Republic of the Philippines Department of Education REGION | SCHOOLS DIVISION OF LA UNION Office of the Schools Division Superintendent DIVISION MEMORANDUM ‘September 8, 2021 NO. FROM 8. 2021 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HOMEROOM GUIDANCE (HG) CURRICULUM DURING CRISIS SITUATION FOR SY 2021-2022 + Education Program Supervisors Public Schools District Supervisors Public Elementary and Secondary Schoo! Heads ‘School Guidance Counselors, Designates All others Concerned ATTY. DONATO D. BALDERAS JR., CESOV Schools Division Superintendent The Office of Curriculum and Instruction (CI), through the Bureau of Curriculum Development (BCD) issued the Revised Policy Guidelines on the Implementation of Homeroom Guidance (HG) During Crisis Situation (DM-CI- 2021-346). This Office reiterates the compliance of all schools of the basic standards ‘set for by the Policy to cater to the life skills development of learners which shall empower them to overcome the different challenges and adapt to the “new normal” brought about by the current situation. Please be guided by the following principles and policies: 1. Nomenclature. Homeroom Guidance shall be reflected in the class program of every school and other school documents such SF-9 (Form-138; Report Card) and SF-10 (Form-137; Permanent Student Record) as Homeroom Guidance. Homeroom Guidance shall not be viewed as a formal learning area like Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (EsP} and the like. It shall be treated as a Program that will help leamers develop the competencies needed in the 3 domains (Academic development Domain, Personal and Development Domain, and Career Development Domain}, Its delivery shall be informal but still follows the Structured Learning Experience flow. ‘Address: lores St, Calbangen, City of San Fernando, La Union, } Telephone He. 205-0086Republic of the Philippines Department of Education REGION | SCHOOLS DIVISION OF LA UNION Office of the Schools Division Superintendent 3. Implementer, Class Advisers shall be assigned to implement the program with the technical assistance of the Guidance Counselor. If the schoo! does not have a Guidance Counselor, the School Head may assign a Guidance Designate but he/she should be provided with proper training specific to the implementation of Homeroom Guidance Teaching Load. Homeroom guidance shall be equivalent to one (1) teaching load on top of the teacher's advisory and subject's load. Class Program. The Homeroom Guidance shall be scheduled once a week, Time Allotment, One (1) hour per week Grade Level No. of Minutes per Session Kindergarten’ “Included in the blocks of time Grade 1— Grade 12 | 60 minutes — Learning Modality - The Homeroom Guidance shall be delivered in different learning modalities depending on the needs of the learners and the school's capability, Learning Materials - The Homeroom Guidance self-learning modules will be issued by the Department of Education, through the Bureau of Learning Resources. This will be posted in the DepEd Learning Resource Portal, Medium of Instruction. LMs are written in English but regions may opt to use Mother Tongue convenient to the learners, (0. Collaboration with the family and community is also encouraged in order to ‘devo: Fore i. Catangen, Cy of an Fernan, La Union ‘Telephone No. (077) 205-00 P Raval leunlocisieped wp(eat ? Revublic of the Philippines: Department of Education REGION I SCHOOLS DIVISION OF LA UNION Office of the Schools Division Superintendent create a vente for the learners in developing such life skills. Parents may refer to the Gabay sa Magulang found in the SLM in order to guide their children in accomplishing the activities, 11. Orientation and capacity building. Schools shall conduct school-based orientation for parents and learners after the conduct of the Division Orientation for Guidance Counselors/ Guidance Designates/teachers/Class advisers, Schools shall upload reports on the conduct of orientation thru a link to be sent later. 12, Learner's Development Assessment Tool - Homeroom Guidance assessment results shall be distributed and discussed by the class adviser during the Parent-Teacher Conference, This shall be issued as an attachment to the learner's Report Card (SF9). 13.Schools shall include all expenses relative to Homeroom Guidance in their Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) and School Improvement Plan (SIP). 14.Non-implementation or improper implementation of Homeroom Guidance shall be subject to existing applicable administrative actions For the complete policy guidelines, please download (for those who have not downloaded yet) DM-CI-202 1-346, Said Memo was also shared through social media group pages of school heads and guidance counselors/designates. Wide dissemination and compliance to this memorandum is desired. NATO D. BALDERAS JR. Division Superintendent Cv pt/201 semen merce Seer Address: Flores St., Catbangen, City of San Fernanda, ta Union, ‘Telephone Ne.: (072) 205-0046 ‘Bamall:I.uniorshteped gov.ph