Session 2ppt2

• The 21st century curriculum covers kindergarten, and 12 years of basic education (6 years of elementary education, four years of junior high school and two years senior high school) to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment and entrepreneurship.
• The K-12 curriculum requires skills in Information, Media and Technology, Learning and innovation, Effective communication, and Life and career skills.
• Technology can be used most effectively in various fields of specialization to support and assess student learning.
• Technological tools for teaching and learning can promote the salient features of the K-12 curriculum by enabling collaboration, providing access to resources, and facilitating personalized learning.
• The K-12 curriculum offers several advantages, including a focus on real-world applications, a balance between academic and vocational education, and a flexible structure that allows for individualization.
• Developing learning plans for classes is crucial to ensure that available technologies for teaching and learning are used in a meaningful way.
• The implementation of the K-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-12 curriculum have been thoroughly considered to ensure that all the courses in the teacher education program will meet the demand of the 21st century classrooms.
• One of the considerations in implementing the K-12 curriculum through integrating technologies for teaching and learning is the need to strengthen Early Childhood Education (Universal Kindergarten), make the curriculum relevant to learners (contextualization and enhancement), build proficiency (Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education), ensure integrated and seamless learning (spiral progression), gear up for the future, and nurture the holistically developed Filipino (college and livelihood readiness, 21st century skills).
• Strengthening Early Childhood Education (Universal Kindergarten) in the K-12 curriculum can be facilitated using technological tools that are readily available to the school for teacher’s use.
• Making the curriculum relevant to learners (contextualization and enhancement) in the K-12 curriculum can be done through engaging learners emotionally or connecting the information with what they already know.
• Briggs (2014) shared some tips for making learning engaging and personally relevant as cited by Willis, faith, and Immordino-Yang.
• Active learning increases the focus and retention of the learners in the curriculum.
• Teachers make decisions about how they will implement the curriculum of their specific field of specialization.
• Children learn better and are more active in class and learn a second language even faster when they are first taught in the language they understand.
• Relatedness is an inherent need students have to feel close to the significant people in their lives, including teachers.
• Learners retain their ethnic identity, culture, heritage and values when they are taught in their mother tongue.
• The K-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.
• 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.
• Rediscovering concepts previously presented as students go up in grade level will be fully supported if all the areas of specialization are aided by technologies for teaching and learning.
• Utility value provides relevance first by engaging students and telling them the content is important.
• Every graduate is expected to be equipped with information, media, and technology skills, learning and innovation skills, effective communication skills, and life career skills.
• The role of the teachers in the curriculum process is to help students develop an engaged relationship with the content.
• Proficiency in a mother tongue is essential for the promotion of the child’s dominant language and the use of it as a language of instruction, maximum use of technological tools is highly encouraged.
• Teachers play a very important role in the facilitation of student learning by designing, implementing and evaluating curriculum.
• Nurturing holistically developed Filipino means every K-12 graduate is expected to be ready to go into different paths – higher education, employment, or entrepreneurship.
• Curriculum is a planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.
• Using suspense and making it fresh in the K-12 curriculum can be done by dropping hints about a new learning unit before revealing what it might be, leaving gaping pauses in speech, changing seating arrangements, and putting up new and relevant posters or displays.
• Making learning student-directed in the K-12 curriculum can be done by giving a student a choice of assignments on a particular topic, or asking them to design one of their own.
• Connecting the curriculum to learners' lives and to what they already know in the K-12 curriculum can be done by taking the time to brainstorm about what students already know and would like to learn about a topic, and making cross-curricular connections.