SIGNIFICANCE OF CONTEXTUALIZATION IN TEACHING AP

Presentation of facts and dates as part of teaching araling panlipunan subject resemble a culture of straight forward teaching ,putting food into the mouth of a child and help him chew. This kind of set-up would have exposed limited range of learning, an unproductive delivery of the teaching and learning process.

Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 Make education learner-oriented a responsive to the needs, cognitive and cultural capacity, the circumstances and diversity of learners, schools and communities through the appropriate languages of teaching and learning, including mother tongue as a learning resources.

The DepEd shall adhere to the following standards and principles in enhanced basic education curriculum:

Use the spiral progression approach to ensure mastery … flexible enough to enable and allow schools to localize, indigenize and enhance the same based on their respective educational and social contexts. The production and development of locally produced teaching materials shall be encouraged and approval of these materials shall devolve to the regional and division education units.

Contextualization refers to the educational process of relating the curriculum to a particular setting, situation or area of application to make the competencies relevant, meaningful, and useful to all learners.

Indigenization refers to the process of enhancing curriculum competencies, education resources, and teaching-learning processes in relation to the bio-geographical, historical, and socio-cultural context of the learners’ community. Indigenization may also involve the enhancement of the curriculum framework, curriculum design, and learning standards of subject areas, guided by the standards and principles adhered to by the national curriculum.

Teacher should know how to translate or transform topic or lesson into simpler and specific with accordance to the locality

Contextualizing and indigenizing lesson in AP would make every lesson interesting. Some lessons in AP that explains facts and dates would be better to deliver if the teacher uses contextualized materials.

These are ways to enrich the curriculum, to further enhance the curriculum according to the type and needs of learner. Understanding further what are types of learners you have inside the classroom and give what is due for them to achieve quality performance.

— oOo— III at Caduang Tete High School The author is Teacher

JULIET Y. NUQUI

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