The Senate’s version of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) basic education program would require the Department of Education (DepEd) to submit a midterm report to Congress on the status and progress of the implementation of the new curriculum that would increase school years from 10 to 12.
The Senior High School Program under the Department of Education’s “K to 12” scheme will now be a permanent fixture in the University of Makati (UMak), which was the first in Metro Manila to test the proposal to add two years to the country’s basic education cycle.
High school students may have realized they were missing a few teachers on the day the new school year officially opened on Monday.
Malacanang on Tuesday called on teachers and parents to stop resisting the K to 12 program in order the put the country’s education system at par with the rest of the world.
The motive behind the K to 12 program is good but we need adequate funding and training for teachers, a lawmaker said in an interview over Radyo Inquirer on Monday.
Colleges are looking into various schemes to adjust to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Kindergarten to Year 12 (K to 12) basic education reform program, among them by offering a senior high school course based on the department’s curriculum, an education official said.
Avelina Jansen says: In the 1960s, I was Avelina Castillo when I started at ICA [Immaculate Conception Academy], a new teacher and graduate of the Ateneo de Zamboanga. Sister Tere (Sister Teresita Canivel, M.I.C.) was a religious novice and physics teacher.
For Senator Edgardo J. Angara, chairman of the Senate committee on education, the “most important purpose” of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) program “is its potential to address the acute job-skills mismatch in the country.”
The Philippines is supposedly one of only three countries with a 10-year basic education. Others have 12.
The K to 12 Basic Education Program, a major part of the campaign platform of President Aquino, is also one of the most controversial administration initiatives.
At the recent K to 12 (K-12) Basic Education Program National Summit held at Miriam College, top educators sought to answer frequently asked questions on the new elementary and secondary curricula that would mean an additional two years of study.
The government’s flagship “K to 12” (Kindergarten to 12th Grade) program will take center stage in this year’s celebration of Education Week as the Department of Education (DepEd) pursues the extension of the basic education cycle from 10 to 12 years.
