About the Program

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Alignment to Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers

About the Program

Schools are considered crucial institutions that foster critical thinking and awareness on issues surrounding patriotism, nationalism, and respect for history and heritage. Within the spaces of the schools, learners are exposed to different issues on culture, society, and politics from Kindergarten up until Senior High School in their Social Studies and Humanities and Social Sciences courses.

Given the changing and pressing concerns of the current political and social institutions, there is a need to sustain and strengthen the curriculum and instruction surrounding several social, civic, cultural, and political issues in today’s society. With this in mind, the Philippine Business for Education has launched the resource portal Sibika.ph. This resource portal helps young people to become informed and active citizens committed to upholding and preserving democratic institutions, values, and principles.

In particular, Sibika.ph aims to:

Provide resources on democracy and citizenship to educators and parents in the form of modules, expert videos and assessment tools;
Develop critical thinking by integrating student led exercises in the learning modules; and
Make learning relevant to the current context by encouraging class discussions on current issues and events.

The resource portal includes 17 modules on Understanding, Culture, Society and Politics (UCSP) subject that aims to be disseminated to UCSP teachers nationwide. This Regional Teacher Training Program was created for UCSP teachers, to introduce and advance the usage and adoption of the Sibika.ph resources in their UCSP classes.

Terminal Objectives

By the end of this Program, Teachers will:

Know the different resource modules that the teachers can use from Sibika.ph
Know basics of Learning Experience Design
Equip teachers with design and facilitation skills on using the Sibika.ph modules

Enabling Objectives

Through the program, Teachers will be able to:

Design a variety of learning experiences for UCSP for different contexts and modalities (Online, face-to-face, hybrid)
Select appropriate teaching strategies for adult learners
Be empowered and confident in teaching and using the Sibika.ph modules
Influences their students in thinking critically using the materials in Sibika.ph