Curriculum Guide Bec Tle In Secondary Education
The Philippine BEC. 1. MODULE 2 THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM Teacher Induction Program Teacher Education Council, Department of Education. Lidinila M. Luis - Santos, Ed.D.
Writer Minda C. Sutaria, Ed.D. Reviewer Bernadette S.
Editor All rights reserved. This module may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of the Teacher Education Council, Department of Education. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM MODULE 2 The Philippine Basic Education Curriculum. OBJECTIVES THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM Overview This module is about the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC), which sets the standards for what your students should learn in basic education which in the Philippines is from Grades I-VI and from First Year to Fourth Year high school. It spells out the knowledge, skills, habits and attitudes that your students should learn under your guidance. It is your guide in what to teach, in whatever grade/year level you are assigned. Besides learning about the curriculum, you should also be familiar with the Philippine Education For ALL (EFA) 2015 Plan.
In the module, there are Self Check Questions (SCQs) and Activities to find out for yourself how well you understood what you read. However, you are not to write your answers on the module itself.
Your answers are to be recorded in a notebook or journal which shall be part of your formative evaluation. TEC shall provide the postassessment booklet for summative evaluation.
After studying this module you should be able to do the following: Discuss the goals and critical tasks of the EFA 2015 Plan of Action. Define what a curriculum is and its role in Philippine basic education. Explain the bases of the Philippine basic education curriculum. Discuss the forerunners of the present basic education curriculum. Explain the rationale for restructuring the basic education curriculum. Analyze the structure of the BEC.
Identify samples of the different learning goals. Describe the role of the curriculum in the instructional system.
Use the BEC in planning effective lessons. Assume greater responsibility for enhancing your capabilities to use the BEC as your guide to teaching and learning. I. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Objectives i Preassessment 1 Lesson 1 How Do You Know where You Want To Go? 4 Know Your Curriculum The EFA 2005-2015 Plan of Action 6 Goals of EFA 8 EFA’s Critical Tasks 13 What is a Curriculum? 15 Why Do We Need a Curriculum?
16 Why Do We Have a National Curriculum? 17 How Do We Indigenize/Localize the Curriculum? 18 Why Do We Have a Bilingual Policy? 20 Lesson 2 Why Restructure the Curriculum: A Little Bit of History 23 The National Elementary School Curriculum (NESC) 24 The New Secondary Education Curriculum (NSEC) 26 Evaluation of the NESC and NSEC 26 The Rationale for the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) 29 ii. Lesson 3 I Know the BEC: How Do I Make It Alive? 32 Features of the BEC 33 The Structure of the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum 39 The Philippine Elementary Learning Competencies (PELC) and the Philippine Secondary Learning Competencies (PSLC) 41 Lesson 4 Alive! But How Do I Make The Curriculum Work?
48 The Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Model (CIA) 49 You and the Instructional System 53 The Role of Textbooks and Other Instructional Materials 57 Your Mastery of Subject Matter 57 Answer Key to SCQ’s and Activities 60 Bibliography 68 Appendix 1 Sample Reading Skills 69 Appendix 2 Sample Competencies of Elementary Mathematics: Grade I – VI Comprehension of Whole Numbers 70 Appendix 3 Sample Competencies of Filipino in the Secondary Level 74 iii. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM PREASSESSMENT PREASSESSMENT Don’t be distracted by the title of this section of the module. This is a preliminary survey of what you already know about the topics covered in this module.
Get a sheet of paper and write your answers to the questions. Don’t worry if you cannot answer all of them correctly but try anyway. Keep your answers and compare them with the materials you have studied after each lesson. If you are going to survey the educational status of people in your town, barangay and school, which of the following groups will you find? Check as many as are applicable to your community. Young and old alike who have not attended school at all b.
Children and youth drop-outs c. Adults who have not finished elementary/ secondary schooling d. Pupils/Students who cannot read and write in English/Filipino e.
Pupils/Students who have limited competencies in mathematics f. Others: Please State 2. Would you consider these groups as educationally challenged?
What do you think should our educational system do for them? Have you heard/read something about the Education For ALL 2015 Plan of Action? Will the plan help the disadvantaged groups? Why do you think so? What do you think will be your role in the implementation of the EFA Plan?
MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 1. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM PREASSESSMENT 4. When you hear the word curriculum, what comes to your mind?
What do you know about the curriculum you are going to implement as a teacher? What languages of instruction are you supposed to use in your classes?
What do you know about the bilingual policy? The lingua franca program? What basic education curriculum was being implemented when you were in elementary school/in high school? What subjects did you study? Are you aware of tests conducted to assess the performance of students who were schooled on the NESC & NSEC?
What were some of the findings? Are they good or bad? Have you attended orientation sessions on the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC)? What are the important features of the BEC? Do you know what the Philippine Elementary Learning Competencies (PELC) and the Philippine Secondary Learning Competencies (PSLC) are? Why should you be familiar with these documents as a teacher? MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 2.
TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM PREASSESSMENT 10. Since you are a teacher, what do you know about the relationship among curriculum, instruction and assessment? Why should you be completely knowledgeable of these three components of the instructional system?
When you prepare your lesson plans, how important are the following to you? The PELC / PSLC b. The textbooks for your learning areas c. The methods, strategies, techniques and activities for instruction d. The evaluation measures you are going to use to assess student learnings 12. When you conduct your daily lessons, why are the following important? Congruence among your objectives, strategies and assessment b.
Your knowledge of your subject matter c. Your knowledge of the needs, interests and abilities of your students Well, how many questions were you comfortable answering? As you study each lesson, compare your answers with the materials. If you answered the questions correctly, that’s very good.
Curriculum Guide Bec Tle In Secondary Education
If not, don’t despair. That is the reason this module was prepared. Take note of the topics where you feel inadequate and study them well when you come across them in the module.
MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 3. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM LESSON 1: HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO? KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM LESSON 1 HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO?
KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM INTRODUCTION Lesson I talks about the curriculum and how the curriculum can be used as your guide in going where you want to take your students as you teach. It is discussed using the Education For All (EFA) 2015 Plan of Action as your framework. OBJECTIVES After studying this lesson you should be able to: discuss the EFA 2015 Plan of Action particularly its challenges, goals and critical tasks; relate the EFA tasks to your role as implementor of the curriculum; define what a curriculum is; explain why there is a need for a national curriculum; demonstrate ways of indigenizing or localizing the curriculum; and justify the implementation of the bilingual policy in Philippine schools. MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 4. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM LESSON 1: HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO? KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM READ Imagine yourself riding in an airplane or watching an airplane land. The pilot spots the landing field and looks for the runway.
Upon landing, he follows the runway and guides the airplane until it comes to a stop. If you have gone to the Palarong Pambansa or watched any local athletic meet, you must have heard the crowd cheering the runners as they negotiated the track to reach the finish line. Sometimes the curriculum is likened to a runway or a racetrack. Just like the pilot or the runners, you need a guide when you teach. What do you think would happen if the pilot missed the runway or the runners crossed the field and did not follow the track? Yes, that would be disastrous.
The curriculum is your guide so you will know where to take your students as they study with you. There are goals or milestones they need to reach and all these are spelled out in that document we call the curriculum. But before you learn about the curriculum, there is a very important document you need to be familiar with. This is the Philippine Education For All (EFA) 2015 Plan.
This Plan for Action was developed by different Technical Working Groups (TWGs) of the DepEd who conducted a series of consultations with civil society, education experts, policy makers, teachers and administrators on what needs to be done to improve the quality of Philippine education. The TWGs finalized the EFA Plan of Action, which is to be implemented from the year 2005 until the year 2015. As a teacher, this Plan will serve as your framework for doing your job well as an education stakeholder. MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 5. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM LESSON 1: HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO? KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM The EFA 2015 Plan of Action EFA means Education For All.
EFA is a UNESCO Program. Who are referred to by the catchword ALL? The 1987 Philippine Constitution affirms that education is the birthright of all Filipinos. This means that education should be available to all Filipinos whatever their age, creed, abilities, social and economic status.
Educating all Filipinos is a very great challenge to our educational system. As a teacher, you are partly responsible for addressing this educational challenge. Who are these educationally challenged Filipinos?
The EFA 2015 Plan of Action (DepEd, 2004) identifies the following: 1. Those who are disadvantaged because of inadequate competencies. Inadequate competencies translate into the following conditions: Those who are: not fully functionally literate in the regional language (Ex. Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano) Filipino or English; unable to communicate in English and therefore cannot make use of available knowledge and opportunities in English; and able to communicate in Filipino, but get limited benefits from less abundant existing knowledge and opportunities in the Filipino language, 2.
Those who are disadvantaged in terms of schooling are those children and youth who: were unable to enter school. They are found in the far flung barangays where there are no schools, or in other areas where because of poverty or neglect, they don’t avail of the opportunities for schooling, MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 6. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM LESSON 1: HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO? KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM were unable to finish the full 10 years of basic education. In other words these are the children who drop out before they finish their elementary/ secondary schooling, and were able to finish 10 years of basic schooling, but have not attained the standard 75% mastery of basic competencies. Choose who among these children are educationally challenged. Pedro, Grade III, can read in Filipino but not in English b.
Nancy, drop-out at Grade IV c. Jose and Greg, street children d.
Jane, finished high school, lacks numeracy skills 2. Why do you say they are educationally disadvantaged? (Refer to page 60 for the answers) MODULE 2: THE PHILIPPINE BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM 7. TEACHER INDUCTION PROGRAM LESSON 1: HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO? KNOW YOUR CURRICULUM READ Goals of EFA What does the EFA Plan of Action hope to accomplish by 2015, the end of the implementation period? Let’s analyze each goal by answering the questions.
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You may want to do this with a partner. Universal Functional Literacy The Plan envisions that all Filipinos will be functionally literate by 2015. But how can you tell that they are functionally literate?