Implementing The Curriculum: The Teacher As Curriculum Implementer and Manager
The document discusses the teacher's role in implementing and managing the curriculum. It states that teachers plan lessons, activities, and assessments to address student needs and interests while meeting curriculum goals. Teachers also shape the curriculum by their choices of teaching methods, materials, and modes of evaluation. The document also notes that administrators play an important role in overseeing the implementation of the curriculum and ensuring continuity and balance across grade levels.
Implementing The Curriculum: The Teacher As Curriculum Implementer and Manager
The document discusses the teacher's role in implementing and managing the curriculum. It states that teachers plan lessons, activities, and assessments to address student needs and interests while meeting curriculum goals. Teachers also shape the curriculum by their choices of teaching methods, materials, and modes of evaluation. The document also notes that administrators play an important role in overseeing the implementation of the curriculum and ensuring continuity and balance across grade levels.
Implementing the Curriculum: The teacher as Curriculum
Implementer and Manager
•The teaching and learning process, the other side of the coin is the teacher. •Planning and writing the curriculum are the primary roles of the teacher. •A teacher is a curriculum maker. He/she writes curriculum daily through a lesson plan, unit plan or yearly plan. •The teachers prepare activities for the students to do. •The teacher addresses the goals, needs, interests, of the learners by creating experiences from where the students can learn. •The teacher designs, enriches and modifies the curriculum to suit the learner’s characteristics. •As a curriculum developer, teachers are part of textbooks committees, faculty selection boards, school evaluation committee or textbook writers themselves. Views of the students about the teacher as a curriculum maker and implementer. • “Teachers are the most crucial persons in the implementation of a curriculum.” • “Teachers shape the school curriculum by sharing the experiences that they have and the resources they are capable of giving or imparting to the learners.” • Therefore, no technology can ever replace a teacher; it will only support the multifaceted role of the teacher. Thus, the complexity of teaching requires tremendous maturity, decision making in the implementation of any curricular plan as in the choice of materials, methods or strategy of teaching and modes of evaluation. Curriculum Managers and Administrators
• In school organization, there is always a
curriculum manager or school administrator. In fact, for school principals, one of their functions is being a curriculum manager. • “The school administrators play an important role in shaping the school curriculum because they are the people who are responsible in the formulation of the schools’ vision, philosophy, mission and objectives. They provide necessary leadership in evaluating teaching personnel and school program. Keeping records of curriculum and reporting learning outcomes are also the managers’ responsibilities.” • “The school administrators have the responsibility of running the entire school effectively. They have to oversee the smooth transition of the child from one grade level to another and they should see to it that the curriculum is implemented vertically or horizontally with very minimal overlaps. Instead there should be continuity, relevance, balance, so that overall curriculum will produce a well rounded person.” • Indeed the role of the administrators can never be ignored. The principle of command responsibility and institutional leadership rests on the shoulder of the school administrators.