MEDIUM OF

INSTRUCTION, VALUES
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EDUCATION AND
CORDON SANITAIRE
Isagani R. Cruz
• It was after the murder of Ninoy Aquino and before Marcos announce a
snap election. Isagani R. Cruz was part of a group doing a video on
Ninoy to be shown underground to Filipinos, so that people would know
exactly why he was such a threat to Marcos that he had to be shot at the
airport. Isagani have so many memories of those days. Here's one:
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A few months later, Marcos announced the snap election. Of course.
wrote Cory's first speeches, including the proclamation speech at
Liwasang Bonifacio. Isagani wrote all the speeches in Filipino. One
afternoon, when Cory and Isagani were again alone in her office, she
asked Isagani, "Do you think I should be running for president?"
"Ma'am, you will make a great president." Isagani said
unhesitating.

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"Promise me," she said, "that if I become president, you will
break through my cordon sanitaire

"I promise, ma'am." Isagani said.

 Lordes Quisumbing
•First woman secretary of education (1996-
1990)
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•She is the longest Serving education secretary
In the history of the Philippines.
•Introduced and advocated Values Education
 Executive Order No. 335

• A law signed by President Corazon C.

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•An executive order urging all government
employees to use Filipino in their official
transactions and communications.
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LINGUISTIC
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• Philippines was linguisticaly and ethnically diverse.
•70-120 languages/ dialect

10 Major Language:
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• Tagalog GENERAL
• Cebuano • Hiligaynon
• Ilocano • Waray
• Bicol • Maranao
• Kapampangan • Maguindanao
• There was a time that English was the
medium of instruction.
Revised
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introduced Tagalog as medium of instruction
in grade 1 and 2, with the shift to English as
main MOI in all school subjects starting in
Grade 3.
Bilingual Education
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• DECS Order No. 9, s. 1973.
• DECS Order No. 25, s. 1974
• English and Tagalog.
• DECS Order No. 52, s. 1987
Mother Tongue

- Using regional dialect as medium of instraction.

- UNESCO- Organization. United
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NationEducational, Scientificand Cultural
SIL-Summer Institute of Linguistics.
NAEYC-National Association for the Education of
Young Children.
Reasons for using Vernacular Instructions include:

• it's being psychologically and economically sound

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• it's being a positive move of maintaining language and
cultural identities
• instilling pride in ones own heritage, and
• getting the child to a good start in cognitive learning in
school
• Unschooled parents will be able to assist in their child school
learning if they share a common language with their children .

• In the matter of choosing a national language, It was not only

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that not all the regional languages could qualify as the national
or official language or main MOI in the schools, but also that in
large part the choice was full of political pitfalls thus making
decisions extremely difficult. At the time that a national policy
was instituted, it was thought that with English serving as
unifying language, no regional language would surface above
all the others.
•The approach in many countries today in Asia, Africa, South
America and Europe is to promote MT instruction in
cognizance of he proven ben efits of well-developed MT
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literacy skills toward second language learning and cognitive
learning, in general.

• mother tongue teaching has provided a positive non-

threatening learning environment for students, and the feeling
that they are making progress in English .
• This seemed to be the wis- dom that guided the choice
of English and it came to pass that an-all English
curriculum was followed from the grades up to the
secondary and tertiary levels.
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• Then, not soon after, a tide of nationalism emerged. An
overarching desire to incorporate an indigenous
language as another language of in- struction besides
English was expressed.
• Non-Tagalog Filipino learners face two language "obstacles",
that is two second languages to learn: English and Filipino

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• Highlighting the crucial roles of English as the acknowledged
language of Language of Wider Communication and the
language of the Digital Age, of the internet, among others will
be helpful.

• The preference for English, a foreign language, over the

indigenous, Filipino, cannot and should not be begrudged
ACCREDITATION AS A
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TOOL IN ACHIEVING
ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE
Accreditation means the act of granting
approval to an organization by an official review
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board after the organization has met specific
written requirements or standards..
Four bills converting state colleges into state universities have been passed
in both the House of Representatives and the Senates are awaiting the
signature of the President before these become laws, namely:

• HB 5336, Converting the Bataan Polytechnic State College and the Bataan

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State College into one state university to be known as the BATAAN PEN-
INSULA STATE UNIVERSITY;
• HB 5953, Converting the Laguna State Polytechnic College into a state
university to be known as the LAGUNA STATE UNIVERSITY
• HB 5977, Converting the Southern Luzon Polytechnic College into a state
university to be known as the SOUTHERN LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY
and
• HB 4910, Converting the Bukidnon State College into a state
university to be known as the BUKIDNON STATE
UNIVERSITY;

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• HB 5330 renaming Leyte State University into VISAYAS
STATE UNIVER- SITY, and

• HB 5332 which refers to the amendment of Republic Act No.

9045 which created the Batangas State University, excluding
from its coverage the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
(PUP) campus in Sto. Tomas, Batangas
• The amendment of the University of the Philippines Charter of 2008 -
Through the Republic Act 9500, an act strengthening the University of
the Philippines as a national university.
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•RA 8292 or the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997," which
embodies the necessary changes to the law that governs the state
universities and colleges to come at par with the prevailing times.
Several other bills were also filed during the 13th Congress. However, due to
some constraints, largely that of time, some bills remain at the committee level.
These include the:
• Rationalization of the typology of Higher Education Institutions to allow our
SUCs to focus on their core competencies and eventually pro duce graduates
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who are fully qualified for employment or successful en trepreneurship;
• Establishment of a College Education Trust Fund for GSIS and SSS grantees;
• Provision of scholarships and other benefits for public and private school
teachers and
• Provision of free tuition and other school fees for children of teachers and
employees in public and private institutions of higher learning.
• Open Learning System
- allow for wider access to educational opportunities,
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and learning where students
shall not be required to regularly attend conventional
classrooms .
• Executive Order 358
- Issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo On Sep. 15,
2004
- To institutionalize ladderized interface between TVET and HE
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- This EO mandates the TESDA and the CHED to organize form
their present staff complements a permanent Technical Secretariat
and to develop and implement a unified national qualifications
framework called the Phillpiine National Qualification Framework
PNQF
- is a system that establishes two pathways
based on existing equivalency system and
proposed mechanisms for mobility within the
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First is the access ramp

Second is the equivalency pathway.
•It is also envisioned to allow students to attain skills, knowledge and
qualification for certain jobs that do not necessarily require a full four or
five-year college degree. Example is the Nursing course in the United
States, where several levels of training and education are available. There is
the Nursing Aide certificate, the Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
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Nurse, and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing-all are attainable within
varying periods of time, from 2 years to 5 years, depending on the student's
course load. This approach allows students access to employment
opportunities within a shorter period, and providing the options for higher
levels of study in order to advance their career in their chosen profession.
•Another example is the modular offering of courses that can eventually
lead to the attainment of a diploma in a particular field.
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