Teachers Practices in Contextualizing and Localizing the Curriculum

This study aims to determine the significant relationship between the Teacher’s Practices of Curriculum Localization and Contextualization. The researchers used the descriptive survey design. The respondents were the secondary public school teachers and their students. A total of 12 teachers and 300 students from the selected public schools namely Bayabas National High School, Bonbon National High School, and Kauswagan National High School are the study’s respondents. All of the schools are located at Cagayan de Oro City. The results of the study showed that the teachers were given training on how to relate curriculum content and competencies to the social and educational context of communities they served. Citing local examples and developing instructional materials aside from those suggested in the textbook were the practices in localizing and contextualizing their lessons by as perceived by the students. Gender, age, educational qualification, and teaching experience had significant bearing on how the teachers localize and contextualize their lessons. However, the subject taught and the grade level of the learners had a significant bearing on how the teachers localize and contextualize their lesson.

Keywords: Localization and Contextualization