NCDP Methodology PDF
NCDP Methodology PDF
NCDP Methodology PDF
Methodology and
Religious Instruction
Major sources in Religious Instruction
• Bible
• Church Teachings
• Tradition
• Human Experience
NCDP CONTENT
Chapter 1
Overview context of the Philippine
Catechesis: social, economic, political,
cultural and religious dimension
What is catechesis?
Form of the ministry of the Word to make
men’s faith become living, conscious and
active, through the light of instruction.
NCDP CONTENT
Chapter 2
Catechesis: its nature, goals and sources
Why Catechesis?
Chapter 3
Foundations of Catechesis:
Revelation, Faith and the Church.
NCDP CONTENT
Chapter 4
Facilitates better understanding and
use of the CFC in catechetical practices
NCDP CONTENT
Chapter 5
Takes up the complex topic
of catechetical methodology
Chapter 6
Covers catechetical
organization, personnel and
resources.
How is the NCDP related to the CFC?
Historical background of the CFC
• Up-to-date
• Systematic, and
• Typically “Filipino”
Three Basic Principles of the NCDP
stressed by the CFC:
INTEGRATION
INCULTURATION
COMMUNITY
FORMATION
The CFC’s 5-fold CHAPTER PATERN
Highlights and fosters
the NCDP’s 3 Basic Principles
Introductory Text
and Opening Context
Integration EXPOSITION
Questions and
Answers
The CFC Chapter Pattern brings out the NCDP Principle:
INTEGRATION
•by linking its specific topic with the Filipino CONTEXT,
• in an EXPOSITION grounded in an integration use of
sources
• Widening the scope in the INTEGRATION’s section on
Doctrine, Morals, and Worship,and
• Pulled together in the summary of QUESTIONS and
ANSWERS
The CFC Chapter Pattern brings out the NCDP Principle:
INCULTURATION
• by stressing the Filipino dimension in the
OPENING and the CONTEXT,
• Exposing the strength and weaknesses of the
Filipino understanding and practice of the topic,
• Stressing concrete Filipino experience in the
INTEGRATION’s examples,
• With Questions and Answers formulated not for
rote memory but to incite thinking of what’s really
real
The CFC Chapter Pattern brings out the NCDP Principle:
COMMUNITY-FORMATION
• by relating to the lights and shadows of our concrete Filipino
Christian Communities in the OPENING and the CONTEXT;
• directing the EXPOSITION to specific Filipino insights and
difficulties relative to the topic;
Kingly Priestly
Prophetic
(Service) (Worship)
(Word)
CHRIST-CENTERED
Morals
• found in the Commandments, Beatitudes and
Gospel values and attitudes
FAITH
CHRIST-CENTERED
Paralyses in the Faith
Ideological Activism
Paralyses in the Faith
Pious activism
Paralyses in the Faith
Pious dogmatism
Paralyses in the Faith
Activism
Paralyses in the Faith
Ritualism
Paralyses in the Faith
Dogmatism
Paralyses in the Catholic Faith
FAITH
• INCULTURATED CATECHESIS
• The concrete Filipino life experiences
• Students are led to recognize the values they
uphold and asses the relationship they have
with God and others in their environment:
at home, in school and in the bigger
community.
ELEMENTS FOR THE LESSON DEVELOPMENT
(NCDP 2007 MODEL)
“Catechesis will always draw its content from the living source
of the Word of God transmitted in tradition and the Scriptures,
for Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scriptures
•We are social beings who are born, grow up and mature in
continuous relation to others.
SAMPLE GROUND PLAN
Path 17: Jesus Is Tempted of Popularity, Teacher’s Manual, pp. 47-49
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
• SERVANT-LEADER
: Mother Marie Josseaume
• VALUES
: Courage, Commitment
• TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION
: Political Education
SAMPLE OF LESSON DEVELOPMENT (using NCDP 2007 format)
Opening Prayer
A. Where are We
1. Ask the students to answer the activity, “Popularity Poll” on page 67.
2. Ask them to share their answers to the big group.
3. Read the linking paragraph to lead the students to see how Jesus
Himself experienced being tempted with popularity.
C. Let us Move On
D. Truths to Remember
E. Assignment
• Read the account of the life and works of Cristina Bugayong on pages
73-74. What did you learn from her life.
SAMPLE OF LESSON DEVELOPMENT (using NCDP 2007 format)
F. Closing Prayer
Important Note:
For PRE-SCHOOL and GRADE SCHOOL participants, choose a lesson from
the SPC Religious Education Series and be ready to give demonstration
lesson on the lesson you have chosen.
For HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGE participants, each one is expected to
prepare a detailed Lesson Plan using the Ground Plan and Exposition
from the High School A SPC Religious Education Series. Make your own
Opening Prayer, Context, Activities, Integration, Challenge, Assessment
Activity (One formal and One creative), choose your own Servant-
Leader. Use the template of your own school. Be ready to give a
demonstration lesson at the end of the day.
Please submit whatever you finished for documentation purposes.