EDUNNOVATE: revolutionary curriculum planning and design under the new trends in Philippine education

Revolutionizing a curriculum required careful and comprehensive process. This study explored and examined school heads’ strategies and styles in the formulation and modification of curriculum relative to the local culture or needs of the school and the learners. It employed a descriptive research design where it was participated by 150 randomly selected school heads in the Philippines. Researcher-made survey questionnaire was used. Results revealed that school heads highly utilized participatory leadership as dominant strategy and style in leading and supervising the formulation and modification of curriculum based on local culture. Further, school heads highly perceived that instructional trends contain the use of multiple instructional strategies or differentiated instruction to deliver meaningful and retentive teaching and learning process. Thus, school heads should utilize participatory leadership as primary and dominant strategy and style for formulation and modification of curriculum because school heads can comprehensively solicit and collect accurate and reliable data through consistent participation of the stakeholders. However, school heads can also utilize different strategies or combinations of different strategies as local conditions may require.