Professional Documents
Culture Documents
“The State shall take into account regional and sectoral needs
and conditions and shall encourage local planning in the
development of educational policies and programs.”
Contextualization: Bases in the PH
Curriculum framework
bio-geographical
Curriculum design
Learning Standards historical
Teaching-learning
processes
Learning resources
socio-cultural
Indicators of Contextualization
The Teacher
• Begins activities with what students already know from
home, community and school;
• Designs instructional activities that are meaningful to
students in terms of local community norms and
knowledge;
• Acquires knowledge of local norms and knowledge by
talking to students, parents or family members,
community members, and by reading pertinent
documents
Indicators of Contextualization
The Teacher
• Provides opportunities for parents or families to
participate in classroom instructional activities;
• Varies activities to include students’ preferences – from
collective and cooperative to individual and
competitive;
• Assists students to connect and apply their learning to
home and community;
Indicators of Contextualization
The Teacher
• Plans jointly with students to design community-based
learning activities; and
• Varies styles of conversation and participation to include
students’ cultural preferences, such as co-narration, call-
and-response, and choral, among others.
What instructional
practices you are
doing help you in
contextualizing
teaching and
learning?
Contextualized Teaching & Learning
Ambrose, Valerie K.; Davis, C. Amelia; Ziegler, Mary F.; and Kirwan,
Jeral (2013). "A Framework of Contextualized Teaching and
Learning: Assisting Developmental Education Instructors," Adult
Education Research Conference.
http://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2013/papers/1
Baker, E. D., Hope, L., & Karandjeff, K. (2009). Contextualized teaching
and learning: A faculty primer. Retrieved from
http://www.careerladdersproject.org/docs/CTL.pdf
Department of Education (2015). Contextualization and
Indigenization. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/lenferndz/localization-
contextualization