LOCALIZATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION

SING a LOCAL SONG that is POPULAR in your PLACE

ACTIVITY

LOCALIZATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION

LEGAL BASIS

RA 10533Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013

Localization and Contextualization

Sec. 10.2 (d) and (h) – Implementing Rules and Regulations for RA 10533

“The curriculum shall be CONTEXTUALIZED and global;”

“The curriculum shall be flexible enough to enable and allow schools to LOCALIZE, INDIGENIZE, and enhance [the curriculum] based on their respective educational and social contexts.”

Localization and Contextualization

DepEd MissionTo protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete

basic education where:- Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment

- Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner

- Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen

- Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for

developing life-long learners

CULTURE-BASED EDUCATION

Localization and Contextualization

Why do we need to localize and contextualize the curriculum and the use of learning

materials?

CULTURALDIVERSITY

GEOGRAPHY

PEOPLE

Localization

Freedom for schools or local authorities to adapt the curriculum to local conditions and relating the content of the curriculum and the process of teaching and learning to the local environment...(Taylor 2004)

Contextualization

Developing new skills, knowledge, abilities, and attitudes in students presenting new subject matter in meaningful and relevant context: context of previous experience, real-life and workplace

Contextualization• process involving procedures which

aim to establish connections between disciplinary contents and the real life situations experienced by students, their characteristics as individuals and the culture and habits of a particular social context

• aims to promote students’ success and knowledge and acquisition of skills

Localization and Contextualization

The curriculum is alive, it changes depending who is implementing it, where and when it is implemented.

In order for you to localize and contextualize the curriculum, “you have to think of where you are so that you can make the curriculum relevant to you.” – Usec. Dina Ocampo

when we localize [the curriculum], we agree to it

This means that different areas in the country will use different materials, they will use different instruments so that they can deliver the standards of the curriculum.

LOCALIZATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION

HOW?

• Localization and contextualization can be done in all subject areas

• Localization maximizes materials that are locally available

• To contextualize, teachers use authentic materials, activities, interests, issues, and needs from learners’ lives

• Should create rooms for students to pose problems and issues and develop strategies together for addressing them

• The localized or contextualized curriculum is based on local needs and relevance for the learners where there is flexibility and creativity in the lessons.

• Tailor-fit the lesson• Build on what they already

have• Accommodate and respect

cultural, linguistic, and racial diversity

In designing activities in the classroom using authentic materials, it is important to set the purpose first.

• Helpful questionso How will students interact with the material?o What will students learn?o Why will they learn it?

Sample prompts

How? Students will __________________

What? in order to _____________________

Why? so they can ____________________

Sample prompts

How? Analyze the scenery (local spots) in a photograph

What? in order to identify the elements

Why? so they can appreciate local work of art, artist….preserve and promote the beauty of the environment

Sample prompts

How? Students will __________________

What? in order to _____________________

Why? so they can ____________________

“Knowing how, when and why to say what

to whom”

The Big Picture

Standards for PL Learning in 21st Century