1. What is a curriculum?

Curriculum is basically what students are expected to learn in the classroom and how
the lessons are taught. It refers to all educational experiences that students go through, for
which the school takes responsibility.
2. Label the boxes in the curriculum development model below. Choose from the following:
Educational Plan (Content and Instruction)
Extraneous Influences (Influences of Factors outside the School)
Evaluation and Revision
Needs of Students, Society , and the Subject
Educational Philosophy

Needs of Students,
Society and the Subject

Evaluation and Revision Educational Philosophy

Education Plan (Content Extraneous Influences

and Instruction) (Influences of the Factors
outside the School)

3. Enumerate the four basic tasks in curriculum leadership

a. Providing quality curriculum and its practical application to life
b. Integrating and aligning curriculum
c. Implementing efficiently and effectively the curriculum
d. Regularly evaluating, enriching and updating the curriculum

4. Identify the three perspectives used to explain how and why certain implementation
practices are followed.
a. Technical
b. Political
c. Cultural

5. Differentiate between laissez-faire approach and the authoritarian approach in curriculum

implementation.
 Laissez-faire approach or the "let-alone" approach. This gives teachers absolute power
to determine what they see best to implement in the classroom. In effect, this allows teachers
to teach lessons they believe are appropriate for their classes and in whatever way they want
to teach such lessons. There is no firm of control or monitoring whatsoever.
Authoritarian control. In this view, teachers are directed by authority figures through a
memorandum, to follow a curriculum. Teachers have no control or leeway over the subjects
they are teaching. The school head exercise absolute power in directing teachers to teach
certain subjects in specified ways. In other words, this approach is dictatorial way of imposing
curricular implementation in the classroom.
6. Define Enrichment Curriculum.
CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT is a plan that provides excitement and restores fun in the
curriculum. It extends the mastery curriculum by providing a series of planned activities to
reinforce the latter’s content. It is really about “enriching the learning environment. Learning
experience and teaching approaches.” (Renzulli and Ries)
ENRICHMENT -the learning that goes beyond what is prescribed by the mastery curriculum.
7. Why is there a need for schools to have different curricula?
Revision of the curriculum is necessary to meet the needs of the learners. The
geographic location of the schools, the different characteristics, needs and even the culture of
the learners are the reasons why there is a need for different curricula.
8. Should it be recommended that a curriculum is developed solely by the school head
without consulting teachers and other groups in the community? Why or why not?
No, the curriculum should be constructed or developed collaboratively by the school
head, teachers, parents and the community as a whole.

9. A principal lets his teachers develop their school curriculum on their own. He/she merely
gives approval to their final output. Would you say that he/she exercised curriculum
leadership? Why or why not?
No, there is a need for the principal to be actively involved in the curriculum
development process because the principal serves as the educational leader of the school. It is
imperative that they have a working knowledge of effective instructional strategies and
understand the needs of their students and teachers.  As an effective curriculum leader, he
or she must see to it that quality education will be achieved
10. Why is implementation a crucial activity in the cycle of planning and teaching a
curriculum?
Curriculum implementation is very important because the planned or officially designed
course of study by curriculum specialists and subject experts is translated by the teacher into
syllabuses, schemes of work and lessons to be delivered in a classroom or school setting.