A.

Discuss the Sabre – tooth Curriculum and Answer the following:

1. Does the sabre – tooth curriculum still exist at present?
Give examples of your evidence.

2. Describe the kind of Curriculum that exists as described in the article.

3. What does the author mean, when he said “A curriculum should be timeless?”
Explain.
4. What is the difference between education and training.
B. Spin a Win: Agree or Disagree
Read each statement and decide whether you Agree or Disagree.
Write your answer before each number.

_______1.In the Saber Tooth Curriculum, learning is experiential and authentic.

_______2.It is a reality that there exist more than one curricula in the teacher’s classroom.

_______3.A teacher can say with confidence that learning has occurred if the curriculum has
been assessed.

_______4.Some curricula in the school/classrooms are unwritten.

_______5. To establish national standards, teachers should be guided by recommended

curriculum in basic and higher education.

_______6.Teachers should expect that the school curricula are dynamic and changing.

_______7.Evaluated curriculum makes judgment about learning.

_______8.Textbooks and modules are written curricula that represent the recommended
curricula.

_______9. Only the Department of Education can recommend a curriculum.

______10. In the heart of all the types of curricula, the teacher has a major role.
 I am a Teacher! Who Am I as a Curricularist?

Instructions: Identify on the blanks provided who am I as a Curricularist based on the cases presented.

Case I.I have a good idea on how to make my learners pay attention to the lesson. I will use the new
idea and find out if it will work.___________________

Case 2.DepEd sent the standards, competencies and guidelines in teaching the Mother Tongue in Grade I
in our school. I will study and use it in the coming school year. ___________________

Case 3. There is so much to do in one school day. I seem not able to to do all , but I have to accomplish
something for my learners. I have made a daily activity plan to guide me.______________________

Case 4. I need a poem to celebrate the World Teachers’ day. I composed one to be used in my class in
literature. _______________________

Case 5. My class is composed of learners from different home background and culture. I cannot use a
“one – size – fits all strategy” in teaching so I can respond to the diverse background. In my readings, I
discovered that there are ways of teaching. I tried one myself and it worked. ______________________

Case 6. Knowledge is limitless. What I learned in college is not enough. I need to know more, so I
enrolled in the graduate school to advance my learning. _________________

Case 7. At the end of the year, my performance as a teacher is reflected in the school performance of my
students. So I need to provide a monitoring tool to measure how they are progressing. The result will
inform me how I will address my learners ‘ weakness and enhance their strength.

______________________________

Case 8. I am teaching in a very far away barangay with no electricity yet. Many of the instructional aids
for the teaching sent to our school are films and video tapes which need power. I cannot use them, but the
lessons are very important. So I thought of making an alternative activity. I took my class to the river and
waterfall instead of doing the lesson._____________________________

Case 9. My principal asked me to attend a write shop to make the lesson exemplars in the teaching of
science in Grade 7. In the workshop, I used my experiences as a science teacher for ten years , and my
knowledge of the subject matter. At the end of three days, I was able to produce lesson exemplars which
I am proud of .________________________

Case 10. In grade 7 to grade 10 of the K to 12 Enhanced Curriculum, science as a subject is presented,
taught and learned in a spiral manner. This is part of the DepEd implementing guidelines of the
curriculum. I am a Biology major and I have insufficient knowledge about the other areas of science such
as Physics, and earth Science. Because of this dilemma, I have to request the principal that we have team
teaching. Which role of the curricularist, am I trying to do? _________________________________