Republic of the Philippines

Mountain Province State Polytechnic

College Bontoc, Mountain Province

LESSON 1: Elements/Components of a Curriculum

PRE-TEST
1. Which holds true when each level of subject matter is smoothly connected
to the next level and glaring gaps, wasteful overlaps in subject matter are
avoided?
a. The curriculum must be sequenced.
b. The curriculum must be articulated.
c. The curriculum must be integrated.
d. The curriculum must be continued.
2. When a school applies the systems approach to curriculum planning, what
is expected?
a. Only the internal stakeholders are consulted for curriculum
planning purposes.
b. The parts of the school system are considered in terms of how
they relate to each other.
c. The school's external environment is not taken into
consideration.
d. Curriculum, instruction and evaluation are the only things that
matter in curriculum planning.

3. When one wants children to develop positive attitude toward life and life
problems, which approach in curriculum planning is most appropriate?
a. Problem-centered c. Systems approach
approach d. Child-centered approach
b. Humanistic approach
4. A barangay official suggested that fishing and marine life be included in
the barangay public school so that learners will have a background on the
primary livelihood in their area. This is based on what curriculum design
model?
a. subject-centered
b. career-centered
c. Problem-centered
d. learner-centered
5. Which type of curriculum guides the child toward maturity within the
context of a social group?
a. Experience Curriculum
b. Subject-Centered Curriculum
c. Child-Centered Curriculum
d. Problem-Centered Curriculum
6. Schools divide the school hours to different subjects such as reading,
grammar, literature, math, history, and geography. What curriculum
design is described?
a. Culture-based c. Subject-centered
b. Problem-centered d. Learner-centered
7. Teacher Iah, as a Biology teacher tries to enrich the content of her lesson
by identifying related concepts in Math. What curriculum pattern did
Teacher Iah consider?
 a. Separate subject c. Correlated
b. Core d. Broadfield
8. Which type of curriculum design serves as a response to society’s
demand for integration of knowledge and enables the learner to see
relationship among various aspects?
a. Broadfield c. Core
b. Correlated d. Separated
9. The Kalayaan Elementary School uses a curriculum design that recognizes
the ability levels of its pupils. Thus, the contents of each subject areas
taught across grade levels are so organized that the simplest concepts
are taken up in the early grades and the more difficult ones, in the higher
levels. This shows a widening and deepening sequence of similar
concepts taught through the elementary levels. Which curriculum design
is this?
a. Correlated c. Spiral
b. Broad-fields d. Core
10. Which of the following refers to an individual or group of individuals
who have a direct and indirect impact on curriculum development?
a. Stockholders c. Stakeholders
b. Promoters d. Incorporators
11. Do parents have a role in curriculum implementation and
instruction?
a. No, they have no formal training in pedagogy.
b. Yes, they may provide insights on the curriculum.
c. Yes, but only in helping their children with school work.
d. It depends on a school's private or public status.
12. This concept includes the sub-processes of curriculum planning,
organization, implementation, and evaluation. What concept is this?
a. Curriculum and management
b. Curriculum assessment
c. Curriculum and instruction
d. Curriculum development
13. In analyzing the curriculum, the teacher should consider which of
the following?
I. Vision, mission, goals and core values of the school
II. Learning resources and faculties of the school
III. Needs and interests of the learners
a. I, II and III c. II only
b. I only d. III only
14. Which curriculum development phase focuses on alteration of a
curriculum's basic structure and design?
a. Curriculum implementation
b. Curriculum evaluation
c. Curriculum improvement
d. Curriculum change
15. Which curriculum development phase focuses on alteration of a
curriculum's basic structure and design?
a. Curriculum implementation
b. Curriculum evaluation

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 c. Curriculum improvement
d. Curriculum change
16. What refers to the matching between the curriculum and
assessment to be used for the learners?
a. Auditing d. Principal's evaluation of
b. Alignment teachers
c. Delivery 20. School curricula
d. Articulation reflects the world's economic
and political integration and
17. Which of the following industrialization.
processes usually comes What does this point in
first in developing curriculum development?
curriculum?
a. Selection of
educational content a. The shift in the
b. Organization of paradigm of curriculum
learning experiences development from a
c. Evaluating learning process-oriented to a
experiences product-oriented one.
d. Identifying goals and b. The trend toward the
objectives globalization and
18. Which of the following localization.
is the reason of the c. The trend towards the
continuous appraisal of the classical approach to
existing curriculum at all curriculum
levels? development.
a. New national policies of d. The trend toward
the government participatory
b. Changing needs and curriculum
conditions of the development.
society
c. Economic status of the
people
d. Political thrust of the
country

19. Which of the following

school activities is closely
related and has greater
impact to curriculum
development?
a. Review of the
textbooks and
reference material
b. Monthly meeting with
the barangay officials
c. School visit of visitors
from other places

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 IT’S YOUR
TURN

Now that we have introduced to

you the elements of the curriculum,
please do the following:
1. The figure below shows the
interrelationship of the
elements of the curriculum
which we discussed. Fill in the
blank figures to complete it as
a concept map.

