K to 12 Program Updates

Basic Education Program

Elementary

Junior
High
School

Kinder to Grade 6
Grades 7 to 8
(Exploratory TLE)

Grades 9 to 10
(Specialized TLE)

Tracks
Applied Track Subjects

Senior
High
School

Academic
Track

Core
Subjects o General

Academic
Strand
o STEM
o ABM
o HUMSS

Technical
Vocational
Livelihood
Track

o Home
Economics
o AgriFishery
o Industrial
Arts
o ICT

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Sports
Track

Arts &
Design
Track

Department of Education
Major Final Output

Access

Quality

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Governance

K to 3
Ensures that basic literacy and numeracy competencies are learned
through the use of the Mother Tongue
Done

To be done

Curriculum

Checking for alignment of K to 3 language curricula

(Mother Tongue, Filipino and English) (February 2015)

Learners
Materials
and
Teachers
Guides

1. Revision of Kinder and Grade 1 LMs and TGs (all

subjects) (March 2015)
2. Readiness Activity Sheets to be revised and
contextualized to 19 languages (April to May 2015)
3. Review/Development of the prototype indigenized
activities of the Catch Up Learning Package
(June/July 2015)

Conducted the Early

Language, Literacy and
Teacher
Numeracy Training for
Training
all regions Batch 1
(October 2014)

Assessment

Revised NAT Grade 3

(September 2014 to
January 2015)

Conducted the Early Language, Literacy and

Numeracy Training for all regions Batch 2 (March
2015)

1. EGRA and EGMA field validation (March 2015)

2. Review of SREYA Manual (April 2015)
3. Development and validation of Kinder report card
(May 2015)
4. EGRA and EGMA baseline data gathering (CAR,
Caraga, Regions V, VIII and IX) (June 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

4 to 6
Provides opportunities for enhancement and application of learned
literacy and numeracy competencies to varied content areas
Done
For the Special Science Elementary
School (SSES):
a. Redefined Guidelines for
Implementation (December
2014)
Curriculum
b. Enhance the Math and
Science curriculum vis-a-vis
the K to 12 Basic Education
Program (December 2014)
Learners
Materials and
Teachers
Guides

To be done
Revisit the English Curriculum

1. Development of Grade 4 LMs

and TGs
2. Textbook call for Grades 5
and 6

Planning for the National Training of

Teacher
Trainers and the Mass Training of
Training
Grade 4 Teachers (April May 2015)
For the SSES: developed two sets of
admission tests in Math and Science
Assessment
for incoming Grade 4 students
(December 2014)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

7 to 10
Guarantees that learned competencies are further enhanced in the
context of more varied opportunities for application in each content
area
Being done
Curriculum Review of Special Program curricula
Learners Development of Grade 10 LMs and TGs
Materials and
Teachers Guides
Teacher Training

Planning for the National Training of Trainers and the

Mass Training of Grade 10 Teachers (April May 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

7 to 10
Interest Programs for Junior High School
Help develop youth interests for career guidance

Includes the following:

a.Science and Technology Education
b.Sports
c. Arts
d.Journalism
e. Foreign Languages
f. Technical-Vocational Livelihood

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

7 to 10 Interest Programs for Junior High School

Help develop youth interests for career guidance
Science and Technology Education
Done

Curriculum

Learners
Materials and
Teachers
Guide

Teacher
Training

Supervisors
Training

Others

Sports

To be done

Reviewed
the Special
Science
Curriculum

Done

To be done

CGs:
1. Develop
(August 11-15, 2014)
2. Validate
(January 26-30, 2015)
3. Finalize
(February 2-6, 2015)
Develop, Validate and Finalize TGs
and LMs for Enriched STEM
Curriculum

Develop Learning
Exemplars

Train teachers on:

1. Research I
2. Grade 7 Enriched Science
Curriculum
3. Grade 7 Enriched Mathematics
Curriculum

1. Training on ThirdLevel Coaching (May,

2015)
2. Train on Coaching for
Beginners (May,
2015)
3. Train on the
Physical Fitness Test
(October 2015)

