Curriculum Implementation and Support

Community as the Curriculum Resources and a Learning Environment

• The community is considered an extended school ground, providing a learning environment for children.
• The community's rich natural and human resources can assist in educating children.
• The school and community are interconnected, with the community reflecting the school's influence and the school reflecting the community's support.

Stakeholders in Curriculum Implementation and Development

• Government agencies (DepEd, TESDA, CHED) have regulatory and mandatory authorities over curriculum implementation.
• These agencies provide material support, such as supplies and equipment, and human support, including training for teachers.

Implementing a Curriculum

• Time is essential for successful curriculum implementation, with a suggested period of 3-5 years for institutionalization.
• Support from peers, principals, and external stakeholders is crucial for successful implementation.
• Teachers should share ideas, work together, and solve problems to ensure successful implementation.

Levels of Knowledge

• Factual knowledge: ideas, specific data, or information.
• Conceptual knowledge: interrelated facts, concepts, and common features.
• Procedural knowledge: step-by-step actions, methods of inquiry.
• Metacognitive knowledge: awareness of one's own cognition, thinking about thinking.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

• ILOs should be written in a SMART way: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Result-oriented, and Time-bound.
• ILOs should be matched with appropriate teaching methods.

Teaching Methods and Strategies

• The CONE OF LEARNING suggests that learning retention rates vary based on the method of instruction:
  • Reading: 10%
  • Hearing: 20%
  • Seeing: 30%
  • Hearing and Seeing: 50%
  • Saying: 70%
  • Saying and Doing: 90%
• Teachers should choose instructional support materials based on learning styles and outcomes to be achieved.

Instructional Support Materials

• Direct purposeful experience (e.g., field trips, practice teaching) retains almost all learning outcomes.
• Participation in class activities (e.g., discussion, reporting) retains around 70% of learning.
• Passive participation (e.g., watching a movie, viewing exhibit) retains around 50% of learning.
• Non-projected media (e.g., real objects, models, printed materials) and projected media (e.g., overhead transparencies, slides) can be used to support instruction.

Factors in Technology Selection

• Practicality: Is the equipment or lesson material available?
• Appropriateness: Is the medium suitable for the learners' ability to comprehend?
• Activity/suitability: Does the medium fit the instructional event?
• Objective-matching: Does the medium help achieve the learning objective(s)?