Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII – Eastern Visayas
Division of Leyte

BULI NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Buli, Bato, Leyte

Project CALM in the New Normal: An Innovation

Title: Project CALM (Contextualization and Adaptation of Learning Materials) in

the New Normal
Goals: 1. Increase the MPS in all subject areas in a certain test or exam.
2. Enhance the learning aspect of every learners.
3. Motivate the students to read and answer the given activities.
4. Increase parent’s involvement in facilitating the learning process.
Risk Factors: Low MPS, Low motivational level, Low parent’s involvement
Objectives: 1. To increase the MPS from 52.3% to 75% and up.
2. To motivate the students to read and answer the given activities through
contextualization of learning materials.
3. To increase the parent’s involvement in facilitating the learning process.
4. To identify other supports to learners if required.
MOVs: MPS, Class Record, Activity Completion Report, Pictures

Description of the Problem:

Covid-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes not just in Philippines but also in
every corner of the world. It greatly affects the education system in every country. The
Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines extends lots of efforts to initiate and
implement a program not just to cater the needs of learners in education but also keeping
them safe. Thus, Distance Learning Delivery Modality (DLDM) exists. The said
initiative implements in Eastern Visayas which aimed to carry-out the learning process
while staying at home.
Before the start of classes, all regions are required to make and produce Self-Learning
Modules (SLMs) and/or Learner’s Modules (LMs) to be used in distance learning. But
only selected master teachers are the ones to trained to produce such modules. Hence, the
content of there module (like the situation, names, etc.) will purely based on their
locality. With that, students and parents in another locality (who use that module)
perhaps can’t fully relate to such thing. Making them bored and less motivated in reading
and answering the activities. If the student gets bored, they are unwilling to learn.
 However, the other way is observed when learners are interested (Sözer, 2005, as cited in
Gültekin & Berk, 2011). Hence, keeping their interest is the key.
The data in Table 1 are the computed scores of Buli National High School students
enrolled in the first semester of the school year 2020 – 2021 in the new normal. Based on
the computed data in the said table, Grade 7 has the lowest average MPS with 50.5,
while Grade 12 has the highest average MPS with 54.5. The average MPS from week 1 –
3 in all grade level is 52.3 which falls in average performance level. It is so far from the
mastery level of 75. Therefore, this intervention of great help to these learners.
Mean Percentage Score (MPS) Average
Grade Level
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Grade 7 50.2 50.7 50.5 50.5
Grade 8 50.4 51.5 51.3 51.1
Grade 9 51.6 50.2 52.8 51.5
Grade 10 53.9 53.1 50.3 52.4
Grade 11 52.6 53.3 54.9 53.6
Grade 12 55.8 53.5 54.3 54.5
Average 52.4 52.1 52.4 52.3
Table 1. Average MPS from Week 1 – 3 in all Grade Level
This Project Contextualization and Adaptation of Learning Materials (CALM) in the
new normal focuses on the contextualization and adaptation of the SLMs and LMs that
was made in all regions depending on the availability of the module in a certain topic.
Hence, modification in learning materials can enhance the instructional stimuli to allow
learners which leads to a better result (Gunter, Denny, & Venn, 2000). Furthermore, if
the module is contextualized and adapted, the parents will also be able to relate to what
they have read on the module because the situation will be changed something that
happened within the barangay or within the town of Bato. There will be also instances
that the situations are changed based on the student’s or parent’s daily actuations. The
teachers are also required to make their own contextualized Activity Sheets or
Worksheets.
Project Description:
Project CALM in the new normal is an initiative which mainly focused on
contextualizing and adapting the downloaded SLMs and LMs from any regions. This project
will also encourage teachers to produce their own contextualized Learners Activity Sheets
(LAS). This will ensure that both parents and students can understand and relate to their
experiences to better answer the given activities in the module and/or LAS. A week after the
implementation of this project, the subject teacher will compute the MPS in his/her subject/s
then give the result to the adviser to compute the average MPS in all subjects in each grade
level. Afterwards, the result should be submitted to the principal for further analysis and
present to all the teachers. After the deliberation, the teachers should have the brainstorming
to solve if there are still problems. An immediate implementation of this project is a must.
The result we get from this project will be of great help to further enhance and improve this
project