Kto12 Curriculum

REPUBLIC ACT 10533 Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013

Signed by Benigno aquino lll

WHAT IS K-12 PROGRAM?

The K to 12 Program 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 [SHS]) 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.

Outcome Goals of the K to 12 Basic Education Program

The K to 12 Basic Education Program seeks to realize the following:
Philippine education standards to be at par with international standards;
more emotionally mature graduates equipped with technical and/ or vocational
skills who are better prepared for work, middle level skills development and higher
education;
significantly addressed shortages or gaps in educational inputs (teacher items,
school head items, classrooms, instructional materials) addressed significantly;
broadened and strengthened stakeholders support in the improvement of basic
education outcomes;
improved internal efficiency;
improved system of governance in the Department;
improved quality of teachers;

Salient features of k-12

STRENGTHENING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (UNIVERSAL

KINDERGARTEN)
Every Filipino child now has access to early childhood education through
Universal Kindergarten. At 5 years old, children start schooling and are given the
means to slowly adjust to formal education.
MAKING THE CURRICULUM RELEVANT TO LEARNERS
(CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT)
Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations are based on
local culture, history, and reality. This makes the lessons relevant to the learners
and easy to understand.
Students acquire in-depth knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through
continuity and consistency across all levels and subjects.
BUILDING PROFICIENCY THROUGH LANGUAGE (MOTHER
TONGUE-BASED MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION)
Students are able to learn best through their first language, their Mother
Tongue (MT). Twelve (12) MT languages have been introduced for SY
2012-2013: Bahasa Sug, Bikol, Cebuano, Chabacano, Hiligaynon, Iloko,
Kapampangan, Maguindanaoan, Meranao, Pangasinense, Tagalog, and Waray.
Other local languages will be added in succeeding school years.
ENSURING INTEGRATED AND SEAMLESS LEARNING (SPIRAL
PROGRESSION)
Subjects are taught from the simplest concepts to more complicated concepts
through grade levels in spiral progression. As early as elementary, students gain
knowledge in areas such as Biology, Geometry, Earth Science, Chemistry, and
Algebra. This ensures a mastery of knowledge and skills after each level.
GEARING UP FOR THE FUTURE (SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL)
Senior High School is two years of specialized upper secondary education;
students may choose a specialization based on aptitude, interests, and school
capacity.

CORE CURRICULUM
There are seven Learning Areas under the Core Curriculum. These are
Languages, Literature, Communication, Mathematics, Philosophy, Natural
Sciences, and Social Sciences. Current content from some General Education
subjects are embedded in the SHS curriculum.
TRACKS
Each student in Senior High School can choose among three tracks:
Academic; Technical-Vocational-Livelihood; and Sports and Arts. The Academic
track includes three strands: Business, Accountancy, Management (BAM);
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences (HESS); and Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics (STEM).
Students undergo immersion, which may include earn-while-you-learn
opportunities, to provide them relevant exposure and actual experience in their
chosen track.
TVET (TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING) NATIONAL
CERTIFICATE
After finishing Grade 10, a student can obtain Certificates of Competency
(COC) or a National Certificate Level I (NC I). After finishing a
Technical-Vocational-Livelihood track in Grade 12, a student may obtain a
National Certificate Level II (NC II), provided he/she passes the
competency-based assessment of the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA).
NC I and NC II improves employability of graduates in fields like Agriculture,
Electronics, and Trade.
NURTURING THE HOLISTICALLY DEVELOPED FILIPINO (COLLEGE AND
LIVELIHOOD READINESS, 21ST CENTURY SKILLS)
After going through Kindergarten, the enhanced Elementary and Junior High
curriculum, and a specialized Senior High program, every K to 12 graduate will be
ready to go into different paths may it be further education, employment, or
entrepreneurship.
Every graduate will be equipped with:
Information, media and technology skills,
Learning and innovation skills,
 Effective communication skills, and
Life and career skills.

Kto12 SHS Voucher Program

This program enables Grade 10 completers from public and private Junior High Schools (JHS) to
enroll in a (1) private high school, (2) private university or college, (3) state or local university or
college, or (4) technical-vocational school, which will offer the Senior High School program
starting School Year 2016-2017.

Through the Voucher Program, students and their families are able to exercise greater choice in
deciding the Senior High School program that is most relevant to their needs and career goals. A
certain amount will be subsidized by DepEd to private SHS to offset the cost of tuition.

Free Tuition

The grant shall be known as the 2017 Free Tuition Policy in SUCs; it shall
henceforth be referred to as "Free Tuition 2017".

