Philippine Basic Education

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MAY 31, 2012   By  ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL "The Aquino government has yet to present a convincing program to remedy the existing shortages in the education sector. How can basic education qualitatively function amid these dire shortages?”  – Rep. Raymond Palatino Bulatlat.com MANILA – School opening is just a week from now, the Department of Education (DepEd) has started its “Brigada Eskwela” where teachers, as well as parents and students, are mobilized to clean their respective schools in preparation for the coming school year. The DepEd had also announced their preparations on the implementation of the K to 12 program for grade one and grade seven students. However, perennial problems in the basic education system remain. The K to 12 program is a flagship program of President Benigno “Noynoy” S. Aquino III. With the implementation of the said program, the government aims to improve the quality of basic educati...

MGA TANONG AT SAGOT HINGGIL SA Kto12 PROGRAM NG GOBYERNO NG PILIPINAS Posted on May 28, 2012 by David Michael San Juan MGA TANONG AT SAGOT HINGGIL SA Kto12 PROGRAM NG GOBYERNO NG PILIPINAS (Paunawa: Simpleng lenggwahe ang ginamit sa artikulong ito upang madaling maintindihan ng mayorya.) For the full English version please visit http://www.scribd.com/david_juan_1/d/70033985-San-Juan-David-Michael-Full-Paper-Kto12 TANONG: ANO ANG KTO12 PROG­­­RAM?­­­­ SAGOT: Ang Kto12 Program ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas ay tumutukoy sa pagkakaroon ng mandatory o required na kindergarten at karagdagang 2 taon sa dating 10-year Basic Education Cycle. Kung noon, pagkatapos ng anim na taon sa elementarya at apat na taon sa hayskul (kabuuang 10 taon) ay maaari nang makapagkolehiyo ang mga estudyante. Sa ilalim ng Kto12, bago makapagkolehiyo, kailangan pa nilang dumaan sa karagdagang 2 taon pagkatapos ng apat na taong hayskul. Sa bagong sistema, tinatawag na senior high school ...

Figure taken from http://www.skill-guru.com/sat/devil%E2%80%99s-advocate-rote-learning-in-sat-test-is-good/       " The visitors and high officials, after being handsomely entertained, would then write in their _Travels_ or _Memoirs_: "The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas of Manila, in charge of the enlightened Dominican Order, possesses a magnificent physical laboratory for the instruction of youth. Some two hundred and fifty students annually study this subject, but whether from apathy, indolence, the limited capacity of the Indian, or some other ethnological or incomprehensible reason, up to now there has not developed a Lavoisier, a Secchi, or a Tyndall, not even in miniature, in the Malay-Filipino race."  - Jose Rizal, El Filibusterismo, "The Class in Physics", Chapter XIII, English Translation - Gutenberg This was a lesson from history. In "The Class in Physics", Jose Rizal made it clear that an assessment of education in...

THE CLASS IN PHYSICS (Chapter XIII, El Filibusterismo) The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Reign of Greed, by Jose Rizal http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10676/10676-8.txt The classroom was a spacious rectangular hall with large grated windows that admitted an abundance of light and air. Along the two sides extended three wide tiers of stone covered with wood, filled with students arranged in alphabetical order. At the end opposite the entrance, under a print of St. Thomas Aquinas, rose the professor's chair on an elevated platform with a little stairway on each side. With the exception of a beautiful blackboard in a narra frame, scarcely ever used, since there was still written on it the _viva_ that had appeared on the opening day, no furniture, either useful or useless, was to be seen. The walls, painted white and covered with glazed tiles to prevent scratches, were entirely bare, having neither a drawing nor a picture, nor even an outline of any physical apparatus. The students...

Note: “We call it officially ‘K to 12’ not ‘K+12’.” This is what Department of Education Secretary Armin Luistro said while explaining the department’s preference for “K to 12” to refer to DepEd’s flagship “Enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program.” While there are several variations of the 12-year basic education model used abroad with different names such as “K-12”, “K+12”, and “K12”, Luistro said that the DepEd Steering Committee preferred the use of “K to 12” as it “captures the fact that not all features are new.” He said that “K+12” may “mislead people that it’s only 12 years and not a total of 13.” The term “K-12”, on the other hand, is not also used because “it sometimes read wrongly as ‘K minus 12’,” said Luistro. ( http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/358626/deped-it-s-k-to-12 ) K to 12, K-12 or K+12....  What does matter? Should the public be simply debating the name of the curriculum or should we not dissect it to find its elements and weigh each one to se...

Public Elementary Schools Year Number of students (millions) Number of teachers (thousands) Pupil:Teacher ratio 2003 a 12.1 338 36 2006 b 12.1 344 35 2009 c 12.8 358 36 2010 d 13.0 362 36 2011 e 14.3 Public Secondary Schools Year Number of students (millions) Number of teachers (thousands) Pupil:Teacher ratio 2003 a 5.0 121 42 2006 b 5.0 128 39 2009 c 5.5 143 38 2010 d 5.6 146 38 2011 e 5.9 a Department of Education, Basic Education Information System, Quick Counts Data, SY 2003-2004 b Department of Education, Basic Education Information System, Quick Counts Data, SY 2006-2007 c http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/WDE/2010/pdf-versions/Philippines.pdf d http://www.deped.gov.ph/factsandfigures/default.asp e http://www.gov.ph/2011/06/05/deped-schools-ready-to-accommodate-25-7-million-students-tomorrow/ ________________...