“Change is not always a good thing. It may force us out of tired habits and or impose better ones upon us, but it can also be stressful costly and even destructive. When change makes us better, it’s because we have learned to turn a challenging situation to our own advantage, not merely because change happens.”
- Rick Newman
Everything changes; something needs to change in order to conform to the changing world – how people live, communicate and treat each other – and to the changing needs of every individual in the world – how people’s characters and beliefs are shaped.
These changes that people undergo nowadays, present new challenges, and put new demands on everything, most especially the education system. Since, there has been a growing
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The group proposed the increase to 12 years. Moreover, high school graduates were observed to have inadequate basic competencies including mature disposition essential in real life outside the school, thus making them unfit for university education and that those who do not pursue collegiate education become vulnerable to exploitative labor practices.
Through extensive research and consultation, it was found that a twelve-year program is the best period for learning under the basic education. It is also the known standard for learners and professionals globally.
In response to the perennial demand for quality education, particularly at the basic education level, the Philippines enacted Republic Act (R.A.) 10533 otherwise known as Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013. The implementation of the K – to – 12 Basic Education Program is also the country’s commitment to the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) integration thrust that aims to synchronize and harmonize the educational systems with each other to enable the region to integrate fully into the global
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Moreover, the K to 12 Curriculum Primer (2014) underscores the salient features of the K to 12 Program as follows: intensification of early childhood education (universal kindergarten), building the curriculum applicable to learners (contextualization and enhancement). The program also ensures included and faultless learning (spiral progression), building expertise through language (mother tongue-based multilingual education), gearing up for the future (senior high school), and cultivating the holistically developed Filipino (college and livelihood readiness, and 21st - century skills).
With the above-mentioned features of the K to 12 curricula, serving as the foci of several training activities of school administrators and teachers from Grade 7 to 10. This makes the people involved in the Program better equip and become efficient and effective agents in the anticipated changes in classroom practices and be able to respond accordingly to the learners’ quest for quality education as envisioned by the K to 12