Curriculum managers and educational experts are always looking for better learning through teaching. However, curriculum innovations seemed to be difficult for many, issues which need to be addressed. Certain aspects need to be clarified in order to overcome the attitude and feelings that create some concerns. Poor academic performance of the learners. Issues on the varied implementation of the curriculum among schools and teachers seem to be the one of the reasons for the prevailing low performance of the schools all over the country. There is perennial complaint about books and other instructional materials. Overcrowded classrooms do not provide a good learning environment. Curricular innovations lack the sense of ownership from stakeholders. Sometimes the implementers lack full understanding of the changes or modifications that they are doing. The goal is unclear, thus there are a lot of questions in the implementation as well as evaluation from concerned persons. Because of these concerns, there is little support that comes from other stakeholders. They just leave the school to do it their own thus, giving the classroom teacher the burden. Some curricular innovations are results of bandwagon but are not well supported by the managers. In desire of some schools to be part of global educational scenario, changes and innovations are drastically implemented even if the school is not ready. They just have to show that they are also keeping abreast of the development even if their equipment is insufficient. Lack of regular monitoring and evaluation. After a new curriculum has been installed, it is left unattended. Very little means is provided to find out if the implementation is running smoothly or not. When the time of implementation ends, sometime there is no evaluation aspects, thus, the innovation cannot be judged as failure or success for it to be continued or not. Innovations result to the teacher burn out. With so many new changes taking place in the curriculum, many teachers are getting burn out. They get so tired quickly and motivation is very low because they cannot cope up with rapid changes that take place. Innovations are not communicated to all. Only the managers or the opponents understand the changes. Those who are directly involved merely follow hook line and sinker. This is called regimentation.

By: Ria A. Cortez | Teacher III | Limay National High School