Assignment Educ 211

Gerry G.
Bernandino Cubao Elementary School
MAED- SCD August 4, 2018
Assignment
EDUC 211: Current Issues and Trends in Education
1. What is K to 12?
K to 12 (also K-12) is an education system under the Department of

Education that aims to enhance learners’ basic skills, produce more competent
citizens, and prepare graduates for lifelong learning and employment. “K”
stands for Kindergarten and “12” refers to the succeeding 12 years of basic
education (6 years of elementary education, 4 years of junior high school, and 2
years of senior high school). The K to 12 curriculum gives students time to master
basic academic skills. It is also a designed to provide a holistic education for all
Filipino students. The K-12 curriculum guide requires all Filipino students to have
one year of kindergarten, six years of elementary schooling (grades 1 to 6), four
years of junior high school (grades 7 to 10), and two years of senior high school
(grades 11 to 12).
2. What are the goals and benefits of k to 12 education system?
The K-12 program offers a decongested 12-year program that gives

students sufficient time to master skills and absorb basic competencies. Students
of the new system will graduate at the age of 18 and will be ready for
employment, entrepreneurship, middle level skills development, and higher
education upon graduation. The K-12 program accelerates mutual recognition
of Filipino graduates and professionals in other countries.
Kindergarten is mandatory for five-year-old children, a pre-requisite for

admission to Grade 1.The new curriculum gives students the chance to choose
among three tracks (i.e. Academic; Technical-Vocational-Livelihood; and Sports
and Arts) and undergo immersion, which provides relevant exposure and actual
experience in their chosen track.
3. What are the key characteristics of the basic education program?
The leaders of our country are pushing for the K to 12 basic education
curriculum. Salient features that will yield fine learners with 21st century skills have
triggered this move.
a) 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.
b) 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.
c) 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.
d) 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.
e) Gearing Up for the Future
The new program aims to guarantee college preparedness and brace

technical vocational, 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.
f) 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.
4. How did you implement the k to 12 in your respective classroom?
Attend training and seminars to gain knowledge definitely implement fully

directly K to 12 program that conducted by DepEd promises to afford teachers
with trainings to equip them on the K-12 program and apply in a respective
classroom. In the same manner, it vows to work with the new content and
pedagogy to make sure the teacher meets the needed standards. Teachers
must join the trainings to arm themselves with the right knowledge on the K-12
structure. Teacher confirms its readiness to safeguard the K-12 system’s success.
It will make the trainings and workshops accessible to the teachers to deliver the
best learning to students and residents. Teaches vital life skills. Each mentor just
needs to focus on the new scheme’s bright and lasting effects.
5. How did you contextualize the curriculum in your school or locality? How
about innovations?
Based on my ideas this is a group of instructional strategies designed to

link the learning of basic skills, and academic or occupational content by
focusing teaching and learning directly on concrete applications in a specific
context that is of interest to the student.
Contextualization refers to the educational process of relating the

curriculum to a particular setting, situation or area of application to make the
competencies relevant, meaningful and useful to the learners. On the other
hand, Localization, being one of the degrees of contextualization, is the process
of relating learning content specified in the curriculum to local information and
materials from the learner’s community. We localize and contextualize the
curriculum and the use of learning materials in terms of Geography, Cultural
Diversity and Individuality. With these processes, teachers can present the lesson
in a more meaningful and relevant context based on the learner’s previous
experiences and real-life situations. Both of which adhere in making the lesson
flexible, creative, relevant, meaningful, and adoptive to students’ level of
understanding and instructional needs.

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Gerry G.

Bernandino Cubao Elementary School

MAED- SCD August 4, 2018

K to 12 (also K-12) is an education system under the Department of

The K-12 program offers a decongested 12-year program that gives

Kindergarten is mandatory for five-year-old children, a pre-requisite for

Research shows that children who go through standards-based

The new program aims to guarantee college preparedness and brace

Beyond kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and senior high schools,

Attend training and seminars to gain knowledge definitely implement fully

Based on my ideas this is a group of instructional strategies designed to

Contextualization refers to the educational process of relating the

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