The review is presented in six parts: K to 12 Curriculum, Senior High School Program, diversity of the measures of ability/aptitude, achievement, and occupational interest, measures on Senior High School readiness, college and career readiness, and different methods in validating measures of ability, achievement and occupational interest. This part of the study accounts the studies undertaken by accredited scholars and researchers. The K to 12 Curriculum in the Philippines Oteyza (2012) posited
The longer educational cycle of the K-12 curriculum is seen as critical in giving Filipino students a higher quality of education. The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization – Innotech (SEAMEO-Innotech) found the previous 10-year educational cycle to be congested, with a 12-year curriculum squished into 10 years. As a result, Filipino students have trailed behind students around the world in the areas of math, languages and science. The new curriculum is aimed to fix that
1. Discuss different perspective surrounding the implementation of the said curriculum including the Washington and Bologna accords. Different Perspectives on the K-12 Curriculum Implementation in the Philippines K-12 implementation seeks to be at par with international standards. The question is whose standards the Philippine education is adhering to. Globalization has brought forth these standards. With the opening of international labor market, a tighter competition coexisted. Survival of the
Finding solutions to a number of problems in education is not an easy task for the government and other stakeholders. We have been encountering perennial problems every single day and it seems like these problems keep on coming back despite the efforts and moves that the government does yearly to lessen them. Through the EFA 2015, these problems are aimed to be lessen, if not completely eradicated, and continue the pursuit for excellence and accessibility of education for all Filipinos. Addressing
poor families as wholesale of their expenditures goes to food (60%). In the said year, only 1.2% of the household budget is disbursed for education. This means the government does not give any attention on education. Critics appealed that though K to 12 will be given free by the government in public schools where most of the unfortunate enroll in, parents will still have out-of-pocket outlays to cover their schoolchildren’s food, transportation and allowance. Addition of two more years of high school
connectedness ramp up, traditional definitions of employment are being re-written. Fewer companies now offer full-time jobs. It was predicted that by year 2020, there would be 70 million freelancers, consultants and independent workers. This means that the K-12 education system in the Philippines will have to revamp itself to cater all these changes. Jesuit Education adapts means and methods in order to achieve
Schools all over the world constantly update for the newest trends and innovations to achieve quality education. This is a drive that is becoming normal among the first-world countries that always aspire for competence and excellence. Who would like to be left behind in upgrading one’s learning when in the first place the educational arena is very dynamic and fast-changing nowadays? Unlike in the first-world countries, the quality of education among the third world countries just like the Philippines
and vary in size, yet shared important policy features. The sample consisted of three-hundred and seventy-four (374) randomly selected first- and second-year, K-12 public school teachers (excluding art and physical education). Seventy-four (74) percent of the ninety-nine (99)
Last June 28, 2013, Commission on Higher Education released a Memorandum Order No. 20, which states that Filipino subjects at tertiary levels will be removed. I am strongly opposed to the said memorandum. Our education should begin with the study of our language, including its culture and history. It is the task of the Filipino citizens to honor our language and to use it ethically, not to neglect it and be a chattel of the foreign tongues. It is necessary to continuously study our language, and
When K-12 Education is implemented, the expectation that everything and everyone --- parents, teachers, and the students --- will be subjected to adjustments and modifications has escalated. One of the issues which ascended upon the execution of K-12 Education that is getting less attention from the public is the alterations done in terms of school uniforms to distinguish the seniors from the juniors. It is due to the necessity to separate the junior and senior high school students as entailed by