MODULE 1 LEARNING

PLANS IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE 21 ST

CENTURY
By: Famela C. Navarro & Miazel S. Soriano
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of the Module, the students should have:
1. Discussed the role of technology and learning in the light of the K to 12
Curriculum framework.
2. Reviewd the K to 12 Curriclum Guide focusing on the development of
21st century skills.
3. Reviewed learning plans from various sources that integrated ICT’s in
the teaching-learning process.
4. Planned activities integrating ICT’s that would facilitate the development
of 21st century skills required in the curriculum guide.
5. Brainstormed about digital citizenship and related this to the
development of 21st century skills among learners.
 INTRODUCTION
The basic education curriculum of the country
was enhanced with the implementation of the K to
12 Curriculum.
The implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum is
expected to contribute to the country’s
development in various forms. It is believed to be
necessary to improve the quality of our education
is critical to our progress as a nation.
 INTRODUCTION
One of the features of the K to 12 curriculum is the
requirement to equip every graduate with the
following skills:
• Information, media, and technology skills
• Learning and innovation skills
• Effective communication skills
• Life and career skills
 INTRODUCTION
 The development of these skills can be done
with the aid of technologies for teaching and
learning.
 This course aims to present activities that will
prepare pre-service teachers to integrate ICT’s
in the teaching-learning processes in the
various fields of specialization.
 Lesson 1:
The k to 12 Curriculum Framework
Lesson Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
1.Discuss the salient features of the K to 12 curriculum
requiring ICT-pedagogy intergration skills.
2.Analyze the learning competencies of every year level
according to the field of specialization of the pre-service
teachers.
3.Review some units in the curriculum guide with focus on
the development of 21st century skills.
EXPLORE
 The implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum of the
Department of Education paved the way for the
enhancement of the Teacher education Curriculum
of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
 The salient features of the K to 12 Curriculum have
been thoroughly considered to ensure that all the
courses in the teacher education program will meet
the demands of the 21st century classrooms.
1. Strengthen Early Childhood Education
(Universal Kindergarten)
 With the Universal Kindergarten program of the DepEd,
every Filipino child is expected to have access to early
childhood Education.
 The use of technology in Kindergarten by various schools is
very evident in teaching the kindergarten pupils the
alphabet, numbers, shapes, and colors through games,
songs, and dances in their Mother Tongue.
2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to learners
(Contextualization and Enhancement)
• Research shows that learners will value a curriculum that is relevant to
their lives.
• Students are often heard saying “Do I need to know these to live a
meaningful life?” , How will I use this lesson in the actual workplace?” ,
“What is the relevance of this to me?” , and so on.
• Sara Bernard (2010) stressed that students need to have a personal
connection to a lesson material that can be done through engaging them
emotionally or through connecting information with that which they
already know.
• This she calls “Give it Context and Make it Count”.
2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to learners
(Contextualization and Enhancement)
Briggs (2014) shared some few tips for making learning engaging
and personally relevant as cited by Willis, Faeth, and Immordino-
Yang:
• Use suspense and keep it fresh
• Make it student-directed
• Connect it to their lives and to what they already know
• Provide utility value
• Build relatedness
3. Building Proficiency (Mother-tounge Based
Multilingual Education)
• To be able to promote the child's dominant language and to
use it as a language of instruction, maximum use of
technological tools is highly encouraged.
• Mother tongue is used in instruction and learning materials of
other learning areas.
• Children learn better and are more active in class and learn a
second language even faster when they are first taught in a
language they understand.
4. Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning
(Spiral Progression)

• Learning basic concepts that lsas to a more complex

entail TPACK: technological knowledge, pedagogical
knowledge, and content knowledge.
• Rediscovering concepts previously presented as
students go up in grade level will be fully supported if
all the areas of specialization will be aided by
technologies for teaching and learning.
5. Gearing Up for the Future
• The K to 12 curriculum ensures college readiness by aligning
the core and applied courses to the College Readiness
Standards (CRS) and the General Education (GE) curriculum.
• The K to 12 curriculum focused on developing appropriate
specialization subjects.
• All of these specialization subjects have to be supported by
educational technology for the better learning.
6. Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino
College and Livelihood Readiness 21st Century
Skills
• To nurture holistically developed Filipino, every K to 12
graduate is expected to be ready to go into different paths.
• Every graduate is expected to be equipped with information,
media and technology skills, learning and innovation skills,
effective communication skills, and life and career skills.
• For teachers to maintain excellent performance, they need full
support, one of each is technological supports.
 Teachers and Curriculum
• Teachers play a very important role in the
facilitation of student learning by designing,
implementing, and evaluating the curriculum.
• Teachers are expected to actively engage
themselves in curriculum design.
• Teachers make decisions about how they will
implement the curriculum of their specific field of
specialization.
The following are points to consider in identifying and
understanding teacher’s roles as curriculum
designers:
• Better teachers support better learning because they are most
knowledgeable about the practice of teaching and are responsible for
introducing the curriculum in the classroom (Alsubaie, 2016).
• Curriculum is the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content,
materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of
educational objectives (Jadhav & Patankar, 2013).
• The curriculum process provides an opportunity for teachers to be creative
and put their unique stamp on the classroom experience (Meier, 2018).
• Teachers, on their part, have practical knowledge based on their daily
work with students. This knowledge is useful to curriculum committees
because teachers can assess whether the ideas being develop will work in
the classroom (Young, 1988).
END OF MODULE 1