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Mr. Felix Famaran, the Education Program Supervisor in English of Calapan Division
started his discussion about Unpacking the English language Arts Level Standards thru
Clueless No More
thought provoking questions after stating his objectives that enabled the participants to
activate their schema on February 11, 2019, day 1 of the Regional Training of Teachers on
Pedagogical Retooling in Mathematics, Language and Science (PRIMALS plus JHS) at
the Grand Ballroom of Country Club Hotel, Tagaytay City.
A total of 51 participants coming Stage Standards. With the expertise of the part of
from the MIMAROPA region (divided the speaker, the participants were en- the teachers
into five groups) benefitted from the lightened and their perplexities were but most
activities and lectures provided by settled. importantly
Famaran. The teachers were refreshed To concretize the learnings, to the
about the meaning of Program Stand- Famaran gave an activity that allowed learners as Caption describing picture or
ards, Key Stage Standards, Content teachers to apply what they have they equip graphic.
Standards, Performance Standards and learned. Using the revised Bloom’s the latter of
Learning Competencies and their sig- Taxonomy of Cognitive Skills and the 21st
nificance as to why teachers must Competency Level, the Knowledge, century skills relevant to achieving the
know how and when to unpack the said Understanding and Do (K-U-D) frame- vision of the department of education.
standards. These key terms were as- works, the teachers were guided ac- He ended his talk with the quota-
signed to Carnation, Rosal, Sunflower, cordingly as to how they could unpack tion of W. James Popham, “Teachers
Lilac, and Orchid groups, respectively. learning competencies deemed neces- who truly understand what they want
“You should unpack the standards sary based on the readiness of the stu- their students to accomplish will al-
which are too broad,” was uttered by dents to learn a specific competency. most surely be more instructionally
Famaran as he tried to make his topic It is expected from the teachers successful than teachers whose under-
more comprehensible for confusion that upon returning to their stations, standing of hoped – for students ac-
and uncertainties came up on the part teaching and learning process would complishments are murky.”
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