PEDAGOGICAL RETOOLING IN MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGES, AND SCIENCE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

(PRIMALS) for JHS

Session Title Revisiting 21st-Century Skills vis-à-vis the K to 12 Science Curriculum
Duration 1.5 hours/90 minutes
Target Participants Junior High School Science Teachers
Learning Objectives Terminal Objective:
At the end of the session, the participants are expected to achieve the mastery of 21st
century skills.

Enabling Objectives:
 identify the desired set of 21st-century skills that the K to 12 program aims to
develop in the learners;
 discuss the specific scientific reasoning and skills that the K to 12 Science
curriculum targets to enable graduates to become globally competitive; and
 relate the purpose of the K to 12 content and performance standards to the
development of learners’ scientific reasoning and skills.
References Republic Act 10533: Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
Accessed December 29, 2016.
http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/05/15/republic-act-no-10533/

Department of Education. Implementing Rules and Regulations of the K to 12

Curriculum
Accessed December 20, 2016.
http://www.deped.gov.ph/sites/default/files/order/2013/DO_s2013_43.pdf

Bishop, Joseph. “Partnership for 21st Century Skills.”

Accessed December 29, 2016.

https://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/Bishop%20Pre-Con%202.pdf

World Economic Forum 2016–2017 Global Competitiveness Report

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 Accessed December 1, 2016.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2016-2017/05FullReport/
TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2016-2017_FINAL.pdf
PPT Slide: Screenshot of Chart: WEF Stage 1–5 Ranking of Globally
Competitive Countries (2016)

Department of Education. K to 12 Curriculum Guides in Math and Science. August

2016

Methodology Key Points Tools/ Time

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Introduction: 1 minute

DO: Greet the participants. Make them

comfortable.
DO: Policy to stay awake and alive 3 3 minutes
If I say HELLO, your response is HI and
vice versa.
If I say OK, your response is ALRIGHT
If I say HEPHEP, your response is
HOORRAY!

SAY: “Good (morning/afternoon),

everyone. Welcome to a thought-
provoking seminar-workshop. Today, we’ll
have a journey together on the road to
successful learning. Let us begin by
sharing what comes to mind when we
hear the term 21st-century learning.”

DO: Ask three participants to share their

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answers with the whole group. Thank
them for sharing their thoughts.

“Many educators in different parts of the

world today talk of developing 21st-
century skills in their learners. Like other
progressive-thinking countries, the K to 12
program in the Philippines makes an
explicit claim of integrating 21st-century
skills in its instructional system. This
session revisits the topic of 21st-century
skills and discusses how these skills relate
to the teaching of Science curriculum.”

Present the Objectives Terminal Objective: 4 1 minute

At the end of the session, the participants
are expected to achieve the mastery of 21st
century skills.

Enabling Objectives:
 identify the desired set of 21 st-
century skills that the K to 12
program aims to develop in the
learners;
 discuss the specific scientific 5
reasoning and skills that the K to 12
Science curriculum targets to
enable graduates to become
globally competitive; and

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 relate the purpose of the K to 12
content and performance standards
to the development of learners’
scientific reasoning and skills.
Activity: 6 20 minutes

DO: Ask the participants to form 5 groups

SAY: “Let us now begin with an activity.

As JHS science teachers, what qualities,
traits and characteristics do you envision
to your students when they complete the
JHS level?”

DO: Distribute the materials needed (See

Annex 1).

DO: Give the instructions to the

participants that they will be creating a
two-dimensional model of their Ideal JHS
Completer, with the qualities, traits and
characteristics they think that their
students must possess when they
complete JHS level.
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DO: Tell the participants that they will be
presenting and describing their output
afterwards.
Analysis: 15 minutes

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DO: Advise participants to look at their

outputs. Ask questions like the following: 8
1. What do you feel while doing the
activity?
2. What similar traits, characteristics
and values were you able to think
that a JHS completer must
possess?
3. How are the traits, characteristics
and values really reflect to our
actual JHS completers?
4. Based from these traits and values,
what kind of teachers should we
have to teach our model JHS
students?
Abstraction: 26 minutes

SAY: “What skills must be developed by

our 21st-century learners in the K to 12
program to be globally competitive? How
will these skills help our learners?”
“Let us find out by watching the video 9
delivered by Mr. Julieven R. Abrea,
Senior Education Program Specialist,
Bureau of Learning Delivery, Teaching
and Learning Division of the DepED
Central Office.”

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Viewing Session 1
(Revisiting 21st-century skills)
Resource Person: Julieven Abrea,
PRIMALS 7-10 National Training of
Trainers
Answer: performance standards
Discussion 5 minutes
SAY: 10
1. Between performance and content Answer: Learners manifest knowledge
standards, to what can you attribute through observable performance, which
Hataman’s scientific contributions? means that learners are able to actualize
Why do you think so? 21st-century skills in order to become
successful workers or professionals in the
21st century.

Answers: Be updated about the latest

scientific findings and find ways to
encourage our learners to search for
2. In our work as 21st century Science, what scientific solutions to the problems in their
do we need to constantly do to improve community.
lesson delivery?

Application: 15 minutes

DO: Let the participants identify the 11

overview of training process. (Show a
diagram)

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DO: Advise participants to evaluate the
kind of learners for the 21st century and
the kind of teaching they are doing in
class. Ask them to reflect if their way of
teaching matches to the kinds of learners
they have. To summarize their answers,
they will complete the table provided:
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21st Century 21st Century
Learners Teacher
(How to be)

DO: Ask the participants to reflect on what

specific activities they can do to enhance
the 21st Century skills of their students and
what professional development activities
they need to do to capacitate and improve
themselves in teaching the 21st century
students/learners.

Have the participants share their answers

and other realizations.

DO: Gather the participants’ realizations 4 minutes

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and ask them if they become 21st Century
Teachers to match with our 21st Century
Learners.

Closure: Show the powerpoint slide “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be 13
DO: Read the quotation with conviction those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”

Alvin Toffler.

As Science teachers of the 21st Century

learners, though we are not born during
the 21st Century, we can still become 21st
Century teachers. We all need to do id to
continue and be willing to learn, unlearn,
and relearn.

Prepared by:

CARMEN R. LIM, PhD

Education Program Supervisor, Science

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