Globalization continues in and out of every nation especially the Philippines. Advancement of information and communication technology seems to become a lifestyle of citizens therein. Thus, DepED Secretary Leonor "Liling" M. Briones underscored "Knowledge is Changing". As a result of it, DepED agreed with other countries for the putting up of several education intervention programs in the department. Countries like Australia, USA, Japan and other nations spent much money and even persons just to improve learners' outcome of Filipino students.
Recently, Sec. Briones urged the parents to help their children learn the internet as a study form of habit not for gaming and leisure. If knowledge is changing, definitely culture might also be changing. Commonly-said "There's no such permanent thing in this world except change." is just a simple basis to support it. If we try to glean the Philippine culture five decades ago, what can we comment on the current lifestyles of Filipinos? Diversity among nation's cultures is undeniably founded on its similar features. Historically, all countries' cultures enjoyed influences with one another due to their established relationships for growth and prosperity.
Sec. Briones is right to say that Philippines has already her own educational system, the K to 12 Curriculum. It's needless to adopt Singapore Curriculum, the best educational system in Asia or even Finland Curriculum, the best educational system in the world. Philippine K to 12 Curriculum is not yet stable in the present Philippine educational system. Adoption of it is still in the midst of insincerity of the parents, policymakers and many sectors of walks of life. Even DepED, there are still school officials and teachers who could hardly fulfill the holistic demands of the K to 12 Curriculum because of their contradictions to some features of it. I guess it is already a manifestation of the sayings that "culture is changing". Today's Filipinos are quick to become rejecters of change. DepED curriculum has been going on changing for several decades ago. Teachers' attitude is vulnerable for its acceptance and rapid implementation.
According to the trainers of K to 12 Curriculum that one of the main reasons of the Philippines for the acquisition of K to 12 was most of the countries adopted it. Hence, Filipino students could hardly beat global competitions. In the adoption of K to 12 Curriculum, is there no foreign cultural influence? In DepED, I am as old as 31-year-old gentleman. It has been three times for the DepED to continue paving the path of her curriculum. Firstly, it was BEC (Basic Education Curriculum); secondly, it was RBEC (Restructured Basic Education Curriculum; and thirdly, it is now the K to 12 Curriculum.
What matters most is the 'best practices' employed by the curriculum to impact learner's outcome in any type of assessment. The pattern of K to 12 Curriculum is after global design, but it suits our Philippine culture. In similar manner, 'best practices' of Singapore, Finland and China may be looked into by Philippine DepED; otherwise; there are of those 'best practices' that would suit Filipino culture. Every time failure comes in our learners, curriculum is always the shoulder of the blame. Is it a Filipino culture?
English language perhaps is already a part of Philippine culture since it is an official language of the Philippines. How did DepED customize English language into Filipino culture? How many years did she take for that obstacle? If we conduct assessment on it, what is the level of performance of the Filipino people in adopting that culture? For the newly-born Filipino children expected to be Grade 2 learners, will they not be confused with alienated sounds of the English vowel letters like Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo and Uu compared to most dialects of the Philippines?
How do you produce the sounds of these words, walk, evening, night, dot, cum?
Recently, Sec. Briones urged the parents to help their children learn the internet as a study form of habit not for gaming and leisure. If knowledge is changing, definitely culture might also be changing. Commonly-said "There's no such permanent thing in this world except change." is just a simple basis to support it. If we try to glean the Philippine culture five decades ago, what can we comment on the current lifestyles of Filipinos? Diversity among nation's cultures is undeniably founded on its similar features. Historically, all countries' cultures enjoyed influences with one another due to their established relationships for growth and prosperity.
Sec. Briones is right to say that Philippines has already her own educational system, the K to 12 Curriculum. It's needless to adopt Singapore Curriculum, the best educational system in Asia or even Finland Curriculum, the best educational system in the world. Philippine K to 12 Curriculum is not yet stable in the present Philippine educational system. Adoption of it is still in the midst of insincerity of the parents, policymakers and many sectors of walks of life. Even DepED, there are still school officials and teachers who could hardly fulfill the holistic demands of the K to 12 Curriculum because of their contradictions to some features of it. I guess it is already a manifestation of the sayings that "culture is changing". Today's Filipinos are quick to become rejecters of change. DepED curriculum has been going on changing for several decades ago. Teachers' attitude is vulnerable for its acceptance and rapid implementation.
According to the trainers of K to 12 Curriculum that one of the main reasons of the Philippines for the acquisition of K to 12 was most of the countries adopted it. Hence, Filipino students could hardly beat global competitions. In the adoption of K to 12 Curriculum, is there no foreign cultural influence? In DepED, I am as old as 31-year-old gentleman. It has been three times for the DepED to continue paving the path of her curriculum. Firstly, it was BEC (Basic Education Curriculum); secondly, it was RBEC (Restructured Basic Education Curriculum; and thirdly, it is now the K to 12 Curriculum.
What matters most is the 'best practices' employed by the curriculum to impact learner's outcome in any type of assessment. The pattern of K to 12 Curriculum is after global design, but it suits our Philippine culture. In similar manner, 'best practices' of Singapore, Finland and China may be looked into by Philippine DepED; otherwise; there are of those 'best practices' that would suit Filipino culture. Every time failure comes in our learners, curriculum is always the shoulder of the blame. Is it a Filipino culture?
English language perhaps is already a part of Philippine culture since it is an official language of the Philippines. How did DepED customize English language into Filipino culture? How many years did she take for that obstacle? If we conduct assessment on it, what is the level of performance of the Filipino people in adopting that culture? For the newly-born Filipino children expected to be Grade 2 learners, will they not be confused with alienated sounds of the English vowel letters like Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo and Uu compared to most dialects of the Philippines?
How do you produce the sounds of these words, walk, evening, night, dot, cum?
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