ASEAN 2015

By: Sr. Iluminada C.

Coronel, FMM.

1. What is it all about?

ASEAN, the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations

Three Pilars for ASEAN

Community
Political Security
Economic Community
Socio Cultural
Community

ASEAN Economic
Community is what we are
waiting for in 2015.
Single
market
and
production
base
where
there will be a free flow of
goods, capital, services,
and skilled labor. The last
two will exert increasingly
greater pressure on our

2. How do we
educators prepare
ourselves
Our educational
quality has to catch up
with that of other
ASEAN nations.

It must be Outcomes
Based,
Learner
Centered.
K-12
is
planned to make our
Grade
12
graduates
comparable to those of
other ASEAN countries. A
study of K-12 will show it

A
qualifications
Framework
is
being
made by each country
- standards and levels
of outcome that must be
satisfied at each level of
education
of
each
individual.

- items of the Q.F. have

equiva- lencies in other
Q.F.s, and with the
A.Q.F. in particular.
Purpose - enable skilled
workers
and
professionals to move
from one country to
another bringing their

Recommendation - get
a copy of the book A
World Class Education
by Dr. Vivien Stewart or
her Paper - Gearing Up
for Global
Competitiveness:
Education reform and

MRA - Mutual
Recognition
Agreements

3. How do we help
prepare our students by challenging them to
aim for excellence. In
FOCUS,
Mike
Schmoker explains how
we can achieve high
level of learning.

What is essential for

schools?
1. reasonably coherent
curriculum
2. sound lessons
3. purposeful reading

To
improve,
Mike
wants schools to focus
on the essentials and
ignore
the
fads,
programs
and
innovations that prevent
us from focusing on the
essentials
1. What we teach: like in

2. How we teach:
a. The lesson must have
a clear objective like;
Find the sum of two
mixed numbers.
b. Use an interactive
lecture
and
direct
teaching
in
small

c.

Check
understanding

for

d. Continue with another

segment of the lesson.
3. Authentic
literacy
make students explain,
argue,
reason
out,

Thank
You