The document discusses how the implementation of the K-12 curriculum in the Philippines has impacted teacher education programs. It emphasizes the need to integrate technology into teaching and learning to meet the demands of 21st century classrooms. Specifically, it outlines six salient features of the K-12 curriculum that can be facilitated through technological tools, such as strengthening early childhood education, making the curriculum more relevant to learners, building proficiency in mother tongue education, ensuring integrated and seamless learning, preparing students for their future, and developing well-rounded students ready for college or careers.
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Technology For Teaching and Learning 2
The document discusses how the implementation of the K-12 curriculum in the Philippines has impacted teacher education programs. It emphasizes the need to integrate technology into teaching and learning to meet the demands of 21st century classrooms. Specifically, it outlines six salient features of the K-12 curriculum that can be facilitated through technological tools, such as strengthening early childhood education, making the curriculum more relevant to learners, building proficiency in mother tongue education, ensuring integrated and seamless learning, preparing students for their future, and developing well-rounded students ready for college or careers.
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Technology for Teaching
and Learning 2 Module 1 Learning Plans in the Context of the 21st Century The K to 12 Curriculum Framework
The implementation of K to 12 Curriculum of the Department of
Education paved the way for the enhancement of the Teacher Education Curriculum of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The salient features of the K to 12 Curriculum have been thoroughly considered to ensure that all the courses in the teacher education program will meet the demands of the 21 st century classrooms. One of the considerations is the need to implement the following salient features of the curriculum through integrating technologies for teaching and learning. The use of technologies is done in the different levels of learning and in teaching the various fields of specialization.
1. Strengthening Early Childhood Education (Universal Kindergarten)
with the Universal Kindergarten program of the Department, every Filipino child is expected to have access to early childhood education. This access can be facilitated using technological tools that are readily available to the school for teachers’ use. 2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners (Contextualization and Enhancement) Research shows that learners will value a curriculum that is relevant to their lives. Students are often heard saying, “Do I need to know these to live a meaningful life?” “How will I use this lesson in the actual workplace?” “What is the relevance of this to me?” and so on. Briggs (2014) shared some few tips for making learning engaging and personally relevant as cited by Willis, Faeth, and Immordino-Yang: Use suspense and keep it fresh – drop hints about a new learning unit before you reveal what it might be, leave gaping pauses in your speech, change seating arrangements, and put up new and relevant posters or displays; all these can activate emotional signals and keep student interest piqued. Make it student-directed – Give students a choice of assignments on a particular topic, or ask them to design one of their own. Connect it to their lives and to what they already know – Taking the time to brainstorm about what students already know and would like to learn about a topic helps them to create goals. Provide utility value – utility value provides relevance first by piquing students and by telling them the content is important to their future goals; it then continues by showing or explaining how the content fits into their plans for the future. This helps students realize the content is not just interesting but also worth knowing. Build relatedness – Relatedness, on the other hand, answers the question, “What have these to do with me?” It is an inherent need students to feel close to the significant people in their lives, including teachers. Relatedness is seen by many as having non-academic and academic sides.
To be able to apply the tips recommended by various experts and
to allow students to realize the value of their curriculum, technological tool can be used. 3. Building Proficiency (Mother-tongue Based Multilingual Education) – to be able to promote the child’s dominant language and to use it as a language of instruction, maximum use of technological tools is highly encouraged. 4. Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning (Spiral Progression) – Learning basic concepts that lead to a more complex and sophisticated version of the general concepts entail TPACK: Technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge. 5. Gearing Up for the Future – the K to 12 Curriculum ensures college readiness by aligning the core and applied courses to the College Readiness Standards (CRS) and the new General Education (GE) Curriculum. 6. Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino (College and Livelihood Readiness, 21st Century Skills) – to nurture holistically developed Filipino, every K to 12 graduate is expected to be ready to go into different paths – higher education, employment, or entrepreneurship.