ISSUES AND

CONCERN IN
CURRICULUM
 How Do We Define Curriculum?
Curriculum is that which is
taught at school.
Curriculum is a set of subjects.

Curriculum is content.

Curriculum is a sequence of

courses.
Issues and Concerns in
Curriculum
 Lack of regular monitoring and evaluation.

 Poor academic performance of learners

related to issues on the varied
implementation of the curriculum among
schools and teachers.
Issues and Concerns in Curriculum
 Curricular innovations lack the sense of
ownership from stakeholders.

 Innovations results to teacher burn out.

 Some curricular innovations are results

of bandwagon but are not well
supported by managers.
Responses to Issues and Concerns
 General practice seems to show that when a new
curriculum is introduced or implemented, it ends
without a report or result. New curricular
programs have now embedded monitoring and
evaluation in its plan.

 Collaboration in the implementation of a new

curriculum is very necessary so that a sense of
ownership is achieved and success is assured.
 Responses to Issues and Concerns
 The BEC is an example of an innovation that tries to
address the continuous decline in learners’ performance in
basic education.

 In the installation of a new curriculum or innovation, all

stakeholders should be involved.

 There is a need to respond to the fast changing times in

terms of school curriculum innovations. Committees
should be formed to address each phase or curriculum
installation, implementation and evaluation.
 Issues in K12 Curriculum
 Insufficient learning materials such as
books and readers guides, more than
one preparation for DLL's, and lack of
laboratories and other teaching and
learning facilities, difficulties in
assessing Student-Transferee from other
educational institution offering different
subjects
Issues in K12 Curriculum
teaching materials, visual aids and lack of
established partnership with local industry,
research institutions, and local government
units was identified as challenge as
experienced by the teachers of Integrated and
Stand Alone Senior High Schools.