JAY-ANN T.

SABIO
BSED-UNITERS

ACTIVITY 27- ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. What are the necessary requirements for teachers and administrators to implement a
standard-based curriculum?
 Curriculum standards include general statements of knowledge, skills, and
attitudes that students should learn and master as a result of schooling. The
standards generally include three different aspects: knowledge, skills, and
dispositions.
 Knowledge or content standards describe what students should know. These
include themes or conceptual strands that should be nurtured throughout the
student’s education.

2. What are the possible pitfalls of a standard-based curriculum?

 Problems in designing accountability policies that serve learning.

 Assessing new standards with old test.
 High stakes testing causes harm
 Teaching to the test.
 Cheating on the rise
 Teacher proofing instructional materials

3. How can curriculum standards influence assessment of learning?

Positive benefits for developing curriculum standards.
 Ensure that students learn what they need to know for high-level functioning
in the 21st century.
 Ensure educational quality across school districts and educational institutions.
 Provide educators with guideposts to mark the way to providing students with
meaningful outcomes to work-on
 Provide a curriculum template within which teachers and candidates are able
to focus on instructional delivery techniques that work.
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1. Identify different strategies and approaches done by teachers in designing a curriculum

that is culturally relevant and responsive to the learners.
 Content Integration deals with the extent to which teacher use examples and
content from variety of cultures and groups to illustrates key concepts, principles,
generalizations, and theories in their subject are or discipline.
 The Knowledge construction process consist of methods, activities, and questions
teachers use to help students to understand, investigate, and determine how
implicit cultural assumptions.
 Prejudice Reduction describes the characteristics of students’ attitudes and
strategies that can be used to help them develop more democratic attitudes and
values.
 Equity Pedagogy exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will
facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural, ethnic,
and gender groups.
 An Empowering School Culture and Social Structure

2. What are the possible benefits of a multicultural curriculum?

Focusing on Six Goals:
 Develop multiple historical perspectives
 Strengthen cultural consciousness
 Strengthen intercultural competence
 Combat racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice discrimination
 Increase awareness of the state of the planet and global dynamics
 Build social action skills.
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1. Identify examples of curriculum models for gifted learners in the Philippines

Philippines: Gifted Education Program

Basic Education Programs for the Gifted

 Elementary- DepEd SPED Program for Primary levels
 Secondary- Philippine High School for the Arts ( Children gifted in the Arts)
 Children gifted in Mathematics and Science- PSHS(DOST), Regional Science HS
and other private schools with special science curriculum

2. What are the special features of these gifted curriculum models implemented in the
Philippines?

 Scholarship programs offer

ACTIVITY 33

1. How can ICT integration in education help address education issues on quality and
access?
 Technology must be studied first as a separate subject, then applied in other
learning areas as a tool for learning how to learn
 Education modernization program will equip school with facilities, equipment,
materials and skills and introduce new learning and delivery systems necessary to
capitalize on recent technological developments.
 Technology integration is breaking the geographical barriers in education. It is
creating a new space for meaningful learning. With technology, it is now possible
to connect and interact with schools, educators, and other institutions from
different parts of the world.
 Distance education
 Computer assisted instruction
 Online learning
 Teleconferencing
 Online libraries
 Webinars
 Online journals
  E-books

2. What are the different curricular and instructional innovations related to ICT integration
being implemented in Philippine schools?

 Developing Information Communication Technology(ICT) Curriculum Standards for

K-12
 ICT in Instruction
 ICT in Learner Centered Environment
 ICT is introduced at the elementary level as a subject called Home Economics and
Livelihood Education (HELE) and in the secondary level as Technology and Home
Economics (THE). In majority of cases, ICT materials such as software and
multimedia are used to supplement instruction.

ACTIVITY 34

1. What are the possible benefits of implementing an outcome-based curriculum in higher

education?

 OBE is one of the dominant curriculum innovations in higher education. It came

out as curricular requirement for specific fields of study.
 OBE means clearly focusing and organizing everything in educational system

2. How does OBE support academic freedom?

By two Approaches:
 Traditional/ Transitional Approach emphasizes student mastery of traditional
subject related academic outcomes( usually with a strong focus on subject-
specific content) and cross- discipline outcomes
 Transformational Approach emphasizes long term cross-curricular outcomes
that are related directly to students future life roles( such as being a productive
worker or a responsible citizen or a parent.