The world is now in the “Knowledge age” where the challenge of education is to prepare learners in the information drift and rapidly changing world. Students in this age must be prepared to compete in a global economy, understand and operate complex communication and information systems, and apply higher level thinking skills to make decisions and solve problems.

The Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum (LAMC) addresses these needs. This is the rationale why Mother Tongue, Filipino and English follow a unified framework which allows easy transition from acquiring and learning one language to another.

The K12 Basic Education curriculum has five (5) components. Each component is essential to the learners’ ability to communicate effectively in a language leading them to achieve communicative competence and multiliteracies in the Mother Tongue, Filipino and English. The diagram in the shows that the heart and core of LAMC is making meaning through language and aims to develop graduates who are communicatively competent and multiliterates.

• Language is the basis of all communication and the primary instrument of thought. Thinking, learning, and language are interrelated. It is governed by rules and systems (language conventions) which are used to explore and communicate meaning.
• Language is the foundation of all human relationships
• Successful language learning involves viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and accuracy. Language learning should include a plethora of strategies and activities that helps students focus on both MEANING and ACCURACY.
• All languages are interrelated and interdependent.  Facility in the first language (L₁) strengthens and supports the learning of other languages (L₂). Acquisition of sets of skills and implicit metalinguistic knowledge in one language (common underlying proficiency or CUP) provides the base for the development of both the first language (L1) and the second language (L2)
• Language acquisition and learning is an active process that begins at birth and continues throughout life.
• Learning requires meaning. We learn when we use what we know to understand what is new. Start with what the students know; use that to introduce new concepts.
• Successful language learning involves viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and accuracy. Language learning should include a plethora of strategies and activities that helps students focus on both MEANING and ACCURACY.

 

 

 

How to Ask Questions Effectively

By Ms. Dorothy Manansala

Teacher III, Panilao Elementary School

 

 

“ I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others”.

                                                                         -Socrates

 

       Students come to school as a question mark. That’s why the art of questioning is the very  essence of  teaching.The moment a question leaps from the mouth of a child, learning begins.

The knowledge of how to construct an effective question is to facilitate learning, to initiate,

guide, and assess learning and to promote higher order thinking skills critical, analytic, evaluative.

      There are some questioning techniques that an effective teacher can utilize.

1. Redirection– a technique that increases student participation and reduces the teacher’s domination. A way to break the usual pattern of directing questions to those who  volunteer to answer being the primary participants and to those who are rarely responding or not even attending at all to the task. A single question is asked for which there are several answers.
2. Prompting– uses hints and clues to assist/help a student arrive or come up with a response

ofananswer successfully.A way to break the usual practice of calling on another student or giving away the answer if a student gives an “I don’t know” answer, a weak response or an incorrect answer

3. Probing – deals with insufficient answers and promotes reflective and critical thinking

4.Wait Time – amount of time teachers allot to students after asking a question or the time spent in waiting for students to respond.

            An effective teacher should know how to ask and know how to ask it.

By: Dorothy Manansala | Teacher III | Panilao Elementary School