Curriculum Content: Description of Developmentally Appropriate Lessons

1. Traditional Preschool:
Evaluation of Developmentally
Appropriate Practices
Atienza, Bitang, Saguano, Sudario, Tandoc

2. Curriculum Content: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Lessons
KINDER C
- Lesson: Church
“What is a church?”, “What do people do in Church?” & “How are you
able to help the poor?”
- Relate own experiences (large group discussion)
- Insights on involvement in Church
- Character development
- Worksheets (Individual Seatwork)

3. Curriculum Content: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Lessons
GRADE ONE B (1B)
- subject: Filipino
- pair activities and presentation
- large group discussions
- teacher guided: whiteboard activity
- individual seatworks: worksheet folders
- routines

4. Curriculum Content: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Lessons
GRADE ONE F (1F)
Subject: Filipino
Recalling Last Week’s lesson using pictures.
Flashcards
Played a game
Worksheets
Review or Summarize the lesson

5. Curriculum Content: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Lessons
SUMMARY
- use of letter grades NE to E (needs improvement to
exceptional)
- routine practices (Kinder: 2 weeks, Grade One: 1 week)
- happy gram
- exposed to a lot of questioning
- no honors system until Grade 3
- no quarterly exam
- Xavier to China experience

6. Early Childhood Teacher: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching
KINDER
- evident firmness
- positive remarks or feedbacks
- clearly emphasized important points regarding the
topic
- consistently give reminders to students
- speaking voice is loud and clear

7. Early Childhood Teacher: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching
GRADE ONE B (1B)
- loud and clear voice
- spoke in Filipino since its the subject but used minimal
english words like “next”
- scaffolding
- gives positive feedbacks
- remind students
- uses variety of instructional materials

8. Early Childhood Teacher: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching
GRADE ONE F (1F)
Good Classroom Management
Respected by the Students
Use reinforcement

9. EC Classroom: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Environment
KINDER

10. EC Classroom: Description of
Developmentally Appropriate Environment
GRADE ONE

11. GROUP INSIGHTS
- Many factors that make an institution developmentally
appropriate for its students.
- Xavier School is indeed developmentally appropriate
because they always put the children as the main
concern in making policies and establishing rules.
- What really struck to us was how the students
demonstrated discipline.
- We all agreed that all the classrooms that we have
observed have consistent classroom management.