Activity 2: Mr. Or Ms. Principal: What curriculum approach are you using?
Principal: Mr. Elrey Alex M. Limbaoan- Tabucbuc Elementary School
Questions Answers
1. What is curriculum to you? Curriculum is a guide or elements of
subject which taught in every
institutional education from elementary
to tertiary level
2. Is your curriculum effective for the Yes. Because that is the basis of the
learning progress of your pupils? department of education to learner to
fulfill the mission and vision as their
foundation for better and functionally
literate
3. What approaches of curriculum are you Basic Education Curriculum(BEC)
using?
4. Why do you Because with the restructured
choose that as your approach in curriculum, this approach hopes to
planning and implementing the develop students into skilled Filipinos
curriculum in your school? capable of working creatively in a
rapidly changing world. And as Former
President Macapagal-Arroyo says that
emphasis on English, Science and Math
will help the country compete in an era
of globalization."
Since teachers are being trained on the
BEC before the first day of classes on
June starts, training will the school
based.
John Franklin Bobbit was born February 16, 1876, he was an American educationist, a
university professor and a writer. A representative of the efficiency minded thinkers, he
specialized in the field of the curriculum.
Bobbitt created five steps for curriculum making: (a) analysis of human experience, (b)
job analysis, (c) deriving objectives, (d) selecting objectives, and (e) planning in detail. The first
step was about separating all of human experience into major fields. This was followed by step
two, where the fields were broken down into more specific activities. The third step was to form
the objective from the abilities needed to perform the activities. Next is the fourth step, where the
objectives are selected from to find ones that would serve as the basis for planning activities for
the students. The last step was to lay out activities, experiences, and opportunities that would be
needed to obtain the objectives.
Besides a change in the content of the curriculum, Bobbitt was also calling for the
elimination of conventional school subjects. He preferred subjects that were themselves areas of
living, such as citizenship and leisure. Bobbitt also believed that schools were charged to provide
society with what it needed as determined by scientific analyses.
Bobbitt realized that there were too many activities (for example related to citizenship,
health, spare time, parentship, work related activities and languages) to fit in any curriculum. A
part of those activities were well thought by socialization: the so called undirected experiences.
This is why the curriculum has to aim at the particular subjects that are not sufficiency learned as
a result of normal socialization, these subjects were described as shortcomings.
John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859. He was an American philosopher, psychologist, and
educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The School
and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916) and
Experience and Education (1938). Throughout these writings, several recurrent themes ring true;
Dewey continually argues that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and
thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take
place. In addition, he believed that students thrive in an environment where they are allowed to
experience and interact with the curriculum, and all students should have the opportunity to take
part in their own learning.