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Understanding Curriculum as Process

Curriculum is seen as a process rather than a physical thing or noun. It emphasizes the context in which teaching and learning occurs rather than just the content. The process of teaching focuses on critical thinking and hands-on learning. While content provides what to teach, the curriculum process provides how to teach the content through methods like problem-based or cooperative learning. When asked what curriculum they use, teachers may refer to process-oriented approaches. Guiding principles for the curriculum process include using various methods to achieve learning outcomes and considering students' learning styles.

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Understanding Curriculum as Process

Curriculum is seen as a process rather than a physical thing or noun. It emphasizes the context in which teaching and learning occurs rather than just the content. The process of teaching focuses on critical thinking and hands-on learning. While content provides what to teach, the curriculum process provides how to teach the content through methods like problem-based or cooperative learning. When asked what curriculum they use, teachers may refer to process-oriented approaches. Guiding principles for the curriculum process include using various methods to achieve learning outcomes and considering students' learning styles.

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Curriculum as a Process

 Curriculum is not seen as a physical thing or a noun, but as a


verb or an action. It is an active process with emphasis on the
context in which the processes occur.
 For example, it is used in analogy of the recipe in a cookbook,
a recipe is the content while the ways of cooking is the
process.

 Curriculum as a process is seen as a scheme about the practice


of teaching. It is not a package of materials or a syllabus of
content to be covered.
 The process of teaching and learning becomes the central
concern of the teachers to emphasize critical thinking,
thinking meaning-making and heads-on, hands-on doing
and many others.

 As a process, curriculum links to the content. While


content provides materials on what to teach, the process
provides curriculum on how to teach the content.
 The interaction of the content and process is called the
Pedagogical Content Knowledge or PCK. It will address the
question: If you have this content, how will you teach it?

 To the teachers, the process is very critical. This is the other


side of the coin: instruction, implementation, teaching.
These three words connote the process in the curriculum.
 When educators ask teachers: what curriculum are you
using? Some of the answers will be: 1. problem-based. 2.
Hands-on, Minds on 3. Cooperative Learning 4. Blended
Curriculum 5. On-line 6. Case-based and many more.
These responses approach curriculum as a Process.
When curriculum is approached as a PROCESS,
guiding principles are presented.
1. Curriculum process in the form of teaching methods of
strategies are means to achieve the end.
2. There is no single best process or method. Its effectiveness will
depend on the desired learning outcomes, the learners, support
materials and the teacher.
3. Curriculum process should stimulate the learners’ desire to
develop the cognitive, affective, psychomotor domains in each
individual.
4. In the choice of methods, learning and teaching styles should be
considered.
5. Every method or process should result to learning outcomes
which can be described as cognitive, affective and psychomotor.

6. Flexibility in the use of the process or the methods should be


considered. An affective process will always result to learning
outcomes.

7. Both teaching and learning are the two important processes in


the implementation of the curriculum.
Curriculum as a Product
 Product is what the students desire to achieve as a learning
outcomes.
 The product from the curriculum is a student equipped with
the knowledge, skills and values to function effectively and
efficiently.
 The real purpose of education is to bring about significant
changes in students’ pattern of behavior.
 Curriculum product is expressed in form of outcomes which
are referred to as the achieved learning outcomes.

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