BUFI, MA. CARIDAD A.

1-E (BSED ENGLISH)

NSTP 2: MODULE 5 - LESSON 6
ACTIVITY: A. EXPLORE
Focus on the Indigenous Cultural Community/Indigenous
People (ICC/IP) group in the Philippines.

Search for government efforts wherein cultural-sensitive

and cultural-responsive approaches are implemented in
literacy instruction, and give assessment on whether these are
effective or not. Explain.

- One effort of the government is the Department of

Education's Indigenous Peoples Education Program (IPEd),
established through DepEd Order 62, s. 2011, serves as a
testament to these efforts. This program, which celebrated its
first decade in 2021, has reached 2.5 million IP learners across
42,176 public schools. IPEd is designed to respect and promote
the identities, knowledge systems, competencies, and values
of indigenous learners. It includes initiatives such as
contextualizing lesson plans, using local languages for
teaching, involving elders as teachers, and utilizing ancestral
domains as learning spaces. It is a succesful program that
reflected in the enrollment figures, which nearly reached
prepandemic levels despite the challenges posed by COVID-
19. Additionally, it supports a culture-based curriculum,
indicating a positive trend towards inclusive education. While
direct assessment of effectiveness requires comprehensive
data analysis, the sustained enrollment and