1.
Aims, goals and
objectives (What is to be done?)
2.
Subject
matter/Content (What subject matter is to be included?)
3.
Learning Experiences
(What instructional strategies, resources and activities will be employed?)
4.
Evaluation Approaches
(What methods and instruments will be used to assess the results of the
curriculum?)
Component
1 Curriculum Aims Goals and Objectives
The Philippine Educational system is divided into three educational
levels namely the primary, secondary, and tertiary (with the tri localization the
educational system was divided into Basic Education (primary and secondary);
Technical-Vocational Education (Post-secondary education) and Higher Education
(tertiary education)
Based on the 1987 Philippine Constitution, all schools shall aim to:
1.
Inculcate patriotism
and nationalism
2.
Foster love of
humanity
3.
Promote respect for
human rights
4.
Appreciate the role
of national heroes in the historical development of the country.
5.
Teach the rights and
duties of citizenship.
6.
Strengthen ethical
and spiritual values
7.
Develop moral character
and personal discipline
8.
Encourage critical
and creative thinking; and
9.
Broaden scientific
and technological knowledge and promote vocational efficiency
Aims of Elementary Education (Education Act of 1982): through their
curricula, elementary education should aim to:
1. Provide knowledge and develop
skills, attitudes, values essential to personal development and necessary for
living in and contributing to a developing and changing society;
2. Provide learning experiences
which increase the child‘s awareness of and responsiveness to the changes in
the society;
3. Promote and intensify
knowledge, identification with and love for the nation and the people to which
he belongs; and
4. Promote work experiences
which develop orientation to the world of work and prepare the learner to
engage in honest and gainful work.
Aims of Secondary Education:
1. Continue to promote the
objectives of elementary education; and
2. Discover and enhance the
different aptitudes and interests of students in order to equip them with
skills for productive endeavor and or to prepare them for tertiary schooling
Aims of Tertiary Education
1. Provide general education
programs which will promote national identity, cultural consciousness, moral
integrity and spiritual vigor
2. Train the nation‘s manpower in
the skills required for national development
3. Develop the professions that
will provide leadership for the nation; and
4. Advance knowledge through
research and apply new knowledge for improving the quality of human life and
respond effectively to changing society.
Based on the mandate of the Constitution, each school therefore should
be guided by its vision, mission and goals and its curricula should also
revolved around these. The school‘s vision is a clear concept of what the
institution would like to become in the future. It provides the focal point and
unifying element according to which the school staff, faculty and students
perform individually or collectively. It is the guiding post around which all
educational efforts, including curricula, should be directed. The school‘s
vision can be very ambitious, but that is a characteristic of a vision
The school‘s vision and mission are further translated into goals which
are broad statements of intents to be accomplished. Data for the source of a
school goals may include the learners, the society and the fund of knowledge.
In a curriculum, these goals are made simple and specific for the
attainment of each learner. These are called educational objectives, Benjamin
Bloom and Robert Mager defined educational objectives in two ways:
1. Explicit formulation of the
ways in which students are expected to be changed by the educational process,
and
2. Intent communicated by
statement describing a proposed change in learners. In other words, objectives
direct the change in behavior, which is the ultimate aim of learning. They
provide the bases for the selection of learning content and learning
experiences. They also set the criteria against which learning outcomes will be
evaluated.