DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FORMAL EDUCATION and ALS Setting Community

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FORMAL EDUCATION and ALS

Setting : Community Setting : School

Facilitator: May or may not be licensed Teacher: LET passer

Learner: 6 yrs. & above (only for Dep. Ed) Student: 6 -15 years of age

Curriculum: Alternative Learning System Curriculum Basic Education Curriculum With same competencies With five learning areas With five major subjects

Learning Materials: Self paced Self-instructional Indigenous Integrated Textbooks Teacher-facilitated

Differences in Nomenclature Formal – – – – Pedagogy Academic Focus School Pupil/Student Teacher Class Subject Grade/Year Level Textbooks Lesson Plan Graduate Diploma Teachers’ Manual Nonformal – – – – Andragogy Functional Focus Learning Center Learner Instructional Manager Learning Group/Session Learning Strand Levels of Literacy Modules Session Plan Completers Certificate Facilitator’s Guide

Modes of Delivery to ensure continuing learning literacy, livelihood, equivalency, continuing lifelong learning (informal) Multigrade In School – Out of School (IS-OS)

Assessment of Learning Portfolio (Individualized) Built-in certifying and accrediting mechanism to equate with the standard Norming Standard

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