National Education

Summit
January 31 – February 1, 2008
Manila Hotel
 Ano ang Education Summit?

 Solusyon  “lumalalang” school system

 Hadlang sa global student competitiveness
 Graduates  ill-trained for the job market
 Agenda
 Student performance  a “zero-dropout” rate in schools
 Teachers’ competencies especially in Math, Science and
English
 “Mismatch” between graduates and the job skills that are
actually ‘in demand’
President: Sectors should shape up
 Education system trifocalized = in 1994
 DepEd
 CHED
 TESDA
 Executive Order No. 652 (Presidential Task
Force for Education)
 Teachers retrained = 24 units of English
 Children were prepared = at least a year in
preschool or day care before entering Grade 1
 Teachers’ Retraining
 Priority = lowest 5 % of the total number of
schools nationwide (+ supplemental learning
materials for students)
 More manageable classroom size = 45 students
per classroom
 Statistics
 DepEd
 35% of Filipino Children are “Grade 1-ready”
 5.6 M aged 6-11 years old – OSY (*)
 IBON Foundation:
 drop-out 7.7% (2001) 10.6% (2005) elementary level
 8.5% to 15.8% secondary levels
 11.6 M = illiterate
 Criticisms
 Long-standing controversy
 Social, economic, political factors come to play
 Ambitious
 Alleviate poverty and elevate the country to a First
World status within the next 20 years
 VERY long term
 While we are too busy of what language to use
as a medium of instruction, we forgot to teach
our students how to think (Acuña 1994)
 References
 Contreras, Volt and Michael Lim Ubac. Education
summit aims to fix mess in RP schools. Retrieved 6
February 2008 from
<http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation
/view/20080201-116090/Education-summit-aims-to-
fix-mess-in-RP-schools>
 Students call for ‘overhaul’ in education system.
Retrieved 6 February 2008 from
<http://www.lfs.ph/2008/01/29/students-call-for-
overhaul-in-education-system/>