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Module #1 of the ProfEd4 course focuses on the essentials of curriculum, discussing its types and the teacher's role in curriculum development. It emphasizes the importance of understanding various curricula, including recommended, written, taught, supported, assessed, learned, and hidden curricula. The module also includes activities that require detailed responses and creative expression from students.

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ProfEd4 PDF 1

Module #1 of the ProfEd4 course focuses on the essentials of curriculum, discussing its types and the teacher's role in curriculum development. It emphasizes the importance of understanding various curricula, including recommended, written, taught, supported, assessed, learned, and hidden curricula. The module also includes activities that require detailed responses and creative expression from students.

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Subject: ProfEd4 (The Teacher and the School Curriculum)

Course/Block: BSED-ENG 2D & BSED – SCI 2B


Module #1
This module will focus mainly on the essentials of the curriculum. It is in this topic
that the different types of curricula will be discussed. It will give emphasis on the
importance of curriculum and curriculum development in the teacher’s room. Moreover,
module #1 describes the significant roles of the teacher as a curricularist who is the
greatest contributor in the education system.

INSTRUCTION:
1. This activity will require you to express your insights and expound your answers
hence I expect that you will give me detailed explanation of your responses.
Mere Yes or No will not be accepted.

2. Write your essays on bond papers. Observe proper margin. Handwritten. No


erasures. Copy the question and write your answer.

3. Teachers are creative. I am fond of artistic output. Please put some cute designs
on your papers. Do not buy. Just draw and color. ☺

1. Read the story “The Sabre – Tooth Curriculum” by Harold Benjamin


Based on your understanding and observation in our present educational system:
a) Does the Sabre – Tooth curriculum still exist at present? Explain.

b) Describe the kind of curriculum that exists as described in the article.

c) What does the author mean when he said ‘A curriculum should be timeless?”
Explain.

d) What is the difference between education and training?

2. Types of curricula simultaneously operating in various school:


1. Recommended Curriculum – almost all curricula found in our schools are
recommended. For Basic Education, these are recommended by the Department
of Education (DepEd), for Higher Education (CHED) and for vocational education
by TESDA. These three government agencies oversee and regulate Philippine
education. The recommendations come in the form of memoranda or policies,
standards and guidelines. Other professional organizations or international
bodies UNESCO also recommend curricula in schools.

2. Written Curriculum – this includes documents based on the recommended


curriculum. They come in the form of course of study, syllabi, modules, books or
instructional guides among others. A packet of this written curriculum is the
teacher’s lesson plan. The most recent curriculum is the K to 12 for Philippine
Basic Education.

3. Taught Curriculum – from what has been written o planned, the curriculum has
to be implemented or taught. The teacher and the learners will put life to the
written curriculum. The skill of the teacher to facilitate learning based on the
written curriculum with the aid of instructional materials and facilities will be
necessary. The taught curriculum will depend largely on the teaching style of the
teacher and the learning style of the learners.

4. Supported Curriculum – this is described as support materials that the teacher


needs to make learning and teaching meaningful. These include print materials
like books, charts, posters, worksheets, or non-print materials like power point
presentation, movies, slides, models, realias, mock-ups and other electronic
illustrations. Supported curriculum also includes facilities where learning occurs
outside or inside the four-walled building. These zoo, museum, market or the
plaza. These are the places where authentic learning through direct experiences
occur.

5. Assessed Curriculum – taught and supported curricula have to be evaluated to


find out if the teacher has succeeded or not in facilitating learning. In the process
of teaching and at the end of every lesson or teaching episode, an assessment is
made. It can either be assessment for learning, assessment as learning, or
assessment of learning. If the process is to find the progress of learning, the
assessed curriculum is for learning, but if it is to find out how much has been
learned or mastered, then it is assessment of learning. Either way, such
curriculum is the assessed curriculum.

6. Learned Curriculum – how do we know if the student has learned? We always


believe that if a student changed behavior, he/she has learned. For example,
from a non-reader to a reader or from not knowing to knowing or from being
disobedient to being obedient. The positive outcome of teaching is an indicator of
learning. These are measured by tools in assessment, which can indicate the
cognitive, affective and psychomotor outcomes. Learned curriculum will also
demonstrate higher order and critical thinking and lifelong skills.

7. Hidden/Implicit Curriculum – this curriculum is not deliberately planned, but


has great impact on the behavior of the learner. Peer influence, school
environment, media, parental pressures, societal changes, cultural practices,
natural calamities, are some factors that create the hidden curriculum. Teachers
should be sensitive and aware of his hidden curriculum. Teachers must have
good foresight to include these in the written curriculum, in order to bring to the
surface what are hidden.

Comprehension Check ✔:
a) Among the types of curricula, what do you think our educational system adopts?

b) Do you think there is an interrelationship between the mentioned curricula? Why


or Why not?

c) To teach is actually not the first task of a teacher, can you tell me the initial step a
teacher must do to achieve an interactive and effective learning environment.
Explain why did you say so?

d) Create your own comprehensive definition of “Curriculum”

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