NEEDS ANALYSIS

The Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Program is DepEd’s response to the right of
indigenous peoples (IP) to basic education that is responsive to their context, respects their identities, and
promotes the value of their indigenous knowledge, skills, and other aspects of their cultural heritage.
The IPEd Program supports the realization of the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum, which
subscribes to the following standards and principles, among others: inclusive, culture-sensitive, and
flexible enough to enable and allow schools to localize, indigenize, and enhance based on the
community’s educational and social context.
Training on Development of Lesson Exemplars and Bigbooks was conducted last 2017. The
training aims to continuously capacitated and equipped Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers with
the necessary knowledge and skills in crafting and developing IPEd learning materials
specifically the development of Bigbooks and Lesson Exemplars that contained the IKSPs of the
Indigenous People.
The developed Grade II big book entitled I FAMILIA NI DAMIAN MTB-MLE
(Ibanag). Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSPs) are local knowledge developed
over centuries of experimentation and are passed orally from generations to generation. It was
found to be an important catalyst to sustainable development due to their direct connection to
resource management and conservation.

EDMUNDO B. CAMMAGAY, JR.

EPSA II