Training of Science Education

Supervisors and Coordinators
1. M&E of Program
Implementation (including the
Enriched STEM Curriculum)
2. School Mapping of Legislated
Science HS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Monitoring and
Evaluation (August to
December 2015)

7 to 10
Interest Programs for Junior High School
Help develop youth interests for career guidance
Arts
Done
Curriculum

Learners Materials
and Teachers Guide

Teacher Training

Supervisors Training

Others

Journalism
To be done

Done

To be done

Curriculum Enhancement
Review and Revision of
Grade 7 LMs (May, 2015)

Revise/refine CGs in
the 6 Arts areas
(Quarters 2 & 3 2014)
Develop Lesson
Exemplars in the 6
Arts areas
(Quarters 2 & 3 2015)

Profile Development of
SPA Teachers
[new/old] (May, 2015)
Consultative
Conference with
Principals and
Supervisors (June,
2015)
Monitoring and
Evaluation
(Quarter 4 2015)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

1. Validation of G7 LMs
(May, 2015)
2. Finalization of G7 LMs
(June, 2015)
3. Review and Revision of
G7 TGs (June, 2015)
4. Validation and
Finalization of G7 TGs

7 to 10 Interest Programs for Junior High School

Help develop youth interests for career guidance

Technical-Vocational Livelhood Education

Curriculum

Learners Materials
and Teachers Guide

Done

To be done

1. Curriculum review and alignment of

modeling public Senior High
Schools to the K to 12 Curriculum
(September 2014)
2. Tracer Study on the Senior High
School Modeling School graduates
(September 2014)

1. Curriculum Guides for 29 new

Tech-Voc specializations
(September 2014 to present)
2. Alignment of STVEP CompetencyBased Curriculum for JHS to K to
12 Tech-Voc curriculum (October
to November 2015)
Development, Review and Evaluation
of LMs and TGs for SHS TechVoc
Track (March, April and May 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

7 to 10 Interest Programs for Junior High School

Help develop youth interests for career guidance
Foreign Languages
Done

GERMAN
Face-to-Face Followthrough (January 18 to
March 29, 2014)
Face-to-Face Followthrough (August 27 to
March 6, 2014)
MANDARIN
Language Conference
(December 2014)

Teacher
Training

Technical-Vocational Livelhood Education

To be done

SPANISH
Immersion Program
Summer Training
DELE Training
On-line Training Course

Done

1.

2.
GERMAN
Summer Training
Immersion Program
3.
JAPANESE
Face-to-Face Follow-through
Summer Training
Immersion Program (June to
July 2015)
Proposed 2-month Intensive
Training (June to July 2015)

4.

MANDARIN
Follow-through and
Mentoring (June 2014 to
March 2015)
Summer Training (April to
May, 2015)
FRENCH
Face-to-Face Follow-through
Summer Training
Immersion
ProgramOF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT

Skills and
training
assessment
(April to May
2014)
Trainers
Methodology
Training
(October 2014)
Training in
Technical High
Schools in
Japan (JICA
Pilot Project
Sites) (October
2014)
Training
Workshop for
School-Industry
Linkage
Coordinators
(November
2014)

To be done

1.

2.

Skills and training

assessment (April
2015)
Trainers Methodology
Training (April to May
2015)

Inclusion Programs
Increase access to education
Done

Special
Education
(SPED)

1. Harvested multi-factored assessment items

from existing SPED assessment tools by
exceptionality (November 2014)
2. Consolidated the multi-factored assessment
items (December 2014)
3. Started the articulation of SPED programs
in elementary, secondary and alternative
learning system (February 2015)
4. Initiating the reprogramming of SPED in the
K to 12 curriculum (February 2015)

1. Omnibus unified policy of the

multigrade program
2. Re-articulated SPED Program

1.

1.

2.

Multigrade
(MG)
Program

To be done

3.

