Republic of the Philippines

Western Philippines University A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Topic: PHILIPPINE EDUCATION SYSTEM
-From Spanish Period up to present

Subject: MEM 601- Educational Laws and Legislation

Presenter: Jayra Joyce C. Taboada
Professor: Dr. Eliza Panis

I. OBJECTIVES

II. BACKGROUND
Guidance is an integral part of education catered to offer assistance to
individuals so that they would make intelligent decisions and adjustments in
life. Its fundamental aim is to help a person enhance the best in him—to help a
person responsibly adjust to situation as he progresses. Furthermore,
guidance is to see through oneself. By becoming familiar with one’s interests
and capabilities, the person is led to learn more about himself.

Objectives of Guidance Services

III. CONTENT

PRE-HISPANIC PERIOD
- The Philippine education started before the “ninunos” or aborigines arrived
in the Philippines.
– The education of the Philippines started as early as Negritos came.

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 - Education by this period is a continuous process and a source of life,
education had been practiced unconsciously by the early inhabitants of the
country.

SPANISH PERIOD
- Education by this period was informal, unstructured, and devoid of methods.
- Children were provided more vocational training and less academics (3 Rs,
Reading, writing and Arithmetic) byvtheir parents and in the houses of tribal
tutors.
- Tribal tutors were replaced by the Spanish Missionaries
- The Education was religion-orientes, for the elite, provided for the
establishmebt of at least one primary school for children in each town under
the responsibility of the municipal government.
- Establishment of normal school for male teachers under the supervision on
the Jesuits
- Primary instruction was free amd the teaching of Spamnish was compulsory.
- Education during that period was inadequate, suppressed and controlled

AMERICAN PERIOD

- Education Act of 1901 laid the doundation of the Philippine Public School
system. In August 1901, 600 teachers are called “Thomasites” areived.
English was made as medium of instruction.
- Curricular structure and programs were pattered from the U.S. There were 3
levels of education, Elementary level, Secondary or Higj School and College
or Tertiary level. New subject areas were introduced.
- Religion was notnincluded in the curriculum of the schools. Normal,
vocational, agricultural and business schools were also opened. Schools
were also built in non-Catholic areas like Sulu in Mindanao, and in Mountain
Province.
- Education under American colonization led to a widespread Americanization
of the Philippines. Through education, Americans had influenced many
Filipinos in terms of what they like, eat, culture and demand on westernized
products and lifestyle.

COMMONWEALTH PERIOD

- The period of Commonwealth (1935-1947) maybe considered as expansion

in a sense that new courses were added in the curriculum such as farming,
trade, business, domestic, science and etc.
- All schools should develop moral character, civic conscience, personal
discipline and vocabulary efficiency.

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 - The kind of teachers during this curriculum were American-trained Filipino
teachers who applied the educational reforms that they learned from the
United States
- Methods used: Memorization, Recitation, socialized interaction.
- School entrance age is seven
- Compulsory attemdance in the primary grades for all children who enroll in
Grade 1

JAPANESE PERIOD

- Usage of Niponggo and to stop using English language

- Spread elementary and vocational education
- Develop love for work
- Make people understand the position of the Philippines as a member of the
Greater Wast Asia Co-prosperity sphere and inspire the people with the
spirit of labor.

DURING 1987 CONSTITUTION

- All educational institution shall inculcate patiotism and nationalism, foster

love of humanitu, respect for human rights , appreciation of the role of
national heroes in the historical development od the country, teach the
rights and duties of citizenship strengthen ethical and spiritual values,
develop moral character and personal discipline, encourage vocational
efficiency.

PRESENT-DAY
- K+12 Basic Education Curriculum
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 IV. REFERENCES
Mendoza , Elenita Decal, Guidance and Counseling Today
Gibson, Robert L., Mitchell, Marianne H., Higgins, Robert E., Development
and Management of Counseling Programs and Guidance Services
https://www.slideshare.net/drjayeshpatidar/guidance-and-counselling
https://www.slideshare.net/tmxyz/guidance-counselling-29066361
https://www.slideshare.net/erlisonlorenzognilla/guidance-and-counseling-
final

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