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Curriculum serves as the backbone of learning. Without it, learning would not happen, and schools would be irrelevant. 

With the role played by the curriculum in all learning institutions, it shall be contextually and locally adapted. As highlighted in the K to 12 curriculum, classroom experiences need to be significant and purposefully meaningful to the lives of learners. This is one of the best ways to impact learning. 

In the past, education does not seem to compete with time and progress. But right now, it has to be in the trendline because learning styles, preferences, interests, and needs are changing. With the maximal underscoring of 21st century education, we tend to be too affected which urges us to adapt. Such event led the department to propose for localization of lessons to make it flexible, fit, relevant, meaningful, and valuable to the students. 

What role should a teacher play? 

Localization is the process of connecting the curriculum content to local knowledge and materials from the learnerโ€™s community. Localization involves tailor-fitting teaching techniques and materials to the learnerโ€™s knowledge level and experiences. Through this, teachers are able to address the gap of limited participation and interaction. 

Since not all teachers are from the same community where the school is situated, he/she has to cope by learning its local language (dialect), culture, traditions, and norms. There is no substitute to the effectiveness of community immersion. Having these learned, localization becomes a piece of cake for teachers. 


A realization is that

As we wish to improve the quality of learning, it is valuable to make use of our own and put the learners as the center of teaching and curriculum implementation. As the clichรฉ says, โ€œTangkilikin ang sariling atin,โ€ the Philippine education system has a lot to do to improve its curricular delivery, but in the positive light that these can all be achieved by taking one step at a time; hoping it will be at par with the world in terms of educational quality.


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