In order to create a strong curriculum, teachers must play an integral role in every step of the process. He must be well in planning, Creation, Implementation  and Reflection. But how this help inyour teaching career everyday ? Well…

Planning – Teachers know their students’ needs better than others involved in the curriculum process. While the department prepare  the skills covered by the curriculum, a teacher can provide insight into the types of materials, activities and specific skills that need to be included. A good planning is looking what is best for your students. The output will it make.

Creation – Because teachers must use the curriculum, they should have input in its creation. A teacher can gauge whether an activity will fit into a specified time frame and whether it will engage students. If multiple teachers will use the curriculum, allow as many of them as possible to provide input during the creation stage. It must be based on the needs and weaknesses of your students. On how they will adopt it.

Implementation- Teachers must implement the curriculum in their own classrooms, sticking to the plan that has taken so much time, careful planning and effort to create. When a teacher fails to properly implement a strong curriculum, she risks not covering standards or failing to implement effective practices in the classroom Teacher must be the jack of all trades , can accept changes , therefore must simplify the curriculum according to the needs of his students.

Reflection – Reflecting on a curriculum allows teachers and others involved in the process to find any weaknesses in the curriculum and attempt to make it better. Teachers reflect on curriculum in multiple ways, such as keeping a journal as they implement the curriculum, giving students surveys and reviewing the results or analyzing assessment data and individual student performance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By: Arnel O. Larman | Teacher III | Pablo Roman National High School | Pilar, Bataan