What is this website?
This website aims to be a central repository of information for the CVIF-DLP learning tools. The idea is to share educational material to any interested school in the Philippines and beyond. If you represent a school in the Philippines wishing to implement our methods and we are not in contact already, please do write to us.
If you wish to understand better what CVIF-DLP is and how it works, please see the guide here.
What do all the acronyms mean?
- CVIF stands for the Central Visayan Institute Foundation, a school in Jagna (Bohol), Philippines, where the DLP has been and continues to be developed.
- DLP stands for the Dynamic Learning Program, an active-learning methodology developed by Christopher Bernido and M. Victoria Carpio-Bernido, directors of CVIF. DLP is intended for schools with limited resources, both material and human. By stimulating the students’ creativity and building upon their own prior knowledge, DLP facilitates high-quality education even in understaffed schools in which teachers are either too few or have limited training.
- LAS stands for Learning Activity Sheet, the main tool of CVIF-DLP. These are one-page sheets meant to be shown to and re-written in full by the students, often ending with a few open questions aimed at stimulating creative and critical thinking.
- SHS stands for Senior High School, corresponding to grade years 11 and 12 in the Philippine education system.
Can I use the information here for my own teaching?
Yes! You can use the contents on this website for your teaching freely. However, to formally and effectively implement DLP at your school, we recommend you follow our guidelines.
What exactly is a LAS?
Our Learning Activity Sheets (LASs) are single-page documents intended to help students navigate their own way to knowledge while stimulating deep-level understanding and creative thinking. The idea is that students work on each LAS chiefly on their own, building on what they already know and with minimal teacher intervention. Each LAS should build on knowledge that the students already have, and push them just enough to learn one or two new ideas. Over time, each LAS is a stepping stone towards true understanding of the subjects.
What if I find an error or problem?
Sometimes we make LASs that are too difficult or simply ineffective, and sometimes we fail to catch errors in our editing process. We need your help testing and making sure that our LASs are accurate and work for the students.
If you find an error or have a suggestion that you think would greatly improve one of our LASs, tools, videos, or the website itself, please do let us know.
Can I make my own LAS?
Yes, we provide a template and a guide here.
Can I modify the contents of the LASs in this website?
Yes! You can modify anything in this website to your needs, as long as you respect the conditions of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license under which all the materials here are released.
Can you tell me more about the license?
Most people don’t need to worry about this at all; you can just go and use anything you find useful in this website to teach your students. However, if you are planning to create new material, the CC license mentioned above means that:
- you cannot sell what you create
- you have to share it under the same conditions
- you cannot claim that we formally support your work (unless of course we do), and
- you have to give us credit by linking to this website clearly in your creations.
Please read more about the license on the Creative Commons website.
Who made this website?
The website is being developed by Dr. Victor Sojo as part of his 6-month Science Corps fellowship. Victor is an evolutionary biologist, presently at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. You can visit his website for more details of his research and interests.