Conducted a consultative and multigrade

policy analysis workshop (September 2014)
Revising and finalizing the implementation
guidelines of the multigrade education
program (September 2014 present)
Developed the Budget of Work for MG in all
learning areas with reference to the K to 12
Basic Education Program alignment of
competencies for combination classes:
Grades 1 and 2, Grades 3 and 4, and
Grades 5 and 6 (December 2014)

2.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Implementation guidelines of the

multigrade education program
Budget of Work for MG in all
learning areas with reference to
the K to 12 Basic Education
Program alignment of
competencies for the different
class combinations of the
Multigrade Education Program

Inclusion Programs
Increase access to education

Indigenous
Peoples
Education
(IPEd)

Office of
Muslim
Education
(OME)

Done

To be done

1. Issued the following DepEd Orders:

a. DepEd Order No. 51, s. 2014:
Guidelines on the Conduct of
Activities and Use of Materials
Involving Aspects of Indigenous
Peoples Culture
b. DepEd Order No. 21, s. 2014:
Guidelines on the Recognition of
Private Learning Institutions
Serving Indigenous Peoples
Learners
2. 15 regions (100 divisions) provided
with IPEd Program Support Fund
(PSF) implemented their respective
2014 IPEd Work and Financial Plans
(WFPs) focused on 3 thematic focus
areas (community engagement and
partnership-building, education
planning for IPEd and capacity
building)

1. IP Ed Curriculum Framework (March

2015)
2. Continuous capacity building of 140 IPEd
Focal Persons from the ROs and DOs
aligned with systems strengthening and
IPEd Program institutionalization
3. Release IPEd Program Support Fund (PSF)
to 15 regions and 100 divisions to support
implementation of their respective IPEd
WFPs (will be focused on the following:
curriculum and learning resources
development, capacity building and
education planning for IPEd)
4. Targets by 2016
a. 9,600 IP pupils provided access to
culture-based education through
service-contracting (K to 6)
b. Provide education access to 300 priority
sites in geographically isolated and
disadvantaged areas (GIDA)

Conducted a consultative policy

analysis workshop

1.
2.

Road map for muslim education

Validated private madaris

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Alternative Learning System (ALS) Curriculum

Aligning the ALS Learning Strands with the K to 10 Subjects
ALS
MATERIALS

Alternative Learning System (ALS) Curriculum

Aligning the ALS Learning Strands with the K to 12 Subjects
ALS
LMs

Learners Materials and Teachers Guides

I.

LMs and TGs are aligned with the K to 12 curriculum for the following
grades:
1. Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2 and 3
a. Activity Workbooks for Kindergarten every year
b. K to 3 contextualized materials
2. Grades 7, 8 and 9

II.

Grades 4 and 10 LMs and TGs are being developed now and will be used
for next year.

Grade/
Level

Manuscript

Mother

Contextualized

Hard Copy

Curriculum

Year printed

K to12

2012

IMCS

K to12

2012

With ROs

With ROs

K to12

2013

K to12

2014

Via textbook call

BEC

Via textbook call

BEC

Via textbook call

BEC

K to12

2012

K to12

2013

K to12

2014

4th Year

Via textbook call

BEC, 2010 SEC

Learners Materials and Teachers Guides

What is the plan for the future?

1. Processes for the textbook call for Grades 5 and 6 and Grades 11
and 12 have been started.
2. Processes involved in the instructional materials development are
being polished.
3. Re-development of Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 7 materials (and
other materials as needed)
4. Supplementary reading and reference materials are being reevaluated.
5. Library/library hubs and attendant services are being planned with
private sector partners.

Learners Materials and Teachers Guides

What should be out in 2015? In the next two years?
Grade

SY first
required

year
printed/
procured

2012-13

2012

Activity workbooks

2012-13

2012

New or redeveloped
IMs

2013-14

2013

2014-15

2014

2015-16

--

2016-17

--

New IMs

2017-18

--

New IMs

2012-13

2012

2013-14

2013

2014-15

2014

10

2015-16

--

11

2016-17

--

IMs

12

2017-18

--

IMs

2015

2016

Activity workbooks

2017

Activity workbooks

New or redeveloped
IMs
New or redeveloped
IMs
New IMs

New or redeveloped
IMs
New or redeveloped
IMs

New IMs

Learners Materials and Teachers Guides

What is the plan? (IMs timeline)

Grade

2015

I.

