The basic differences between COLF’s curriculum and the traditional curriculum are:

  1. a systematic effort at integration while children learn and master the specialized skills and concepts for each of the basic curriculum areas: Language Arts (in Filipino and English), Mathematics, Science, Social Studies.
  2. a commitment to maximizing learner-centered, activity-centered, experience-based approaches that are more effective and interesting.

    For example, play/games in the early childhood program (Lower School up to the first two years of the Middle School); projects and field trips (for all levels); emphasis on research in all its forms (observation, library research, interviews, interaction with resource persons); independent study balanced with cooperative learning e.g. group work, group-building activities.
  3. a serious effort to pay attention to individual children’s needs as whole human beings i.e. emphasizing the importance of cognitive development, social and emotional development and the interaction of a child’s overall development within the context of his or her participation in the life of the classroom and school community and as a member of Philippine society.
   

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