The document discusses localization and contextualization in education. It defines localization as adapting the curriculum to local conditions by relating context and content to the local environment. Contextualization is presenting new subject matter in a meaningful way, using real-life examples and contexts from students' previous experiences and communities. The document provides examples of how teachers can localize and contextualize lessons by using authentic local materials, activities, interests and issues relevant to students' lives. The goal is to create a flexible, creative curriculum that is locally relevant and accommodates students' diversity.

1. LOCALIZATION AND
CONTEXTUALIZATION
17 MAY 2014

2. Objectives:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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.

3. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SING a PART of a song POPULAR
in your PLACE.

4. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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?

5. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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 ?

6. Contextualization
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• 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

7. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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)

8. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Localization and
contextualization can be done
in all subject areas
• Localization maximizes
materials that are locally
available

9. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• 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

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

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

12. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
The Big Picture

13. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

14. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
In designing activities in the classroom using authentic
materials, it is important to set the purpose first.
• Helpful questions
oHow will students interact with the
material?
oWhat will students learn?
oWhy will they learn it?

15. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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.
Sample prompts

16. Focusing on your subject, continue the following
sentence prompts:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
How? Students will
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What? in order to
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Why? so they can
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