reflection #7

Component 1 of the

Components of Curriculum and 

Curricular Approaches

The first component of a certain curriculum is to identify the aims, goals and its objectives. In a particular institution called school, whether directed by the government or by the private sector, a positive curriculum is implanted. In this beloved country, our educational system is split into three levels, we have primary, secondary and tertiary – each has its particular aims, goals and objectives.  As we are now applying and approaching the K to 12 educational program, the Tri-Focals of the country has been develop, namely, the Dep Ed for the primary level and CHED for the secondary and tertiary level and TESDA for vocational skills. 

We have also discussed the importance of the school’s vision and mission and goals. We have that VMGO acronym which stands for Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives. For us to know what would become of a particular institution, its vision would help us clarify it. For the vision to be carried out, the school’s mission statement is then significant, targeting to bring into being the kind of persons the students will become after having been educated over a certain period of time. Then, broad statements or plans to be accomplished, school must go further to its goals, which comprise the learners, the society and the support of knowledge. For the goals to be made simple, specific objectives are set for the achievement of an individual learner. It also direct to behavioral change which is the ultimate intention of learning. These are also the bases for which learning outcomes are to be evaluated.

I have also learned from Ma’am Olga about the 21^st Century Skill Literacy among Filipinos. One is considered literate if he/she is able to communicate well, expressing his/her ideas in the proper situation. Also, if one is comfortable or confident in terms of handling or manipulating the ICT; productive and competitive. 

The above checklist of a Filipino literate in this present generation is just one of the manifestations that the designed curriculum of an institution which entails its vision, mission, goals and objectives, is ever effective, successful and useful.

As we desire to be a curriculum designer one day, we then have to take into thought of what vision, mission, goals and objectives are to be considered as to the need of the learners and the society which comprises the first component of constructing a curriculum.