1. 2 Guiding Principles
Selection and Organization of Content

2. 1) One guiding principle related to the
subject matter content is to observe the
following qualities in the selection and
organization of content
• Validity
• Significance
• Balance
• Self sufficiency
• Interest
• Utility
• Feasibility

3. Validity
- teach the content that is
aligned with the goals and
objectives of the basic education
curriculum.

4. Significance
- teach the content that
should respond to the needs of
the learners

5. Balance
- teach the content that includes
not only facts but also concepts
and values.
- includes cognitive skills and
affective elements.

6. Self Sufficiency
- fully and deeply covers the
essentials to avoid the “mile-
wide and inch deep”

7. Interest
- considers the interest of the
learners, their developmental
stages, cultural and ethnic
background

8. Utility
- teach the content that is
used by learners

9. Feasibility
- teach the content that is
viable and feasible.

10. 2) At the base of the structure of cognitive
subject matter content is facts. We cant do
away with facts but be sure to go beyond
facts by constructing an increasingly richer
and more sophisticated knowledge base
and by working out a process of conceptual
understanding.

11. Providing Opportunities for
Experimentation
- allow the students to experiment, and
learn by their own way

12. Emphasizing conceptual
understanding
- Integrate and correlate facts, concepts
and values in a meaningful manner.