Melvin C. Cabonegro Subject: MAED 111 (CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT) Professor: Dr. Carmelita C.

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p. 23 1. Can a school exist without a curriculum? Why or why not? In my own point of view, a school will not exist without a curriculum. We all know that a curriculum is an integrated course of academic studies that consist of listing of subjects and the total learning experiences of individuals not only in schools but in society as well. So without a curriculum, it is very difficult for a school to educate an individual if it doesnt have any guide at all. Having the curriculum, this makes a school capable of nurturing the learner holistically. 2. How does a strong belief or philosophy influence curriculum? A strong belief or philosophy influence curriculum by making it more flexible to the learners or individuals. Flexible in a way that it caters to the needs and adjusts to the capabilities of the learner. It also aligns its aims and objective on the societys needs and interest. Furthermore, philosophy suggests to the curriculum how to shape a better individual someday. 3. As future teachers, how important will a curriculum be to you? As teachers, curriculum is very important to me. This guides me in my everyday teaching and molding the learners to be a better individual. It helps me in reinforcing properly their learning outcome and evaluate aright. For me, curriculum determines my direction in teaching. 4. What are the implications of an ever changing curriculum to teachers? Curriculum is a dynamic process. It undergoes development that connotes changes which are systematic. This change to teachers means any alteration, modification or improvement of the existing curriculum. With this, teachers must be up to date and involve in the improvement of the curriculum and flexible enough to adapt on the changes and modification that entails with it.

p. 24 1. Name five persons who contributed to the field of curriculum. Give the contribution of each. a. Ralph Tyler proponent of Tylers Rationale that posited four fundamental questions or principles in examining any curriculum in schools. It also shows that in curriculum development the following consideration should be made: Purposes of the school, Educational experiences related to the purposes, Organization of the experiences, and Evaluation of the experiences. b. Hilda Taba advocated the grassroots approach who believed that teachers who teach or implement the curriculum should participate in developing it. c. Franklin Bobbit presented curriculum as a science that emphasizes on students needs. To him, objectives with corresponding activities should be grouped and sequenced. d. William Kilpatrick to him, a curricula are purposeful activities which are childcentered for its growth and development and curriculum should develop social relationships and small group instruction.

e. Hollis Caswell he sees curriculum as organized around social functions, themes, organized knowledge and learners interest. He also believes that curriculum is a set of experiences. 2. How do philosophy, psychology, history, and society influence the development of a curriculum? Philosophy influences the curriculum by providing a basis for teaching and learning process. It inculcates that the learner are not machines and it has mind not like a computer that is affected by biology and cultures. With this, curriculum makers will be guided in nurturing more advanced more comprehensive and complete human learning. With history, development shows the different changes in the purpose, principles and content of curriculum. This only implies that curriculum is ever changing putting in knowledge and content from many fields of disciplines. For society, the curricula should reflect and preserve the culture of society and its aspirations. At the same time society should also imbibe the changes brought about by the formal institutions. 3. Explain how the three processes of planning, implementing and evaluating are used in curriculum development? In curriculum development, planning is used to prepare the learning content and the meaningful experiences that the learner will undergo through under the curriculum. After carefully planned, implementing is used to carry out the curriculum and its necessary experiences that the learner must go through and feel. Evaluating is now used to examine the effectiveness of the learning experiences that the learners go through by different evaluate instruments.