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Things That Teachers Like About The K-12 Curriculum: Activity 1 - Let's Do A Survey

The document discusses the implementation of curriculum reforms in the Philippines, including the shift to a K-12 system. It provides perspectives from teachers on what they like and don't like about the previous and new curriculums. Suggestions are also made to improve curriculum implementation, focusing on investing in teacher training, modernizing teaching approaches, and involving stakeholders. The activities ask learners to reflect on what they know about K-12, what concepts they could share from interviews with parents and teachers, and whether K-12 is bound to fail due to hurried implementation or underlying issues in the education system.

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Things That Teachers Like About The K-12 Curriculum: Activity 1 - Let's Do A Survey

The document discusses the implementation of curriculum reforms in the Philippines, including the shift to a K-12 system. It provides perspectives from teachers on what they like and don't like about the previous and new curriculums. Suggestions are also made to improve curriculum implementation, focusing on investing in teacher training, modernizing teaching approaches, and involving stakeholders. The activities ask learners to reflect on what they know about K-12, what concepts they could share from interviews with parents and teachers, and whether K-12 is bound to fail due to hurried implementation or underlying issues in the education system.

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Group Activity, Curriculum Reforms

Activity 1 – Let’s Do a Survey


Conduct a survey among teachers handling those grade levels. Ask them what they like and what
they do not like about the curriculum. Ask their suggestions on how to improve the curriculum
implementation. Report to the class and submit written results.

Things that Teachers Like about the K-12 Curriculum


1. "It is urgent and critical to improve the quality of basic education in the Philippines."
2. "The low achievement results of Filipino kids reflect the poor quality of basic education." One
explanation is that children may not receive enough instructional or task time."
3. Test results consistently demonstrate that Filipino students lag behind countries in the Asian
region.
4. "The overloaded curriculum explains part of the current status of education," says one expert.
5. “This quality of education is reflected in the inadequate preparation of high school graduates for
the world of work or entrepreneurship or higher education.” If ten years were adequate, how come
employers do not hire fresh high school graduates?
6. “Most graduates are too young to enter the labor force.” Since most children start Grade 1 when
they are 6 years old, they do not reach the legal employable age of 18 when they graduate from
high school today.
7. “The current system also reinforces the misperception that basic education is just a preparatory
step for higher education.” Why prioritize the minority of high school graduates that go to college?
8. “The short duration of the basic education program also puts the millions of overseas Filipino
workers (OFWs), especially the professionals, and those who intend to study abroad, at a
disadvantage. Our graduates are not automatically recognized as professionals abroad.” The best
examples are our engineering graduates, who are condemned to international jobs not befitting
their professional status due to our not having a 12-year basic education cycle.
9. “The short basic education program affects the human development of the Filipino children.” If
we believe that 17-year-old high school graduates are emotionally, psychologically, and
intellectually mature, why do we require them to get parental consent before they get married?

Things that they don’t like about the K-12 Curriculum


1. Parents have to shell out more money (for transportation and food) for the education of their
children.
2. The government does not have the money to pay for two more years of free education, since it
does not even have the money to fully support today’s ten years. DepEd must first solve the lack
of classrooms, furniture and equipment, qualified teachers, and error-free textbooks.
3. We can do in ten years what everyone else in the world takes 12 years to do. Why do we have to
follow what the rest of the world is doing? We are better than all of them. Filipinos right now are
accepted in prestigious graduate schools in the world, even with only ten years of basic education.
4. As far as the curriculum is concerned, DepEd should fix the current subjects instead of adding new
ones. The problem is the content, not the length, of basic education. As an editorial put it, we need
to have better education, not more education.
5. A high school diploma will not get anybody anywhere, because business firms will not hire fresh
high school graduates.
6. Every family dreams of having a child graduate from college.
7. While students are stuck in Grades 11 and 12, colleges and universities will have no freshmen for
two years. This will spell financial disaster for many private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
8. The drop-out rate will increase because of the two extra years.

