ILOCOS SUR
POLYTECHNIC STATE
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MODULE 6 - Gearing Up for the Future: Curriculum Reforms
Module Overview:
This module brings you to some curricular development’s reforms and enhancement.
As the Philippine education embraces itself with the ASEAN and the rest of the world, there
is a need to embark on enhancement and reforms in the curriculum. As a curriculum knower,
designer, implementer, and evaluator, substantial knowledge of these reforms is necessary.
Lesson 1: Reforms for Basic Education Curriculum
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
⮚ Gain comprehensive understanding of the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum
Reform
Let us now proceed with the module,
remember our study guide and follow our
study schedule.
Take Off
Curricular designers need to enhance the curriculum and propose curricular
innovations to respond to the changing educational landscape in the country as well as the
other parts of the globe. It is most necessary that as a future curricularist and a teacher,you
should be familiar with what is happening and will happen in our curriculum. There is no
substitute for being READY and INFORMED.
Course Code: Educ. 107
Descriptive Title: The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Professor: Dr. Shirley P. Palma
ILOCOS SUR
POLYTECHNIC STATE
Tagudin
Campus
COLLEGE
MODULE
Content Focus
Curriculum designers need to enhanced the recommended curriculum and propose curricular
innovations to respond to the changing landscape in education regionally and globally. Are
you aware of curricular reforms in the Philippines and other countries?
Republic Act 10533, otherwise known as the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013,
is the latest educational reform in the Philippine Education signed into law by President
Benigno Aquino III last May 15, 2013. It is an act enhancing the Philippine Basic Education
system by strengthening its curriculum and increasing the number of years for basic education
appropriating funds therefore and for other purposes. The Enhanced Basic Education Act of
2013 popularly known as K to 12 includes one (1) year of Kindergarten Education, six (6)
years of elementary education, six (6) years of secondary education includes four (4) years
of junior high school and two (2) years of senior high school. With K to 12, the existing 10
years of basic education is increased to 12 years with kindergarten education as a prerequisite
to entry in Grade I.
When K to 12 was launched in 2012, many Filipinos were apprehensive because of
the addition of two (2) more years in secondary schooling. Others said, K to 12 is doomed to
fail since it does not address the basic problems in education like lack of classrooms, chairs,
books, teachers, quality teaching and many more. Amidst criticism, the Department of
Education pushed for the K to 12 implementations.
The K to 12 Curriculum
Section 5 of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, stipulates the following
curricular standards which the curriculum developers adhered to in crafting the K to 12
curriculum:
a. The curriculum shall be learner – centered, inclusive and developmentally
appropriate;
b. The curriculum shall be relevant, responsive and research – based;
c. The curriculum shall be culture – sensitive;
d. The curriculum shall be contextualized and global;
e. The curriculum shall use pedagogical approaches that are constructivists, inquiry –
based, reflective, collaborative, and integrative;
f. The curriculum shall adhere to the principles and framework of the Mother Tongue –
Based Multilingual Education (MTB –MLE) which starts from where the learners are and from
what they already know from the known to the unknown; instructional materials and capable
teachers to implement the MTB –MLE curriculum shall be available;
g. The curriculum shall use the spiral progression approach to ensure mastery of
knowledge and skills after each level; and
h. The curriculum shall be flexible enough to enable and allow schools to localize,
indigenize and enhance the same based on their respective educational and social contexts.
The production and development of locally produced teaching materials shall be encouraged
and approval of these materials shall devolve to the regional and division education units.
Core Curriculum
Below are the learning areas comprising the core curriculum. The description
is based on DepEd Memo 13 s.2013.
Course Code: Educ. 107
Descriptive Title: The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Professor: Dr. Shirley P. Palma
ILOCOS SUR
POLYTECHNIC STATE
Tagudin
Campus
COLLEGE
MODULE
Course Code: Educ. 107
Descriptive Title: The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Professor: Dr. Shirley P. Palma
ILOCOS SUR
POLYTECHNIC STATE
Tagudin
Campus
COLLEGE
MODULE
Intended Learning Activity # 6
Name: ALONZO, CHANEL S.__________________
Course & Year: BSED 3-A ENGLISH
Name of Instructor: DR. SHIRLEY PALMA____
Subject: THE TEACHER AND THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Date: _______
Score: ______
Self-Check:
A. Let’s do the Survey
The Philippines has implemented the K to 12 curriculum from kindergarten to Grade
12. Conduct a survey among teachers at least 3 handling those grade levels. Ask them what
they like and what they do not like about the curriculum. Ask their suggestions on how to
improve the curriculum implementation. Submit the written results based from your interview.
Document the process.
B. What do I know? What can I tell? (Write your own personal opinion/s on the K to 12
curriculum being the second graduate of this type of curriculum).
K to 12 curriculum especially Grade 11 and 12 is a different phase compared to
Elementary and junior high school, in this stage, a learner can able to choose what they
track they want, its either STEM, HUMSS, ABM, TVL-ICT, TVL-HE, TVL-ARTS or GAS.
.
If you interviewed teachers, parents and students about K to 12, what ten ideas
or concepts can you tell?
1. Free to public schools
2. Philippines is the last Asian country to implement K-12
3.Kinder is mandatory
4. Mother tongue is the medium of instruction in K- Grade 3
5.Thirteen years of schooling
6. Grade 12 learners are ready to employ
7.Not all Highschool has Senior High School.
8. Only chosen school has STEM
9. Several college institutions offers Senior High School
10. Can choose tracks.
Self-Reflect:
Reflect on the statement below and comment: “The K to 12 is bound to fail
because it is implemented hurriedly without thorough planning”.
Course Code: Educ. 107
Descriptive Title: The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Professor: Dr. Shirley P. Palma
ILOCOS SUR
POLYTECHNIC STATE
Tagudin
Campus
COLLEGE
MODULE
Implementing a curriculum takes long process, it considers three terms in curriculum
development; implementing, planning and evaluation. K to 12, is bound to fail due to same
structural and personal issues.
Course Code: Educ. 107
Descriptive Title: The Teacher and the School Curriculum
Professor: Dr. Shirley P. Palma