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- 1. SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THEPHILIPPINES Ma. Nicole Cassandra Bolanio Instructor I mncbolanio@mmsu.edu.ph
- 2. LESSON OBJECTIVES At theend of this lesson, the students should be able to: • Discuss the concept of science education; and • Identify science schools established to promote science education in the Philippines.
- 3. The Concept ofScience Education Science education focuses on teaching, learning, and understanding science. • Teaching science involves exploring pedagogical theories and models in helping teachers teach scientific concepts and processes effectively. • Learning science includes both pedagogy and the most interesting aspect, which is helping students understand and love science. • Understanding science implies developing and applying science- process skills and using science literacy in understanding the natural world and activities in everyday life.
- 4. Science Education inBasic and Tertiary Education • In basic education, science education helps students learn important concepts and facts that are related to everyday life including important skills such as process skills, critical thinking skills, and life skills. • In tertiary education, science education deals with developing students’ understanding and appreciation of science ideas and scientific works. It also focuses on the preparation of science teachers, scientists, engineers, and other professionals in various science-related fields.
- 5. Science Schools inthe Philippines Philippine Science High School System (PSHSS) • A government program for gifted students in the Philippines • A service institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) • Offers free scholarship basis for secondary course with special emphasis on subjects pertaining to the sciences
- 6. Science Schools inthe Philippines Special Science Elementary Schools (SSES) Project • started in June 2007 with 57 (or 60 since its inception) identified elementary schools that participated or were identified as science elementary schools in the country. • aims to develop Filipino children equipped with scientific and technological knowledge, skills, and values. Its mission is to: • provide a learning environment to science-inclined children through a special curriculum that recognizes the multiple intelligences of the learners; • promote the development of lifelong learning skills; and • foster the holistic development of the learners.
- 7. Science Schools inthe Philippines Quezon City Regional Science High School • The school envisions to serve as a venue in providing maximum opportunities for science-gifted students to develop spirit of inquiry and creativity. • The focus of its curriculum is on science and technology. • It is well-supported by the local government unit and by the Parents and Teachers Association (PTA).
- 8. Science Schools inthe Philippines Manila Science High School • It is the first science high school in the Philippines. • It aims to produce scientists with souls. • The organization and curriculum of the school puts more emphasis on science and mathematics. • The school administers an entrance exam, the Manila Science High School Admission Test (MSAT), for students who wish to enroll. • MSAT has five parts: aptitude in science, aptitude test in mathematics, problem-solving test in science, problem solving test in mathematics, and proficiency in English.
- 9. Science Schools inthe Philippines Central Visayan Institute Foundation • It is the home and pioneer of the prominent school-based innovation known as the Dynamic Learning Program (DLP). • DLP is a synthesis of classical and modern pedagogical theories adapted to foster the highest level of learning, creativity, and productivity. • The school takes pride in its Research Center for Theoretical Physics (RCTP).
- 10. SCIENCE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FORBASIC EDUCATION Science is important to everyone. School science education should support the development of scientific literacy in all students as well as motivate them to pursue careers in science, technology, and engineering • These statements were drawn from a series of consultation meetings and focus group discussions with different sectors of society held in 2006: industry, university, scientists, parents, teachers, school administrators, community leaders, media, students, and many others.
- 11. Importance of theSchool Science Education • Its links to technology and industry, which, from a national perspective, are areas of high priority for development. • Science provides ways of making sense of the world systematically. • It develops students’ scientific inquiry skills, values and attitudes, such as objectivity, curiosity, and honesty and habits of mind including critical thinking. • All these are useful to the individual student for his own personal development, future career, and life in general. These skills, values, attitudes, and dispositions are likewise useful to the community that an individual student belongs to, and are further useful to the country that he lives in. • For the nation’s cultural development and preservation of its cultural identity. • Science is most useful to a nation when it is utilized to solve its own problems and challenges, keeping a nation's cultural uniqueness and peculiarities intact. Thus, in many countries, science teaching and learning is linked with culture.
- 12. Challenges in ScienceEducation: Philippines Context • Poor performance of Filipino students in international assessment studies and national assessment studies • Low retention of concepts, have limited reasoning and analytical skills, and poor communication skills (UP NISMED, 2004). • Cannot apply concepts to real-life problem solving situations nor design an investigation to solve a problem (UP NISMED, 2005).
- 13. Challenges in ScienceEducation: Philippines Context • Factors behind the low performance in science of Filipino students • quality of teachers, the teaching-learning process, the school curriculum, instructional materials, and administrative support (DOST-SEI, 2006)
- 14. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 1. Science is for everyone. • It recognizes the proactive relationship between science and society. This means putting science into the service of individuals and society. • Science education should aim for scientific literacy that is operational in understanding oneself, common human welfare, social, and civic affairs. • Science should permeate all levels of society. Whether or not students pursue a university education, they should leave school with a level of understanding and scientific literacy that will prepare them to be informed and participative citizens who are able to make judgments and decisions regarding science applications that may have social, health, or environmental impacts.
- 15. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 2. Science is both content and process. • Science content and science process are intertwined. The value of science processes is to advance content or the body of knowledge. Without content, students will have difficulty utilizing the science process skills. Science processes cannot exist in a vacuum. They are learned in context.
- 16. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 3. School science should emphasize depth rather breadth, coherence rather than fragmentation, and use of evidence in constructing explanation.
- 17. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 4. School science should be relevant and useful. • To be relevant and useful, the teaching of science should be organized around situations, problems or projects that engage the students both as an individual and a member of a team.
- 18. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 5. School science should nurture interest in learning. • Students are generally interested in problems that puzzle them. They have a natural urge to find solutions. Organizing the curriculum around problems or phenomena that puzzle students helps motivate them to learn. • Rather than relying solely on textbooks, teachers are encouraged to use hands-on learning activities to develop students’ interest and let them become active learners.
- 19. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 6. School science should demonstrate a commitment to the development of a culture of science. • A culture of science is characterized by excellence, integrity, hard work, and discipline.
- 20. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 7. School science should promote the strong link between science and technology, including indigenous technology.
- 21. The Guiding Principlesof Science Curriculum Framework 8. School science should recognize that science and technology reflect, influence, and shape our culture. • The science curriculum should recognize the place of science and technology in everyday human affairs. It should integrate science and technology in the civic, personal, social, economic, and the values and ethical aspects of life
- 22. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION overall structure for organizing learning and teaching
- 23. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION This Framework is organized around three interlocking components namely: (1) inquiry skills, (2) scientific attitudes, and (3) content and connections.
- 24. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION its basic purpose is to provide a structure around incorporating coherent learning activities and experiences that prepare students to become scientifically literate in a dynamic, rapidly changing, and increasingly technological society
- 25. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION The Core Content: • describes the major science concepts that all students are expected to learn to become scientifically literate as well as the competencies that indicate what students should be able to do and demonstrate at the end of Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 8 and Grade 10
- 26. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION Two Key Features: • its focus on the cohesiveness of the three components • its Grade 1 to Grade 10 approach • Students in each grade level learn about the three content areas (life science, physical science, and earth and space science) in one school year
- 27. SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FORPHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION Three Overarching Themes: • maintaining good health and living safely; • utilizing energy and coping with changes; • conserving and protecting the environment.