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Effective parental involvement in school affairs may be linked to parent educational programs which is central to high quality educational experiences of the children.The parents become part of the environment of leaning at home. Parents follow up the lesson of their children especially in basic education.Parents provide curriculum materials that are not provided in the schools.They provide permission for their children to participate in various activities outside the school campus.In most cases parents associations have strengthen the curriculum by giving support to various activities and assisting in the accomplishment of the schools curriculum.Interview a teacher in the school you visited and inquire how they have utilized their parents as school partners in education.

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As a future teacher, I need to know and understand the six (6) features of the curriculum because

most curricula start to gain life from the time it is conceived and written. Curriculum is the larger blueprint, the broad guidelines and areas/topics of study. A teacher interprets, plans and executes the curriculum on a day to day basis. Resources are being generated, teaching and learning aids, activities, projects are identified according to the needs of the learners. Only the teacher knows the demographies, abilities of her student. It is the teacher who can customize it in order to cater individual needs. It is important that teachers should have collaboration efforts to the parents, faculty members, administrators, community members and other stakeholders.

Teachers are the most crucial persons in the implementation of the curriculum. He/she holds the key in operationalizing what activities have been planned. With the full support of the principal, supervisor and other school administrators, the teachers who are empowered will be able to select, organize carry out and evaluate learning experiences.Teachers shape the school curriculum by sharing experiences that they have and the resources they are cpable of giving or imparting to the learners.

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Make two (2) posters/placards on the features/approaches of the curriculum.

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4FIELD STUDYEpisode 7Exploring the CurriculumFS

Name of FS Student__James Robert Pebida Villacorteza______________________Course __Bachelor of Elementary Education_ Year & Section _____III I_________Resource Teacher ___________________ Signature ________ Date ____________Cooperating School _______Bayawan City East Central School_________________THE Wh- OF THE CURRICULUM

At the end of this episode, I should be able to identify the contribution of students in enhancing and assessing the curriculum.

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State the roles of the following in curriculum implementation:LearnerThe learners are very reason why a curriculum is developed center of education processParentsThe success of the curricula would somehow depend on their supportFaculty MembersCurriculum developers and implementers and teacher are architects of school curriculum, guiding, facilitating, and directing activities which will be done by the students.AdministratorsCurriculum manager and supervise curriculum implementation and plays an important role in shaping the school curriculum because they are the people responsible in the formulation of schools VMGOCommunity MembersThe success of the curriculum requires resourcesOther StakeholdersContribute in curriculum review because they have a voice in licensure examinations, curriculum enhancement and many moreIdentify ways on how to effectively implement the curriculum. Interview the school administrator / principal.

LEARNER: Primary stakeholder in the curriculum. They make the curriculum alive by their active and direct involvement.

PARENTS: (supporters to the curriculum) best supporters of the school because they are the ones paying for their childs education.FACULTY MEMBERS: by designing, enriching and modifying the curriculum to suit the learner characteristics.

ADMINISTRATORS: by providing necessary leadership in evaluating teaching personnel and school program.COMMUNITY MEMBERS: by being active partners to the school. They can provide local and indigenous knowledge in the school curriculum.CURRICULUMIMPLEMENTATION

OTHER STAKEHOLDER: by contributing to curriculum review.

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The role of technology finds its place at the onset of curriculum implementation, namely at the stage of instructional planning. Technology offers various toolf of learning and these range from non-projected and projected media form which the teacher can choose, depending on what he sees fit with the intended instructional setting.Media or technology helps in achieving the set learning objectives.Visit the Learning Resource Center of a school. Interview the media / learning resource staff. How does technology help in delivery the curriculum?

Interview a faculty member or an administrator. Ask what criteria they use in evaluating their school curriculum.

The objectives of the curriculum or teaching plan are te most important curriculum criteria.The criteria are stated in the form of questions as follows:Have the goals of the curriculum plan been clearly stated; and are they used by teachers and students in choosing content, materials and activities for learning?Have teacher and students engaged in student-teacher planning in defining the goals and in determining how they will be implemented or teacher will be done?Do some of the planned goals relate to the society or the community in which the curriculum will be implenmented or teaching will be done?Do some of the planned goals relate to the individual learners and his/her needs, purposes, interest and abilities.

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Complete the graffiti wall and ask students to write what tools they learned in assessing the curriculum.

ObservationalEX. OBSERVATION

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Write an acronym for curriculum assessment.ATTAINABLE

SPECIFIC

STUDENT CENTERED

ECONOMICAL

STANDARDIZED

SYNTACTIC CORRECTNESS

MEASURABLE

EVALUATION

NORM REFERENCE

TIME BOUNDED

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Exploring the CurriculumFIELD STUDY4Episode 8 FS

Name of FS Student__James Robert Pebida Villacorteza______________________Course __Bachelor of Elementary Education_ Year & Section _____III I_________Resource Teacher ___________________ Signature ________ Date ____________Cooperating School _______Bayawan City East Central School_________________WHATS NEW IN THE CURRICULUM?

At the end of this activity, I should be able to discuss the different curricular issues and concerns.

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Interview school officials, faculty members or read education journals and magazines to complete the matrix.Curricular InnovationsAdvantages (Merits)Disadvantages (Demerits)My Insights

1. 2002 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM Develop students into skilled Filipinos capable of working creatively in a rapidly changing world. Helps the country complete in an era of globalization. BEC will reduce the number of hours devoted to social studies and values education and continue the use of defective textbooks. Vacancy of job is lesson. The BEC has its own advantages which is the reduction of time allocated in values education. It is the teachers obligation to integrate values to every lesson, may it be science, math, etc.

2. THIRD ELEMENTARY EDUATION PROGRAM(TEEP) Access to equality elementary has been achieved. Advocate principal empowerment in all the education component. The project only focused on the elementary level. According to my research on Policy Implications, targeting has to be reconsidered sample shows poor facility schools in Non- TEEP areas

3. Secondary Education Improvement and Development Program(SEDIP) Strengthened the planning and management capacity. Initial results showed gains and best practices have been replicated in other divisions which were not participants in the project. Limited divisions were participants of the projects. The program lasted only for 6 years. Although it contributed to some changes but a much better curriculum innovation must be done.

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Select one innovation and complete the discussion web below. Interview Education students to get their ideas on curricular innovations.- DEPeD must first

solve the lack of

classrooms, furniture

and equipment,

qualified, teachers

and error free text

Books.

- the drop rates will

increase because

extra two years.

- Enhancing the basic

education is urgent

and critical.

- International test

results consistently

show Filipino lagging

way behind practically

everybody else in the

world.

NOYESDo we really need to innovate?K to 12

Therefore I conclude that the K-12 program has its

own pros and cons. I firmly believe that before making a stand

on the K to 12 program, each of us must carefully study the

possible effects or impact of this curriculum innovations to the

learners.

In my own views, the Philippine Government is not

yet equipped with the necessary requirements to run the K

to 12 program effectively. I just hope that the Department of

Education will be responsive to pending problems of K to 12

program will be facing in the future.

My Conclusions

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State your commitment as a student regarding curricular innovations.

PLEDGE OF COMMITMENTI James Robert Pebida Villacorteza an Education student of NORSU-BSC fully commit myself to implement the curricular innovation on NORSU-BSC to best of my ability.I fully realize that I need to do this for the betterment of my learners and that of my society.James Robert VillacortezaName and Signature

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