Welcome to PED 2
Class!
Sharing Time…
What is an integrated
curriculum?
•What is the benefit of an
integrated curriculum?
Why do these integrations clearly
reflect the transformative process?
What can you say about the following?
• Project-based Learning
• Service Learning.
• Learning Centers/Parallel Disciplines
• Theme-Based
• Fusion
1. Project-based Learning. It engages students
in creating knowledge while enhancing their
skills in critical thinking, creativity, collaboration,
communication, reasoning, synthesis and
resilience (Barron and Darling-Hammond, 2008
in corpus, 2014).
• Service Learning. It refers to learning that actively
involves students in a wide range of experiences, which
often benefit others and the community, while also
advancing the goals of a given curriculum. Community-
based service activities are paired with structured
preparation and student reflection
• Learning Centers/Parallel Disciplines. A
popular way to integrate the curriculum is to
address a topic or theme through the lenses
of several subject areas.
Theme-Based. Some teachers go beyond
sequencing content and plan collaboratively and
they do it in a more intensive way of working with
a theme dubbed as “theme-based.” Often, three or
more subject area are involved in the study, and the
units end with an integrated culminating activity.
• Fusion. In this method, teachers fuse skills,
knowledge, or even attitudes into the regular
school curriculum. In some schools, students
learn respect for the environment in every subject
area or some incorporate values across
disciplines.
•Do you agree that school is
responsible for the social
formation among students? Why?
• The school is a social institution established for the
contemplation of reality in a profound, personal, informal
and unstructured way. Teachers facilitate learning, teach
students and model certain types of acceptable behavior
while developing them in all aspects: academically,
physically, emotionally and socially. In performing such
tasks, teachers also relate to parents and other
stakeholders. That is why understanding and attaining
social literacy is imperative among them.
SOCIAL
LITERACY
Social literacy entails the development of social skills,
knowledge and positive human values toward desire and
ability in human beings to act and react positively and
responsibly in a wide range of complex social settings. It can
be acquired through social process of inquiry, values
exploration and social decision-making that relate to the
acquisition of knowledge and understanding (Arthur,
Davison and Stow, 2000).
What do you think is the reason
why schools need to have social
literacy?
• Social skills are aspects of social literacy. As
such, these are an integral part of functioning in
society. It involves good manners,
communicating effectively with others, being
considerate of others’ feelings and expressing
personal needs.
• Social skills are also important in schools
because they help build, maintain and grow
relationships of students with classmates, peers,
teachers, students, and others, while for teachers,
with their superiors, colleagues, parents, students
and others.
These can be attained through:
• (1) gaining ideas, information, techniques and perspectives from people with
different areas of expertise;
• (2) providing their own perspective for the benefit of others;
• (3) accomplishing tasks and working together toward shared goal;
• (4) providing mutual support for difficult situations;
• (5) expanding network to learn about and pursue new opportunities;
• (6) gaining feedback and referrals from people who can personally attest to
work, skills and qualities; and
• (7) making the school truly a healthy and conducive learning environment.
Types of Social Skills
There are types of social skills that teachers can demonstrate among
students to attain a harmonious relationship with them.
• Effective communication
It is the ability to communicate effectively and share thoughts
and ideas with students through group conversations, discussions,
etc.
• Conflict Resolution.
It is the ability to get to the source of the problem and find a
workable solution by weighing both sides from those involved with
the goal of mediating for reconciliation.
• Active Listening.
It is the ability to pay close attention to a student in times of
counseling, introspection and consultation.
• Empathy.
It is the ability to understand and identify the feelings of students
in times of difficulty and trouble.
• Relationship Engagement.
It is the ability to maintain relationships and build key
connections with school stakeholders for the student’s development.
• Respect.
It can be done by knowing when to initiate communication
and respond during interactions or even in times of heated arguments and
confrontations.
• Problem- solving skills.
These involve seeking help, making effective decisions and
accepting consequences to derive better solutions to the problem.
• Interpersonal skills.
These include the abilities of sharing, joining activities,
asking for permission and waiting for one’s turn in every facet of school
undertaking.
As a future teacher,
how can you improve
social skills among
your students?
• Social skills can be improved by focusing on
sustaining desirable attitudes and eliminating
those undesirable ones through modeling,
role-playing and performance feedback
mechanisms.
Another suggestions to improve social skills:
• In addition, one may consider;
(1) maintaining eye contact;
(2) using proper body language;
(3) knowing the difference of being assertive and being aggressive;
(4) selecting effective communication channels;
(5) being flexible;
(6) accepting criticism without being defensive;
(7) remaining positive at all times; and
(8) being teachable and a good student in most instances
Likewise, other ways that may help are as follows:
(1)Behave as a social person;
(2)Start small if necessary;
(3)Ask open-ended questions;
(4)encourage others to talk about themselves;
(5)Create goals for yourself;
(6)Offer compliments generously;
(7)Read books about social skills;
(8) Practice good manners;
(9) Pay attention to your body language;
(10) Join a social skills support group;
(11) Stay up to date in current events; and
(12) Identify and replace negative thoughts
What is the impact of Social Skills?
Possessing social skills results to:
(1)better relationships;
(2)better communication;
(3) greater efficiency;
(4)advanced career prospects; and
(5)increased over-all happiness.
Questions to Ponder!
• In your own perspective, what is social literacy?
• Why is social literacy relevant to be taught to students?
• When can you say that social literacy in school is well-taught?
• What will likely happen if schools don’t give importance on
social literacy?
Questions to Ponder!
• What to you is the greatest impact
of social literacy in the society as a
whole?
