Curriculum

• Curriculum objectives guide the selection of content, instructional strategies, and assessment methods.
• Deals with the parts into which learning can be divided.
• Usually an individual subject. A fixed program of learning sessions completed by the learners.
• Document that contains important information about specific subject or program.
• Defined domain of knowledge and skills in academic program.
• Deals with a purposeful direction of learning process. Carried out by the teacher.
• Set of learning techniques that encourages students to take more of an active role in learning.
• Measurable skills, abilities, knowledge or values that students should be able to demonstrate. As a result of completing a lesson or course.
• Process of the teacher using appropriate curricula for create learning plans.
• Objectives of curriculum.
• To determine the outcomes of a program.
• To help in deciding whether to accept or reject a program.
• To ascertain the need for the revision of the course content.
• To help in future development of the curriculum material for continuous improvement.
• To improve methods of teaching and instructional techniques.
• It occurs during the course of curriculum development.
• The final effects of a curriculum are evaluated on the basis of its stated objectives.
• It is directed towards two purposes either for placement of students properly at the outset of an instructional level (such as secondary school), or to discover the underlying cause of deviancies in student learning in any field of study.
• They gain qualifications recognized for entry into the teaching profession?

  Beginners Teacher
• They have strong understanding of the subjects/areas in which they are trained in terms of content knowledge and pedagogy?

  Career Stage 1
• They seek advice from experienced colleagues to consolidate their teaching practice?

  Career Stage 1
• They are professionally independent in the application of skills vital to the teaching and learning process?

  Proficient teachers
• They provide focused teaching programs that meet curriculum and assessment requirements?

  Career Stage 2
• They are reflective practitioners who continually consolidate the knowledge, skills, and practices of Career Stage 1?

  Career Stage 2
• They consistently display a high level of performance in their teaching practice?

  Highly Proficient Teacher
• They have high education-focused situation cognition, are more adept in problem solving and optimize opportunities gained from experience?

  Career stage 3
• They continually seek to develop their professional knowledge and practice by reflecting on their own needs, and those of their collegues and students?

  Career Stage 3
• They embody the highest standard for teaching grounded in global best practices?

  Distinguished Teachers
• They recognize as leaders in education, contributors to the profession and initiators of collaborations and partnerships?

  Career stage 4
• They exhibit commitment to inspire the education community and stakeholders for the improvement of education provision in the Philippines?

  Career Stage 4