K-12 Curriculum

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Concepts from the K-12 Curriculum This study is pursuant to Republic Act No. 10533, otherwise known as the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013,” Section 10.2 (d) and (h) mandating that “the curriculum shall be contextualized and global” and “the curriculum shall be flexible enough to enable and allow schools to localize, indigenize and enhance the same based on their respective educational and social contexts” and Section10.3 which correspondingly states, “the production and development of locally produced teaching and learning materials shall be encouraged”, where it leans towards creating teaching-learning materials utilizing Cordillera folksongs for contextualization, localization and indigenization as it promotes the Department of Education’s…show more content…
Contextualization and localization form a part of the foundation of the K-12 curriculum and aid in attaining the goal of quality education. Contextualization is developing new skills, knowledge, abilities and attitudes in students in presenting new subject matter in a meaningful and relevant context. Localization on the other hand by Taylor (2004) is “…freedom for schools or local education authorities to adopt this curriculum to local conditions,” and “relating the content of the curriculum and the processes of teaching and learning to the local environment”. It is established on local needs and relevance to the learners where flexibility and creativity are present in the lessons. As argued by Tomlinson and Masahura (2004), the advantages of contextualizing and localizing the curriculum are cultural sensitivity, potential for personalization, accessibility of resources, direct relevance of materials to learners, and ownership of the development…show more content…
For example, in Ibaloi music which follows just one style, the bacdiw (sometimes called bahdiw), it is sung alternately by different people phrase per phrase and re-echoed by the asbayat of the women. Thus, by utilizing Cordillera folk songs to enhance the teaching – learning activities in the classroom through singing, interpretation, and analysis, the students’ capabilities in singing, narrating, depicting through role play the culture and tradition as depicted by the Cordillerans through their folk songs will be developed. Students’ skills creativity, analytical and critical thinking can be developed through the singing of Cordillera folk songs. They can learn how to love the song because this will bring out the best in them through the expression of their feelings, thoughts and ideas. Likewise, the value of music education has an achieving goal; it states that “every course in music, including performance courses should provide instruction in creating, performing, listening to and analyzing music in addition to focusing on its specific subject matter.” (National Association for Music Education states in the National Standard for Arts Education, Leeman,
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