Ave Maria College

Vallesville-Fatima, Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines,

7115
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT:
Definition and Importance
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this presentation, the students should be
able to:

1. define what is Curriculum and Curriculum

Development,
2. discuss the importance of Curriculum
Development,
3. and explain the importance of Curriculum
Development in Enhancing Teaching and Learning.
CURRICULUM
  theplanned and guided learning experiences
and intended outcomes, formulated to the
systematic reconstruction of knowledge and
experiences under the auspices of the school,
for the learners’ continuous and willful growth
in personal social competence. (Tanner, 1980)
CURRICULUM

 The contents of a subject, concepts, and

tasks to be acquired, planned activities,
the desired learning outcomes and
experiences, product of culture and an
agenda to reform society. (Schubert,
1987)
Curriculum Development

 is defined as planned, a purposeful, progressive, and

systematic process to create positive improvements
in the educational system. Every time there are
changes or developments happening around the
world, the school curricula are affected. There is a
need to update them to address the society’s needs,
(Bilbao et al., 2008).
 describes all the ways in which teaching or
training organization plans and guides
learning. This learning can take place in
groups or with individual learners. It can take
place inside or outside the classroom. It can
take place in an institutional setting like
school, college, training center, or in a village
or a field. It is central to the teaching-learning
process. (Rogers and Taylor)
 Importance of Curriculum
Development

 1. Clear Purpose and Goals

 2.
Continuous Assessment and
Improvement of Quality
 3. A Rational Sequence

 4.
Making Strategy in Teaching
and Learning
 5. Common Goals

 6. Always Changing
 The Importance of Curriculum
Development in Enhancing Teaching
and Learning
 A positiveand important shift in
curriculum has been one of global
citizenship. Students are learning more
about how to exist and contribute in a
world that is increasingly intertwined and
interconnected.
CONCLUSION
Based on the presentation, the following can be
concluded:

 1. Curriculum refers to the lessons and

academic content taught in a school or in a
specific course or program.
 2. Curriculum Development is a purposeful,
progressive, and systematic process to create
positive improvements in the educational system.

 3. Curriculum must and does change regularly,

making it an even more essential foundation on
which to base our teaching methods.
Personal Reflection
 With the presentation that I had presented about
Curriculum Development, I learned that a School
cannot exist without a curriculum. For the school is put
up to be an institution of guidelines, an institution for
educating children into the knowledge they have to
attain for the sake of survival in the world of
community they live in. Furthermore, without
curriculum, a school is worthless or of no use.
 As a future educator, I can apply the things I’ve learned by
making Curriculum as the heart of my teaching. That’s
how essential, valuable, and important curriculum is to me
as a future teacher. So I would know what to teach, how to
teach and why to teach. It will be my guiding light to lead
the learners to the essentials that they should learn. And I
will also adjust, develop, change and improve my ways of
teaching, and the things to be taught to my students for
them to be able to adopt in the changing society or world
they live in.
  
List of References
 Bilbao, P.P., Lucido, P. I., Iringan, T. C., and R. B.
Javier (2008). Curriculum Development. Philippines:
Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
  
 Alvior, M. G. (2014). The Meaning and Importance
of Curriculum Development. In SimplyEducate.Me.
Retrieved from
http://simplyeducate.me/2014/the-meaning-and-impo
rtance-of-curriculum-development/
 Herring,
H.C., Bryan, B.J., (2010) Curriculum
Development, The University of Mississippi,
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