PCK 5

The Teacher and the School Curriculum

• Curriculum as a process
• Curriculum in action
• Reflects the interaction among the teachers, students, and content
• Happens in the classroom (questions asked, learning activities engaged in)
• An active process with emphasis on the context
• Seen as a scheme about the practice of teaching and learning – the central concern of
teachers to emphasize critical thinking, thinking meaning-making, heads-on, and hands-
on doing, among others
• Links to the content
• Provides “how to teach” (content – on what to teach)
• Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) – the intersection of the content and the process
• Address the question – IF YOU HAVE THIS CONTENT, HOW WILL YOU TEACH IT?
• Process – how the contents will be communicated and learned whereas Content is the
substance of the curriculum
• Words that connote CURRICULUM AS A PROCESS – instruction, implementation, and teaching
• Approaches to curriculum as a process
• Problem-based
• Hands-on, Minds-on
• Cooperative learning
• Blended curriculum
• Online
• Cased-based
THESE ARE WAYS OF TEACHING, WAYS OF MANAGING THE CONTENT, GUIDING LEARNING,
METHODS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND STRATEGIES OF TEACHING OR DELIVERY MODES.
• Guiding principles for CURRICULUM AS A PROCESS
• Curriculum process in the form of teaching methods or strategies are means
to achieve the end.
• There is no single best process or method. Its effectiveness will depend on
the desired learning outcomes, the learners, the support materials, and the
teacher.
• Curriculum process should stimulate the learner’s desire to develop the
cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitude), and psychomotor (skills)
domains of each individual.
• In the choice of methods, learning and teaching styles should be considered.
• Every method or process should result to learning outcomes which can be
described in the three domains.
• Flexibility in the use of the process or methods should be
considered. An effective process will always result to learning
outcomes.
• Both teaching and learning are the two important processes in the
implementation of the curriculum.