2. Why do you need to

understand the different
elements of the curriculum?

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LESSON 2: Overview of the Curriculum Development Process

Remember in the previous lesson, we said that a lesson plan is the simplest
kind of curriculum? Now, what do you think are the processes being
undertaken by a teacher to prepare his/her lesson plan? If you don’t have
any idea, ask a teacher and list down the processes here.
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FLOW CHART OF THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Label the figure below with the processes of curriculum development.
Beside each figure, give an example of what the teacher is going to do in
preparing his/her lesson plan.

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LESSON 3: Curriculum Planning

LET’S ENGAGE
In life, we don’t do something at the spur of the moment if we want to
succeed in whatever we are going to do. For example, I would like to earn
money. What should I do? Shall I just go to the market and sell face masks?
Or if I would like to build a house, should I not make a plan first? It is very
important that in doing something, you should always have a plan. However,
not everyone knows how to make one.
Now, if a friend of yours plans to enter into a business, what would you
advise him/her to do? List them down.
1.
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10.

IT’S YOUR TURN

We now start to work on our curriculum, in this case, a lesson plan. For
this lesson, I am going to ask you to prepare the learning outcomes of a topic
which you are going to prepare a lesson plan for. In preparing your learning
outcomes, you need to look at the competencies required.
1. What topic will I work on? Choose a topic based on your program.
If you are BEED, you have a lot of options of topics from
grades 1 to 6. If you are taking up BSED, choose a topic in your
field of specialization from grades 7 to 12. If you are taking up
BECED, choose a topic from kindergarten.
2. Where will I get those topics? Research on the curriculum guide as
found in the K-12 curriculum.

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 3. Where can I get the learning competencies of my topic/lesson? This
can be found in the K-12 curriculum guide for a particular
subject in a particular grade.
4. What are learning outcomes? Learning outcomes are what you as
the teacher intends the learner to be able to do after your
lesson. Remember the domains of educational objectives when
you prepare your learning outcomes: cognitive (what they
should know), psychomotor (what they can do), and affective
(how they should feel).

LESSON 4: Curriculum Design and Organization

IT’S YOUR TURN

Prepare a set of Developmentally-Sequenced Lesson Plans.
1. What exactly am I going to do? You are to prepare a set of
developmentally-sequenced lesson plan.
2. What is a set of developmentally-sequenced lesson plans? These are
set of lesson plans based on the K-12 guide.
3. Will I just choose any topic? No, remember the learning outcomes
that you did in the previous lesson? The topic/chapter you are
going to work on for this activity will be based on the learning
outcomes that you prepared previously.
4. How many lesson plans will I prepare? You are going to prepare
lesson plans developmentally-sequenced based on the chapter
that you have chosen. The number of lesson plans you will
prepare will depend on the length of the chapter you have
taken. You can also refer to the K-12 curriculum guide for that
particular subject and chapter.
This activity will form part of your performance task in this module;
thus, it will be submitted during the post assessment activity. This activity
will be rated based on a rubric to be prepared by the instructor in-charge.

LESSON 5: Curriculum Implementation

IT’S YOUR TURN

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Research on the Implementation of the K-12 curriculum in your
area. Examine how the curriculum is being implemented in your area and
discuss the roles each of the key players play. The key players in curriculum
evaluation is shown in the figure above.

LESSON 6: Curriculum Evaluation

IT’S YOUR TURN

Research work. Prior to the implementation of the K-12 curriculum,

the Philippine government contracted the services of SEAMEO INNOTECH to
evaluate the basic education curriculum being implemented. Research on
the results of the study on the curriculum evaluation which paved the way
for the K-12 curriculum.
Write down the results of your research as this will be submitted to the
instructor at the end of this module.

LESSON 7: Curriculum Improvement/Change

IT’S YOUR TURN

Reflection paper: What changes do you think should be made to improve
the BSED or BEED curriculum of MPSPC? You can interview the faculty
members or the third or fourth year students or graduates of the program for
your reflection paper.

POST ASSESSMENT
Unit Test to assess the students’ content knowledge on curriculum
planning, design, organization, evaluation and improvement will be given
separately.
Some activities given will be considered as performance tasks and
outputs need to be submitted for checking. Rubrics will be prepared by the
instructor to be used in checking the activities. The following activities will
have to be submitted:
1. Set of developmentally sequenced lesson plans

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2. Research paper on the results on the SEAMEO INNOTECH study
on the curriculum evaluation of the Basic Education Curriculum
3. Reflection paper on needed changes in the educational
curriculum of MPSPC