The document discusses the issues and concerns surrounding the implementation of the K-12 program in the Philippines. It aims to provide 12 years of basic education and better prepare students for tertiary education. However, there are several challenges including inadequate resources for teachers and schools, lack of learning modules, increased costs burdening families, and employment concerns with the additional graduates. While the goal of improving education quality is important, the document argues the program is still in the crucial implementation stage and priorities should be given to training teachers, enhancing school facilities, and ensuring opportunities for senior high school graduates.
The document discusses the issues and concerns surrounding the implementation of the K-12 program in the Philippines. It aims to provide 12 years of basic education and better prepare students for tertiary education. However, there are several challenges including inadequate resources for teachers and schools, lack of learning modules, increased costs burdening families, and employment concerns with the additional graduates. While the goal of improving education quality is important, the document argues the program is still in the crucial implementation stage and priorities should be given to training teachers, enhancing school facilities, and ensuring opportunities for senior high school graduates.
The document discusses the issues and concerns surrounding the implementation of the K-12 program in the Philippines. It aims to provide 12 years of basic education and better prepare students for tertiary education. However, there are several challenges including inadequate resources for teachers and schools, lack of learning modules, increased costs burdening families, and employment concerns with the additional graduates. While the goal of improving education quality is important, the document argues the program is still in the crucial implementation stage and priorities should be given to training teachers, enhancing school facilities, and ensuring opportunities for senior high school graduates.
The document discusses the issues and concerns surrounding the implementation of the K-12 program in the Philippines. It aims to provide 12 years of basic education and better prepare students for tertiary education. However, there are several challenges including inadequate resources for teachers and schools, lack of learning modules, increased costs burdening families, and employment concerns with the additional graduates. While the goal of improving education quality is important, the document argues the program is still in the crucial implementation stage and priorities should be given to training teachers, enhancing school facilities, and ensuring opportunities for senior high school graduates.
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1. The educational department has implemented the K-12 program.
Will this program improve the
quality of Philippine education ? Can the program result to a better competitiveness of the Filipino graduates? What are the issues and concerns confronting the current implementation of above mentioned program ? Depend your position ? The k-12program covers kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education ,four years of junior high school and two years of Senior high school to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills ,develop lifelong learners ,and prepare graduates for tertiary education. In order to execute all these changes, Philippine education system needed to make adjustments and policies that primarily subject to the improving the quality of our graduates. Specifically in Senior high school, one of the issues that has been circulating is the change in their curriculum design. The enhanced curriculum has captured the attention of students because schools are already implementing more distinct and specific programs to be offered to their students from the Junior and Senior levels. One of the goals of the K-12 program is for the students to be fully equipped upon graduating from high school. In order to meet this goal, schools executed a lot of adjustments in their curriculum. The present senior high school curriculum is much more complex compared from the past. Now, the students were asked to choose a track that they will specialize on. All of them need to take required subjects and complete a certain number of hours. The other subjects that they will take will depend on the track that they have chosen. If we look into it, we can notice that it is like a college set up that we are used to in our country. Since there were changes in the overall curriculum, issues on resources have consecutively risen. Teachers, the major human resources in education, are expected to have mastery in the subject they teach and be competent at the same time.Other issues, also mentioned that teachers in senior high school should now have a master’s degree or at least have taken up masteral units. SHS teachers are expecting an increase in their salaries since the qualification from them also increased. Some schools just hire from their own faculty or from their industry partners. Another issue is where the schools, especially the public schools, will get their funds to implement these changes. There were complaints that only a few public schools have received a certain amount of money from the government to acquire facilities and equipment needed for the implementation. One of the concerns of the school is where they will get learning modules for the new curriculum of senior high school. The Department of Education has not yet developed instructional material for the new curriculum and they just get mostly from online resources. Aside from the problems mentioned, the implementation of K-12 also needs to monitor and provide training programs for the teachers and guidance counsellors who are responsible for collaborating with the Junior and Senior high school students. Since there will be specialized tracks offered in Senior high school, all the teachers must have basic knowledge regarding the new subjects that the schools will offer, specifically for the technical-vocational subject that the students will be exposed to. The quality of the information that these teachers will impart to their students can be improved if the government highlights the importance of being exposed to developing new skills from these core subjects through undergoing training and seminars. Furthermore, the changes mandated in the schools will also affect the performances of the guidance counsellors who are tasked to manage the participation of each student in taking the course program offered by the school. It is their role to make sure that the students engage themselves in the tracks they think they excel in and with that, guidance counsellors should be well-oriented and enlightened about these changes. Just like the teachers, they should also be monitored through these training programs. Employment issues are also raised in line with this major topic. Looking at the present situation in our society, the college graduates are expected to apply in the field where they have majored in. With this, the students should be able to establish connections with companies or industries that will help them get into their appropriate fields. Analyzing this matter, if there will be graduates from the Senior high school and college, will the local government units and other companies be able to provide opportunities for all of them? Is there an assurance that all the graduates will work on the respective fields they have acquired experiences from? In addition, another problem arises regarding the quality of employees the companies would hire for application. The competition between the Senior high school and college graduates will increase due to the full implementation of the K-12 curriculum. Since the high school graduates will also have access to employment, in what way will these companies base their approval for the applicants? Are the acquired experiences of the high school graduates equally match the experiences of those who graduated in college? Whose quality of work will appear to be more precise? Based on what the researchers have gathered, it is an advantage for the high school students to have earlier first-hand experiences regarding their specialization. But if the companies will compare the number of years both graduates were exposed to in a specific field of study, the college students will appear to be more familiar and oriented with the whole application of what they have learned since they had undergone several years of training in their course program. Moreover, we should foresee the students who are not going to be fortunate enough to take the financial expenses that have been brought by the additional 2 years of basic education. The longer education cycle would be an added burden to households and would later on translate to higher dropout rates. While the government can provide free public education, the allowances, transportation, school supplies, and other schooling expenses are still to be shouldered by the parents. According to some surveys, the number of out-of- school-youths have increased and this can get worse if the government keeps on setting aside all the issues especially now that the K-12 has been in the process of full implementation. Although the k-12 program promotes quality education for all , but in my opinion, the implementation of this program still in a crucial period because ,base on my experience as a teacher in a far flung barangay ,we have inadequate materials needed specially in ICT. Students in our barangay was not equipped when it comes in ICT subject. For me, government top priorities in implementation of k-12 program ,must maximized the training and seminars for teachers , School facilities and equipment were enhanced, there are companies provide opportunities to the senior high school graduates, when it happens, the k 12 program in the Philippines, will surely become highly globally competitive country.