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BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
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OUTCOME-Based Education (OBE) is an approach in teaching which seeks to enable students to know what they can do, enables them to do what they can do and how to do it, and ensure that the students learned.
One good example is the teaching of the course Rizal, the most boring course usually rejected by teachers when assigned to them.
In 40 years that I have been in teaching and for 20 years that I have been department head of Social Sciences in different schools, it has always been a challenge for me to find ways how to teach the Rizal course in interesting ways and these approaches found their way in my book, Seeds of Freedom.
Yesterday, Iloilo Science and Technology University invited me to give a lecture to students and teachers on the “Relevance of Rizal Course in today’s society” and it is timely because I had just published my book Seeds of Freedom (the revised version) and very soon will be in circulation. Previously, this was Seeds of Revolution and more than one million copies were already published and circulated through the years.
Using the OBE way, teachers are encouraged to employ:
1. the interdisciplinary approach where the course is presented in different disciplines; Rizal viewed in psychological, socioeconomic, political, philosophical and literary approach
2. student-centered approach where the focus of the study are the students’ themselves, where there are values clarification, self-evaluation in relation to the values they imbibe in the course which they are expected to remember and apply in their lifelong journey
3. Let the students view Philippine society through Noli Me Tangere and the book El Filibusterismo in studying the possibility of bringing about change in the Philippine social moral values.
4. Through the classroom activities they will understand themselves, the Philippine society, its government and governance in relation to their study of the Philippine national hero and what lived and died for.
Seeds of Revolution evolved into Seeds of Freedom. While revolution is a means to an end, freedom is its end. In line with the much publicized, “change is coming”, more than tokhang, summary execution, death penalty or condom, the kind of revolution the country needs to effect change to better the Philippines are teachers who are touching lives, giving part of themselves; teachers who are morally laden and are teachers 24 hours a day.
Thank you for the opportunity given by ISAT-U to share my thoughts: to Professor Roger B. Galvan, head of the Social Science Department; Professor Cora Pama and the school administrators, Dr. Alejo Biton, College of Arts Sciences Dean; and Dr. Manuel A. Sanchez Jr., vice president for Academic Affairs. (delsocorrodaquila@gmail.com/PN)
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