LOCALIZATION AND

CONTEXTUALIZATION
Objectives:

In this learning session, the participants should be

able to:
1. gain functional and operational understanding of
localization and contextualization in the BEP;
2. identify ways on how the curriculum and/or subject
could be localized/contextualized;
3. express appreciation of the need to adapt to the
learners’ diversity through contextualization.

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SING a PART of a song POPULAR
in your PLACE.

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1. How did you find the activity?
2. What helped you appreciate the
songs?
3. How did you react to the
presentation of the group?
4. What difficulties would you find if
you were asked to sing the song
with them?
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5. How would you treat those difficulties?
6. What is this telling us about the way
lessons should be taught?
7. How is this similar to teaching in the
classroom?
8. What have you realized in this activity
as a teacher ?

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Contextualization

• Developing new skills, knowledge,

abilities, and attitudes in students
presenting new subject matter in
meaningful and relevant context:
context of previous experience,
real-life and workplace

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Localization

• Freedom for schools or local

authorities to adapt the
curriculum to local conditions and
relating the context of the
curriculum and the process of
teaching and learning to the local
environment...(Taylor 2004)
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• Localization and contextualization can be
done in all subject areas

• Localization maximizes materials that are

locally available

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• To contextualize, teachers use authentic
materials, activities, interests, issues,
and needs from learners’ lives

• Should create rooms for students to

pose problems and issues and develop
strategies together for addressing them

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• The localized or contextualized
curriculum is based on local
needs and relevance for the
learners where there is flexibility
and creativity in the lessons.

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• Tailor-fit the lesson
• Build on what they already have
• Accommodate and respect
cultural, linguistic, and racial
diversity

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The Big Picture

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In designing activities in the classroom using authentic
materials, it is important to set the purpose first.

• Helpful questions
o How will students interact with the
material?
o What will students learn?
o Why will they learn it?

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 Sample prompts

How? Take a picture of an arch - shaped

object in your locality.

What? in order to identify the axis of

symmetry

Why? so they can appreciate the role that

math played in architecture in their place.

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Focusing on your subject, continue the following
sentence prompts:
How? Students will
__________________

What? in order to
_____________________

Why? so they can

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