriculum be
approached? Let us consider these principles.

Principles of Child-Centered Curriculum Approach

1. Acknowledge and respect the fundamental rights of the child.
2. Make all activities revolve around the overall development of the
learner.
3. Consider the uniqueness of every learner in a multicultural
classroom.
4. Consider using differentiated instruction or teaching
5. Provide a motivating supportive learning environment for all the
learners.
Subject- Centered Approach. This is anchored on a curriculum
design which prescribes separate distinct subjects for every
educational level: basic education, higher education or vocational-
technical education. This approach considers the following
principles:
1. The primary focus is the subject matter.
2. The emphasis is on bits and pieces of information which may
detached from life.
3. The subject matter serves as a means of identifying problems of
living.
4. Learning means accumulation of content, or knowledge

Problem-Centered Approach. This approach is based on a design

which assumes that in the process of living, children experiences
problems. Thus, problem solving enables the learners to become
increasingly able to achieve complete or total development as
 individuals. This approach is characterized by the following views
and beliefs:
1. The learners are capable of directing and guiding themselves in
solving problems, thus developing every learner to be independent.
2. The learners are prepared to assume civic responsibilities through
direct participation in different activities.
3. The curriculum leads the learners in recognition of concerns and
problems in seeking solutions. Learners are problem solvers
themselves.
4.5 Application Play Me Well!
5 minutes
The teacher will group the class into three. Each group will be given
an assigned task for them to finish. The assigned task will be written
in a strip of paper containing the Approaches to Curriculum Design
Models namely: Child-Learner Centered Approach; Subject-
Centered Approach; and Problem-Centered Approach. So, the
students will perform a short act in relevance to their assigned task.
Criteria for the activity will be shortly announced.

CRITERIA RATE
RELEVANCE 5 points
TEAMWORK 5 Points
ORGANIZATION 5 points
Total= 15 points

4.6 Assessment After the discussion, the teacher will ask questions regarding the
5 minutes topic that was discussed. This will serve as an oral recitation and will
be graded.
Sample Questions:
Differentiate Learner-centered approach from subject-centered
approach.
What is problem-centered approach?
4.7 Evaluation Test I. Identification
5 minutes Instruction: Read the questions carefully and choose the correct
answer inside the box then, write the letter of the correct answer
on the space provided before the number.
A. Learner-centered approach
B. Subject-centered approach
C. Problem-centered approach
D. Subject-centered curriculum design
E. Learner-centered curriculum design
F. Problem-centered curriculum design
G. Core design
H. Experience-centered design
I. Humanistic design
J. Correlation design

1. This approach is based on a design which assumes that in

the process of living, children experiences problems.
Ans. C
2. This is anchored on a curriculum design which prescribes
 separate distinct subjects for every educational level: basic
education, higher education or vocational-technical
education.
Ans. B
3. This approach to curriculum design is based on the
underlying philosophy that the child or the learner is the
center of the educational process.
Ans. A
4. It centers on general education and the problems are
based on common human activities.
Ans. G
5. The development of self is the ultimate objective of
learning. It stresses the whole person and the integration of
thinking, feeling and doing.
Ans. I
6. Comes from a core, correlated curriculum design that links
separate subjects design in order to reduce fragmentation.
Subjects are related to one another, but each subject
maintain its identity.
Ans. J
7. This is a curriculum design that focuses on the content of
the curriculum. Most of the schools using this kind of
structure and curriculum design aim for excellence in the
specific subject discipline content.
Ans. D
8. Among progressive educational psychologists, the learner is
the center of the educative process.
Ans. E
9. In this curriculum, content cuts across subject boundaries
and must be based on the needs, concerns and abilities of
the students.
Ans. F
10. Experiences of the learners become the starting point of the
curriculum, thus the school environment is left open and
free. Learners are made to choose from various activities
that the teacher provides.
Ans. H

Test II. Essay(10 pts.)

Instruction: Explain the importrance of understanding the different
approaches to a curriculum design model.
CRITERIA RATE
CONTENT 5 points
ORGANIZATION 3 points
GRAMMAR 2 points
Total= 10 pts.
5. ASSIGNMENT Prepare for Tomorrow!
Instruction: Research or study in advance the ………..for our next
topic.
Prepared by: Riza Gallardo

To: Ma’am Rubylyn Enero