Name: RICHEL R.

FLORES MAEE 112 Student

Write an essay explaining the contextualization of the curriculum and cite some examples
based on what you did in your class.

Contextualization of curriculum refers to the educational process of relating the curriculum to

a particular setting, situation or area of application to make the competencies relevant,
meaningful and useful to all learners.
The contextualization of curriculum is an accordance on the Enhanced Basic Education Act
of 2003 (R.A. 10533 Sec. 2 (c). It states that make education learner oriented and responsive
to the needs, cognitive and cultural capacity, the circumstances and diversity of learners,
schools and communities through the appropriate languages of teaching and learning,
including mother tongue as a learning resource. Inclusion to this republic act the K to 12
curriculum uses spiral progression approach to ensure mastery, flexible enough to enable and
allow schools to localize, indigenize and enhance the same based on their respective
educational and social contexts. The production and development of locally produced
teaching materials shall be encouraged and approval of these materials shall devolve to the
regional and division units.
Moreover, the features of the k to 12 curriculum focuses on culture responsive and culture-
sensitive, integrative and contextualized relevant and responsive. We contextualized the
curriculum and the use of learning materials in terms of geography, cultural diversity and
individuality. It helps teachers and learners comprehend concepts by relating and presenting
lesson on the context of prevailing local environment, culture and resources. When we
contextualized our lesson, it should be learner-centered, outcomes based and knowledge
producers.
In addition to, school cannot stand without the help of the community. When we
contextualized the curriculum, school will need to have a continuing dialogue with the
community. We, teachers will need to be immersed in the community of our learners.
In my class, I contextualized my lessons through giving of examples that are present in the
community. For example, in this competency, visualizes and adds the following numbers
using appropriate techniques: a. two one-digit numbers with sums up to 18. I used concrete
examples like makopa instead of using apple to show how to add numbers.
For grade 1 learners they can easily comprehend the lesson if they seen real objects. I used
real objects that can be seen in the community. Instead using an apple, I used makopa for my
lesson. Also, when giving a situation I uses the names of my learners for me to catch their
attention and for them to participate in my class. Contextualization is very observable in
lower grades (kinder to grade 3) because we are using MTB (Mother Tongue Based) as a
medium of instruction.
We should always put in mind that when we contextualized our lesson we should not
translate literally, we must focus on real meaning of what we contextualized, we consider the
experiences of our learners, we use situations appropriate to the learners age, linguistics and
cultural heritage, we consider that our learners are diverse, and also, we use example
materials that are available in the locality and real scene.