Domain 3-Onboarding Session 1-Curriculum Contextualization Quiz

During a division-led audit, you are asked which policy concretely encourages teachers to adapt curriculum content to learners’ context while maintaining national standards. As you review your policy binder and the session notes on contextualization, localization, and indigenization, you recall that one DepEd Order explicitly offers guidance for making lessons culturally responsive and locally meaningful while still aligned with competencies. Which issuance best fits this description?

• DepEd Order No. 42, s. 2017

• DepEd Order No. 32, s. 2015

• DepEd Order No. 35, s. 2016

• DepEd Order No. 62, s. 2011

In presenting the basis for curriculum flexibility to your School Governing Council, you explain that a national law supports localized implementation of the curriculum to better reflect learner diversity and community contexts. You emphasize that this law underpins school-level adaptations that still meet national standards and learning outcomes. Which law are you referring to?

• RA 9155

• RA 10533

• RA 10687

• RA 10157

You notice in your academic performance dashboard that Grade 4 Science ends with basic plant life cycles and Grade 5 begins with ecosystem interactions, gradually increasing complexity. You want to label this effort accurately in your school improvement plan to reflect strengthening of skill progression across grades over time. What type of curriculum alignment is primarily demonstrated?

• Diagonal Alignment

• Horizontal Alignment

• Vertical Alignment

• Spiral Alignment

In a reading enrichment program, your English teachers incorporate familiar folk songs and local stories to build vocabulary and fluency. They do not change the curriculum standards but choose materials that resonate with learners’ daily lives and culture. Which degree of contextualization is primarily used?

• Localization

• Indigenization

• Globalization

• Standardization

In a lesson design clinic, a teacher proposes surveying learners’ interests and home responsibilities to generate examples and tasks that match their lived experiences. The plan centers on making instruction responsive to what learners already know and value. Which key principle of contextualization does this practice highlight?

• Local Relevance

• Learner-Centered Approach

• Integration of Indigenous Knowledge

• Alignment with Standards

To elevate classroom practice, you schedule a Learning Action Cell (LAC) series on crafting contextualized lesson plans, integrating career awareness, and optimizing local resources. This initiative is documented in your professional development plan for teachers. Which support strategy are you primarily implementing?

• Career Exploration

• Teacher Professional Development

• Community Resource Utilization

• Monitoring and Mentoring

During a curriculum mapping workshop, department heads make sure Grade 7 teachers in different sections target the same standards and use coherent assessments within that grade level. The focus is on consistency within one grade. What is this alignment called?

• Connecting lessons across grade levels

• Connecting lessons within the same grade level

• Linking curriculum to career pathways

• Integrating indigenous knowledge into lessons

As part of your school’s career awareness thrust in the elementary grades, you want learners to see real people doing real work that connects to what they study. You are choosing among several activities that can spark interest and show relevance without overhauling the curriculum. Which option most directly supports this aim?

• Assigning advanced algebra problems

• Inviting local professionals to share their work

• Conducting a national achievement test

• Giving standardized reading drills

You are drafting the vision statement for curriculum implementation and plan to integrate local culture, use mother tongue strategically, and involve community leaders in instruction. You also intend to maintain alignment with national standards while using relatable examples from daily life. Which overarching approach encapsulates these practices?

• Standardization

• Contextualization

• Globalization

• Differentiation

In Math, a teacher plans to explain the concept of ratios by referencing traditional farm work where a carabao hauls a certain number of sacks of corn, a practice common in the community. The teacher’s goal is to match an abstract concept with a culturally rooted example. Which practice is best illustrated?

• Using jeepneys to teach ratios

• Using carabao and sacks of corn to explain ratios

• Using local environmental issues in science lessons

• Translating English stories into the local dialect