Curriculum Implementation
Curriculum Implementation
Curriculum are implemented by the principal with the help of the teacher in an actual school setting and finding out if the curriculum achieved its goals.
Implementation is the actual use of the curriculum or syllabus.
Implementation does not only focus on the actual but also on the attitudes of those who implement it.
Implementation is an interaction between those who have created the programme and those who are charged to deliver it.
How to Implement a Curriculum
1. Laissez- Faire Approach (Let Alone Approach)
• The teacher has absolute power to determine what is best to implement in the classroom.
2. Authoritarian Control
• Teachers are directed by authority, through a memorandum, to follow a curriculum.
Factors That Influence Curriculum Implementation
1. The Teacher
2. The Learners
3. Resource materials and facilities
4. Interest groups
5. The School environment
6. Culture and Ideology
7. Instructional supervision
Curriculum Leadership
• It is an act of exercising functions that enables the achievement of school’s goal of providing quality education.
• Aims on maximizing student learning.
• Focuses on what is learned and how it is taught.
Roles and Functions of a Curriculum Leader
1. School Level
• Develop the school’s vision of a quality curriculum.
• Supplement the state’s or districts’ educational goals.
• Develop the school’s own program of studies.
• Determine the nature and extent of curriculum integration.
• Monitor and assist in curriculum implementation.
2. Classroom Level
• Develop yearly planning calendars of operationalizing the curriculum.
• Develop units of study.
Four Major Tasks of a Curriculum Leader (regardless of what level)
1. Ensuring curriculum quality and applicability.
2. Integrating and aligning the curriculum.
3. Implementing the curriculum efficiently.
4. Regularly evaluating,