Metro Manila College
U-Site, Brgy. Kaligayahan, Novaliches, Quezon City
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
EDUC609 – TRENDS and ISSUES in EDUCATION
Name: Dan Lhery S. Gregorious Date: 07/12/2021
NOTE: To be submitted on or before 5:00 PM of July 12, Monday
Note: Your paper will be subjected to plagiarism checking through Unicheck. A
maximum of 5% similarity index should be strictly observed.
CHOOSE THREE and ANSWER THEM COMPREHENSIVELY. PROVIDE BACK-UPS
FOR YOUR CLAIMS AND APPLY THE NECESSARY CITATIONS.
1. Offering Bridging Program is an HEI’s prerogative. If you are a school
owner or administrator, will you offer a Bridging Program and require
students with misaligned SHS track and college course to enroll? If yes,
explain your answer. If not, how then would you address the issue on
the mismatch?
If I am a school administrator I would require students from old
curriculum and those students who have misaligned strand to enroll in
the bridging program. The reason for this, the New curriculum requires
only 36 units of General Education Subject from 72 units since it was
already given to Senior High School (SHS) and another reason for those
students whom misaligned their strand is for them to catch up on what
they should have already taken during their SHS that may affect their
progress if they would not enroll bridging program. Bridging program
would help a lot especially to our students who have wrong choice of
career path during their SHS days and it is the right thing in order to
realigned them to their future careers.
2. Due to the skyrocketing number of foreign students, what
adjustments should a Filipino teacher do in his class to maintain
cultural hybridity?
Foreign exchange students is one of the trends in Education. As a
teacher who is also expecting to teach with foreign students the thing I
should do is to upgrade. Upgrade my knowledge in the different cultural
identity of my students. I should be sensitive enough on the different
cultural backgrounds of my students so that I would not nbe insensitive to
some issues their nations have. Another thing is to broaden my expertise in
order to provide the neccessary competencies they should learned. Lastly,
abling them to learn camaraderie. Despite of the differences on traditions
and cultures we should teach them that the goal of Education is to change
their attitude and one of the best that we could teach to them is ‘unity in
diversity.”
3. As an administrator, what actions will you take to address the issues
on out-of-field teaching?
As an administrator, I would gather the different HEI’s in my
community in order to assess and reorganize what is needed in my
community. Out of field teaching is stressful both for teachers and
learners. If the supply of the teachers handling that subject is normal we
may not be seing teachers teaching their non major subjects. However if I
could not rid the challenge of scarcity of certain major and the
oversupply of the other , the best thing that I could do for my teachers is
to support them. Support is very vital in the process of adjustments it
would help teachers to boost their moral and be able to be the best
teacher they could be.