Christine Mae M.

Samson July 12, 2019

BSED: English Major Luntian Section

“10 KEYPOINTS OF K-12 CURRICULUM”

1) Strengthening Early Childhood Education

Research shows that children who go through standards-based kindergarten programs have higher completion
rates than those who do not. Through required pre-school, each child aged 5 years old will now gain access to early
childhood learning. Students will learn letters, numbers, shapes, and colors through songs, dances, and games
using their mother tongue. This is a bold step toward making Grade 1 students a reader and a way to get them
ready for formal schooling.

2) Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners

Studies show that students grasp their lessons well if they can relate to them. Thus, the new program will include
examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and pictures based on culture, history, and reality. Added as well are
thoughts on issues such as disaster prevention, climate change, and Information and Communication Technology or
ICT. Through relevancy, they expect the students to gain in-depth knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through
continuity and consistency across every level and subject.

3) Building Skill

Experts have proven that children learn lessons and a second language better and are more active in class when
mentors teach them in their mother tongue. To build skill, learners must keep their ethnic uniqueness, values, and
culture. To do this, the program will use the child’s main language in studying and on learning tools from
kindergarten through third grade.

4) Ensuring Unified and Seamless Learning

In spiral progression, students first learn the basic concepts while they will study the complex ones in the next
grades. This lets them learn topics and lessons that match their developmental and cognitive skills. As learners
revisit and share them over again, they strengthen retention and enhance mastery of the topics and skills.

5) Gearing Up for the Future

The new program aims to guarantee college preparedness and brace TechVoc education and training. This lets
students choose their career path based on talent, interests, and the school’s capacity. Their track choice will define
the subjects they will study in Grades 11 and 12.

6) Readiness for College, Career and Life

Districts that are pursuing competency-based systems share a belief that the current purpose of K-12 education is
to facilitate a process through which all students graduate high school with the academic and lifelong learning skills
to be leaders in their communities, and agents of their own success — whether in college, career, or navigating the
opportunities and challenges they will encounter in their lives. While each community expresses its own values and
goals in the choices it makes around curriculum, pedagogy and school rituals, this core purpose is shared by
districts leading the way in competency-based education.

7) Being Ready to Join the Workforce

The Senior High School graduates will be trained that will make them commensible at certain track.
8) Nurturing the Fully Developed Filipino

Beyond kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and senior high schools, each K-12 graduate will be ready to move to
different paths. It could be for education, employment, or enterprise.

9)The K-12 curriculum is more than just adding years to your child's schooling.

The K to 12 curriculum gives students time to master basic academic skills. Prior to the implementation of the K-12
curriculum guide, the Philippines was one of only three countries in the world and the only one in Asia that still had
only 10 years in basic education.

This has always been seen as a disadvantage for our students who are competing in an increasingly global job
market. The longer educational cycle of the K-12 curriculum is seen as critical in giving Filipino students a higher
quality of education.

10) If there are 'Advantages', there is also 'Disadvantages'. Many parents disagreed with this new system of
education because they have to disburse more money for the education of their children. Also the government
does not have the fund to pay for two more years of free education because they need to solve first the lack of
classrooms, furnitures and equipment and free textbooks. The drop-out rate will increase because of the two
added years. It is because of lack of money to fund their childrens to send them to school.

"The problem is the content, not the length of basic education. We need to have better education not more
education." - Claire Bryant