Knowing what to teach and when is a common source of anxiety among novice teachers. Many cities, districts, and schools help teachers pace their lessons with a curriculum guide. Though sometimes stringent, these tools can make teaching more focused.
What Is a Curriculum Guide?
Teachers don’t walk into the classroom not knowing what to teach and when to teach it. If education worked that way, it would be chaotic! Instead, states, districts, and individual schools help define what material teachers cover by creating a curriculum guide, a guide that outlines material teachers need to cover. Although a curriculum guide can range from very specific to a general outline, teachers from early childhood education to the professional world use them for direction when planning.
Depending on the institution, a curriculum guide might be subject- and/or grade-specific. For example, an elementary school might have curriculum guides for math, science, social studies, and language arts for each grade level from kindergarten up.
Within each subject, the guide outlines objectives, or standards, that students are expected to meet by the end of a set time frame, usually the school year. Some guides are specific, providing details on what is to be taught and when, as well as how instruction should look. For example, a math curriculum guide might direct a teacher to teach fractions in November and then further break down the content to day-by-day instruction on numerators and denominators. It might even provide steps for teacher instruction and possible tasks for practice and assessment. Source: study.com
What Should Be Taught In The K-12 Curriculum According To The Department Of Education?
Teachers must have a deep understanding of the curriculum and strive to teach its content. In planning daily lessons, teachers need to follow the Curriculum Guide (CG) of the learning area being taught.
Using the Curriculum Guide (CG), teachers can plan the many ways to teach what it contains including the content standards or the essential knowledge that students need to learn, performance standards or the abilities and skills learners need to demonstrate in relation to the knowledge they have learned, and learning competencies or the knowledge, skills, and attitudes learners need to demonstrate in every lesson.
Following the CG, teachers can also plan their instruction backwards. That is, they can set a long-term vision of what learners need to be able to master in terms of content and competencies at the end of the school-year and endeavor to achieve this goal. At the end of the year, learners should have mastery of grade level standards and demonstrate readiness to learn the curriculum standards of the next grade level.
Teachers can guarantee this by taking advantage of and maximizing the coded curriculum. The lessons teachers plan daily should aid learners in mastering the content and competencies of the curriculum progressively. Each lesson plan should, therefore, have learner-centered objectives that are aligned with the standards of the curriculum.
In preparing daily lessons, teachers can also make use of multiple resources that are available to them including the Teacher’s Guide (TG), Learner’s Material (LM), additional materials from the Learning Resources Management and Development System (LRMDS) portal, textbooks, and others supplementary materials, whether digital, multimedia, or online, including those that are teacher-made. However, these materials should be used by teachers as resources, not as the curriculum. Source: Department of Education
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