K to 12 crucial to IT age — Luistro
EDUCATION Secretary Armin Luistro, speaking during a two-day education summit in Dagupan last week, said the new K to 12 program is necessary for students in this age of information technology.
The K to 12 curriculum, Luistro said, will make significant reforms in the present basic education curriculum which he described as “too tightly cramped up and not responsive to the needs of Filipino students”.
“It is not important that we offer all the subjects to the students because in this age of information, no one cannot cover everything,” said Luistro, keynoting the two-day K to 12 Educational Summit held at the Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU) on Wednesday.
The summit was attended by education officials from Regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
Luistro also underscored that with the K to 12, which will be launched in June, the government is “planting the seeds now which will bear fruits after a full generation.
Students graduating from 6th grade this school year will be the first batch of students that will take the required Grade 7 level under the K to 12 and they will graduate from junior high school in March 2018.
Under K to 12, Grades 7 to 10 is considered “junior high school” while Grades 11 to 12 is “senior high school”.
Meanwhile, the students of kindergarten, now required for all five-year olds, enrolling in June this year will finish and complete the whole curriculum in 2024.
“The most basic requirement is that our students must develop mastery to a certain craft, including arts,” Luistro said.
Alongside the new curriculum, the native or mother tongue in the area will be the medium of instruction for Grades 1, 2 and 3.
Subjects for English and Filipino will be maintained and English will still be the medium of instruction from Grade 4 to higher levels.
For private schools, senior high school will not be compulsory for as long as “some of you choose to be the best junior high schools in the province as well as in the whole region,” Luistro said.
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