Unit 3: Guiding Principles in Teaching Araling Panlipunan
Learning Outcome
1. Cite concrete applications of the Guiding Principles of Araling Panlipunan.
Effective teaching of Araling Panlipunan is characterized as Meaningful, Active, Value-based, Integrative, and Challenging (MAVIC).
Guiding Principles in Teaching Araling Panlipunan
1. Meaningful
It is meaningful when students see the relevance and connection of their lesson to their lives because it has real – world application. It also becomes meaningful when students are challenged to use disciplined inquiry or use high – order thinking skills to construct meaning. It is meaningful when learning is authentic.
2. Active
It requires students to process and think about what they are learning. Active learning is "hands-on- minds-on-hearts-on". Students work individually or collaboratively, using rich and varied sources, to reach understandings, make decisions, discuss issues and solve problems. Students interact teachers by asking and answering questions as teachers explain. Students also interact with learning materials.
3. Value – based
A powerful and effective AP teaching is value driven because its intended outcomes the development of the mamayang mapanagutan, makalikasan, makabansa at makatao. Students learn democracy by experiencing democracy right there in the classroom. It’s lessons are replete with value – laden concerns and issues where students listen to competing arguments, assess the merits of competing arguments and make informed and value- based decisions.
4. Integrative
The subject itself is an integration of several interrelated disciplines – history, economics, geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, archeology and psychology. It is sensitive to and integrates multiple intelligences and learning styles of students. It integrates cognitive skills required in other disciplines as it provides opportunities for students to conduct inquiry, develop and display data, synthesize findings, and make judgments.
5. Challenging
Learning task should neither be too easy to bore the students nor too difficult to discourage them. AP teachers should know their students more than anything else and so are in the best position to determine when the learning task are neither too easy nor too difficult