Issues and Concerns

in Curriculum
PREPARED BY: CATHLYN JANE L. LORENZO
MAED-FILIPINO

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Textbook, Seats, CR Shortage
SHORTAGE 2014
Textbook 96 million
Chairs 13 million
CR 135, 000 and 62% of
school didn't have a
proper CR

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Classroom, Textbook, Seats and
Computer Package Shortage
Classroom (from 2014-2016) 107, 920
Kinder 49,311
High School (SHS) 57, 021
Technical-Vocational 1,588
Schools
as of May of 2017 51.59
% or 55,680 had been
completed
Pressreader June 05, 2017 Interview to Sec. Leonor Briones

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Classroom, Textbook, Seats and
Computer Package Shortage

Instructional Materials 235.4 million

and other learning
materials
Seats 2.2 million
Table and Chair Sets 66, 492
(for teachers)
Computer Package 44,538

Pressreader, Philippine Daily inquirer June 05, 2017 according to The

Alliance Teachers based on report made by Sec. Briones last 4
November 2016
Teacher Shortage
Vacancies Needed Hired Shortage
Kinder to 196,687 190,530 6,157
Grade 10
SHS 36,788 first batch 8,618
requires
21,868
teachers

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Teacher Shortage

Pressreader, Philippine Daily Inquirer June 05,2017

According to Undersecretary Jesus Mateo, classroom-student-
teacher-pupil ratio over the years reduced by 1:36 and 1:45 in 6

elementary and 1:32 and 1:26 in HS.

 Drop-out Rate

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Source: DepedPh
September 30, 2014
Drop-out Rate
Elementary Schools
Performace 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013
Indicator
Participation 95.92% 97.32% or 95.24%
Rate or Net 14,436,345
Rate
Completion 72.11% 70.96% or 73.67%
Rate 10,141,431
Drop-out Rate 6.29% 6.38% or
or School 915,297
Leavers Rate

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Drop-out Rate
Secondary Schools
Performace 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013
Indicator
Participation 75.06% 74.23% 74.81%
Rate or Net
Rate
Completion 64.74% 64.83% 64. 61%
Rate
Drop-out Rate 7.79% 7.82%
or School
Leavers Rate

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Drop-out Rate
Two partylist lawmakers urged the government to address the increasing dropout rate of students
amid the implementation of the K to 12 program.
ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio, citing the latest Philippine Statistics Authority survey on poverty
indicators, said 3.8 million or one in ten children, aged 6 to 24, are not in school.
"Most of them, or almost 3.3 Million are aged 16 to 24 years old who are supposed to be in senior high
school or college level already. More than half or about 53% of them belong to the poorest families,"
He added that almost 8 percent of Grade 6 students do not graduate and reach Grade 7, while 18
percent of junior high school students do not reach senior high school.

Another ACT Teachers lawmaker, France Castro, said the perennial problems hounding the public
education system and the haphazard implementation of the K to 12 program led to a huge dropout
rate.
Citing data from the Department of Education, the resolution said 4.8 million were out of school in
school year 2015-2016, which is an 11 percent increase in 5 years.

Of this number, out-of-school children in elementary more than tripled from around 431,000 in 2011 to
1.4 million and out-of-school youth in high school remained high with 3.4 million.

Source: Republic of The Philippines News Agency http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1037398 10

Published: June 04, 2018
Drop-out Rate
2. REASONS/CAUSES FOR DROPPING OUT
a. Domestic-Related Factors
"a.1. Had to take care of siblings
a.2. Early marriage/pregnancy
a.3. Parents' attitude toward schooling
a.4. Family problems"
b. Individual-Related Factors
"b.1. Illness
b.2. Overage
b.3. Death
b.4. Drug Abuse
b.5. Poor academic performance
b.6. Lack of interest/Distractions
b.7. Hunger/Malnutrition"
c. School-Related Factors
"c.1. Teacher Factor
c.2. Physical condition of classroom
c.3. Peer influence"
d. Geographic/Environmental
"d.1. Distance between home and school
d.2. Armed conflict (incl. Tribal wars & clanfeuds)
d.3. Calamities/Disasters"

e. Financial-Related
e.1. Child labor, work
f. Others (Specify) 11
Curricular innovations lack the sense
of ownership from stakeholders.
 Most of the curricular innovations are handed down from
the top management. Those who are going to implement
simply tow the line or follow blindly.
 Sometimes the implementers lack of full understanding
of the changes or modifications that they are doing.
 The goal is unclear ,thus there are lot of questions in the
implementation as well as evaluation from the concerned
persons.

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Some curricular are results of bandwagon
but are not well supported by managers.

 In the desire of some schools to be part of the global

educational scenario, changes and innovations are
drastically implemented even if the school is not ready. •
Lack of monitoring and evaluation
 Inadequate monitoring activities to find out the curricular
strengths or weaknesses and problems are being
encountered. • Innovations results to teacher burn out.
 With so many new changes taking place in the
curriculum, many teachers are getting burn out.
 They got tired easily and motivation is very low. It is
because they cannot cope with rapid changes that take
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Innovations are not
communicated at all
 Only the managers or the proponents understand the
changes. Those who are directly involved merely follow
hook line and sinker. This is called regimentation.
 there is politics in education, the legislation formulate
laws that address the crisis in educational system to
catch up with other countries but there is no concrete
guidelines as to how these are to be implemented. Most
educational experts has no experience in the field.

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Responses to Issues and
Concerns
Globalization of Education
 The BEC is an example of an innovation that tries to address the
continuous decline in learner's performance in basic education.
 from system 6-4-4

 In the installation of a new curriculum, all stakeholders should be

involved.
 Even in the planning stage, consultations should be held. This process will provide each
interested sector or persons to help make decisions as to whether the innovation will be
introduced or not.
 There is a respond to the fast changing times in terms of school
curriculum innovations.
 A thorough study should be made to establish readiness for all concerned.
 Initial preparation for the implementation to ensure the provision of the necessary materials and
appropriate knowledge about the innovation should be assured.

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 Collaboration in the implementation of a new curriculum
is very necessary.
 General practice seems to show that when a new
curriculum is introduced, it ends without result.

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Diferrence of old curriculum to
K to 12
2002 BEC K TO 12
ENTRY
AGE
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
16-17 Grade 11 to 12

HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Years 1 to 4 12-15 Grade 7 to 10
GRADE SCHOOL GRADE SCHOOL
6-11
Years 1 to 6 Years 1 to 6
OPTIONAL MANDATORY
PRESCHOOL 5 KINDERGARTEN

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Other responses
Building schools and classrooms
Hiring of teachers
Scholarship Grants for deserving students and
PWDs
Teacher salary increase proposal

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Ways to help improve the curriculum

 RA 8525 o Adopt-a-School Program

 Learning support
 Assistance for health and nutrition
 Reading program
 Technological support
 Direct assistance
 Trainings and Seminars for teachers

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 End

Thank You!

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