Singed by President Rodrigo Duterte

Over 135 SCUs covered by free tuition as of this August 2017

COVERAGE

The policy shall cover all Filipino students enrolling in undergraduate course
programs in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) for the Academic Year
2017-2018, subject to the prioritization directive of the President and the
availability of funds in the Higher Education Support Fund (HESE).

RATIONALE

The guidelines on the grant of Free Tuition 2017, jointly issued by the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Budget and
Management (DBM), aim to ensure proper implementation of the special
provisions in the 2017 General Appropriations Act (GAA) subject to the
Conditional Implementation ordered by the President.

Special Provision No. 2 under Other Executive Offices (0E0)-CHED, Volume

I-B, page 272

Higher Education Support Fund. The amount of Eight Billion Pesos

(P8,000,000,000) appropriated herein under provision for Higher Education
Support Program shall be allocated to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs)
based on the estimated income from tuition fees of the respective SUCs as
indicated in the statement of receipts and expenditures of SUCs in the 2017
Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing (BESF). The amount herein
appropriated shall be used for the priority programs and projects of the SUCs.
Release of funds shall be subject to the submission of a Special Budget pursuant
to Section-35, Chapter 5, Book VI of E.O. No. 292, S. 1987. The specific
guidelines and procedures for the use of this fund shall be issued by the CHED
and the DBM in consultation with the SUCs.

1.2 Special Provision No. 1 under SUCs, Special Provision(s) Applicable to

the SUCs, Volume I-A, page 963

Tuition Fees and School Charges. SUCs are authorized to collect tuition fees
and other necessary school charges in accordance with R.A. No. 8292; provided
that starting the first semester of SY 2017 Page 1 of 9 2018, no tuition fee shall
be collected from undergraduate students. The SUCs shall charge the Higher
Education Support Fund in lieu of the income from tuition fees.

CONDITIONAL IMPLEMENTATION.

Specifically, the content of the President's message is as follows: ...Yet as

with all new programs, there is a need to safeguard the proper implementation of
the provision of free tuition fee. It is important to underscore that we must still give
priority to financially disadvantaged but academically able students. We must
also acknowledge that the Constitution likewise provides that the right to choose
a profession or course of study is still subject to fair and equitable admission and
academic requirements. Accordingly, the CHED and the DBM shall issue the
necessary guidelines which shall include, among others, the standards and
procedure for entitlement and availment of free tuition by students of SUCs as
well as proper mechanism for the SUCs to tap the Higher Education Support
Fund.

ASEAN INTEGRATION

The ASEAN was founded on the 8 day of August, 1967. The five founding fathers:
Malaysia Indonesia Philippines Singapore Thailand

The 10 member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are:

Philippines Brunei Cambodia Indonesia , Laos Malaysia Myanmar Singapore Thailand
Vietnam

Pillars of ASEAN Community ASEAN Political Security Community build a peaceful,

democratic and harmonious ASEAN Community ASEAN Economic Community free
movement of goods, services, investment, skilled labor, and freer flow of capital ASEAN
Socio Cultural Community create a people-oriented and socially responsible ASEAN.

AEC has three goals: (1) the integration of ten economic communities by 2015, (2)
making the ASEAN community as a socially responsible, socio-cultural community. (3)
having peaceful cooperation among member nations. The AEC would involve the
free-flow of goods, services, investments, and capital among the member nations.

Asean Economic Community (AEC), the responsibility of education is to make the

lives of as many people as possible better, to help make sure no one gets left behind, and
everyone is prepared to face the opportunities and challenges of the regional economy.
To live up to this responsibility, education must ensure employability. The ultimate point is
that if education is to reduce unemployment and increase incomes, training must lead to
jobs.

The best way for the education system to do this is to enhance the employability of
our youth, which will only happen if business and educational institutions come together
to shape, design and jointly deliver academic and training programs. As the late great
Nelson Mandela said: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world. This is good for Filipinos because there will be a wider door for job
markets in the region. But then, the job market will be tougher. We have to compete with
other qualified applicants from the region.

In terms of education, the implementation of the K-12 is a step being undertaken by

the Department of Education to be able to keep the countrys educational standards up to
par with the other countries. 8 ways PH higher education can prepare for ASEAN 2015 1.
Policy framework for ASEAN 2. Expansion of ASEAN University Network (AUN)
membership 3. Mutual recognition of university degrees 4. Synchronization of academic
calendar 5. State of ASEAN studies 6. Student and faculty mobility 7. Regional
scholarships 8. Collaboration in research and extension