Teachers Take Note of the Major Paradigm Shifts in Education

1. Learner-Centered and Learner-Oriented Curriculum

There has been a change in the role of the teacher in the teaching-learning process. Before, teachers are the sole sources of knowledge. However, due to the advent of technology and the conceptualization of the idea that learners have innate potentials, teachers are now facilitators and motivators of learning.

Learners are no more selected using a single or fixed criteria. Due to the advent of the idea that every child is special in his own way (the multiple intelligence and learner diversity theories), it is no a well-established fact that student selection should be more open and that multiple standards be taken into account. Different learners have different interests and preferences.

Before there is what's called a prescribed pedagogy which applies across all learners. Now, many different teaching styles are are employed, respecting the learners' uniqueness of intelligence, motivations, needs and situations.

2. Contextualize-Learning

Pre-organized subject matters are changed to contextualize themes. These themes are generated from the global realities and the culture that is relevant, meaningful and useful to the learners.

Knowledge limited to the local scene is changed. It is broadened to encompass globalized knowledge, values, attitudes and skills interfaced with local wisdom.

Traditional pedagogues are also discouraged. This is to give way to modern strategies of teaching and learning.with the freedom to use mixed modes of instruction and more interactive technology.

3. A Holistic Integrated Approach to Education

Before, knowledge is the only learning outcome sought in the classrooms. Now, education also aims the development of values and attitudes, skills and competencies, not through classroom instruction alone but the entire school culture and atmosphere. Its vision and mission, co-curricular activities and the human climate are established by the relationship existing therein.

There has been a change from a knowledge-dominated curriculum to more attention being given to values education and emotional learning. The heart of education is the education of the heart.

Rigid subject matter boundaries were felled and interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to problems and issues were founded.

4. Lifelong Education For All

Limited access to education is now discouraged. The society is given the chance to learn borderlessly, with the boundaries of time or space.