Suggestions to improve the curriculum implementation


1. Invest in Training Teachers
2. Upgrade Senior Highs School Teachers by Capacity Building Trainings and Seminars
3. Modernize the Teacher’s Job
4. Think in Terms of Tradeoffs, Not Absolutes
5. Let Kids Learn at Their Own Pace
6. Get Families Involved Early
7. Address the Issue of Poverty
8. Involve Other Stakeholders including Higher Education providers during curriculum revisit

Activity 2
What I know? What I can tell?

The K-12 curriculum is long overdue and needed. The ten-year curriculum was simply insufficient,
especially in the modern context. The new K-12 system however gives more time for more content to be
taught and students to remain in school longer rather than picking up negative influences after their
graduation at the early age of 16. However, while the system is well-received, I still think the curriculum
can be better improved to teach students more relevant knowledge and at a higher standard, rather than
spending the first six years teaching very basic things like pronunciation in English or basic arithmetic for
Mathematics, which I think can be taught in two years, see Singapore as an example. If you interviewed
about K to 12, which ten ideas or concepts can you tell?
Personally, the K to 12 is an advantage because when I worked outside the Philippines as a civil
engineer, they questioned my basic education because according to them I lacked two years. I have to
provide them documents like elementary and high school diplomas to justify that in fact I have finished
my basic education before proceeding to college.
There may be problems right now as to implementation of the K to 12 program but I am very
optimistic that in near future it will be perfected if necessary reforms will be undertaken.

If you interviewed parents and teachers about K to 12. What 10 ideas or concepts can you tell?

1. The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of Basic Education to provide sufficient
time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners and prepare graduates for
tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship.
2. The K-12 Basic Education Program proposed by the Department of Education adds two years of
secondary education to allow graduates to pursue one of three paths: postgraduate employment,
higher education or entrepreneurship.
3. K to 12 program implementation is aimed at creating more skilled students with basic skills for
lifelong learning and employment.
4. This program promoted the mutual recognition of Filipino learners and professionals in other
countries because they were able to master the skills and learn the core competencies which were
necessary to meet the demands of the global market. T
5. This new program created learners who have been prepared for jobs, entrepreneurship and
middle-level skills development since they had to graduate on the program at the age of 18
6. This new education scheme in the Philippines has given the students the chance to choose on
their own as they pursue a specific track that made them successful in a certain area.
7. Through the senior high school program, It introduces tracks and strands that will prepare
learners in their desired program to take in college. Say for instance if you plan to take
Medicine/Engineering, then take the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
strand, or wanted to take Business-related programs, then take ABM (Accountancy, Business,
and Management) strand.
8. As early as grade 10, you can obtain an NC-II level certificate granted by TESDA, which is a
great help if you plan to start a business (i.e. food business, computer services, agribusiness,
etc.). Entrepreneurship is taught also on G11/G12.
9. Students undergo immersion, which may include earn-while-you-learn opportunities, to provide
them relevant exposure and actual experience in their chosen track.
10. The principle of MTB-MLE is to use the language that learners are most comfortable and
familiar with; therefore, the common language in the area or lingua franca shall be used as the
language of instruction

Activity 3.

Reflect on the statement “The K to 12 bound to fail because it is implemented hurriedly

The success or failure of the K–12 program is mostly determined by the student's desire to learn
and/or the importance they place on what they're (supposed to be) learning. To put it another way, the
students are either unable to study adequately or do not find studying worthwhile due to their personal
circumstances. Either they are too impoverished to have adequate books, school supplies, and rest, or they
must assist with the family's financial support, or both. Every day, children in certain rural communities
must walk not only kilometers to school, but also up hill, downhill, and even through a roaring river.And
more often than not, many of them go to school hungry. Add to that the fact that most public schools are
overflowing way past capacity per classroom, where you cram too many kids in a very small space.

Teachers also have to deal with too many pupils at once, thus the quality of education will decrease
regardless of how skilled the teacher is or how eager the students are. That's just the structural issues.
Infrastructure issues exist. There aren't enough schools. There aren't enough classes. There aren't enough
teachers. There aren't enough qualified teachers. There aren't enough dedicated teachers. There aren't
enough supplies. It is not the system that is the problem. It is the people both running that system and is
supposedly benefiting from that system.

K-12 is bound to fail because the same structural and personal problems that have always hounded
Filipino students and the Philippine education system are still there. Poverty. Lack of interest.

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