Review, redevelopment and contextualization

(National Kindergarten CG, Activity
Workbook, 40-Week Plan)
II. Printing/procurement (Activity workbooks,
consumables)

Review, redevelopment and contextualization of

IMs

Review, redevelopment and contextualization of

IMs

I.

Printing of IMs

Procurement of IMs through Textbook Call

Procurement of IMs through Textbook Call

Review and redevelopment

Review and redevelopment

Printing (Science & SEP)

Printing of remaining IMs (Science, ESP, &

AP)
II. Review and procurement (regional resource
book)

10

Printing of IMs

11

Procurement of IMs through Commissioning

12

Procurement of IMs through Commissioning

2016
Printing/procurement
New or redeveloped IMs
Activity workbooks,
consumables

2017
Printing/procurement
Activity
workbooks,
consumables

Learners Materials and Teachers Guides

How is it done? (Processes involved in the development and
production of IMs)

REVIEW

Matched with LCs/Curriculum?

Yes
Updated?

No

Off-the-Shelf
Procurement

Call for Development

DEVELOPMENT

In-House
Development

Commissioning

Text Book
Call

QA

MM

Passed?

PRODUCTION
Yes

Procure/ Print

IMs
Delivery

In-House Development

Matching IMs
with
LCs/Curriculum

Edit
existing
IMs
Write new
materials

Q1-4,
(LMs & TG)

Final?

3
5

General
Review

New/
redeveloped IM

Content
Review
11

Language
Review

Agree on and
Input revisions
8

Lay-out
manuscript
10

Review

Print
draft
Draft

13

Input
revisions

manuscript
Q1-4,
(LMs & TG)

12

BEE, BSE, BALS

(Focal Persons, Writers)

14

Final?

Input
corrections

Print
15

IMs

Review

Final?
IMCS

Pool of Experts

Printer

Senior High School

DepEd SHS Indicative* Plans: National Summary
SY 2016

SY 2017

No. of Gr 11 students from DepEd HS**

1.2M1.6M

1.2M1.6M

No. of students in DepEd SHS

0.8M1.1M

0.8M1.1M

No. of students to transfer to Non-DepEd

SHS

0.4M0.5M 0.4M0.5M

Estimated no. of SHS classrooms needed

(40 students : 1 classroom)

Estimated no. of SHS teachers needed

(9 teachers : 6 sections)

20k28k

20k28k

30k41k

30k41k

Total no. of DepEd Junior HS (as of SY 2013)

7,914

Indicative no. of current DepEd HS to offer

SHS

5,020

Indicative no. of proposed DepEd stand-alone

SHS

5,216
196

*Plans as of January 14, 2015; final plans by March 31, 2015

**Gr 11-12 enrollees may include ALS completers and HS graduates from previous 2015 and earlier
years who were unable to proceed to or complete post-secondary education
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Senior High School

DepEd SHS Indicative* Plans: Program Distribution
No. of Schools

No. of Student
Slots

4,191

1.14M

50.6%

1,023

194k

8.7%

1,316

212k

9.5%

HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences)

1,232

171k

7.6%

General Academic

3,597

558k

24.9%

4,253

1.04M

46.5%

Arts and Design

209

32k

1.4%

Sports

186

32k

1.4%

Academic
STEM (S&T, Engineering, Mathematics)
ABM (Accountancy, Business and
Management)

Technical-Vocational-Livelihood

*Plans as of January 14, 2015; final plans by March 31, 2015

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Senior High School

Proposed SHS Voucher Program
Enable Gr 10 finishers from DepEd JHS to enroll in non-DepEd SHS (private
HS, private HEIs, SUCs/LUCs offering Gr 11-12)
2. Provide ongoing financial assistance to ESC beneficiaries of private HS when
they reach Gr 11-12
3. Voucher amounts aligned with cost of public provision at most, we spend
on a non-DepEd SHS student the equivalent of what we spend on a DepEd
SHS student
4. Voucher amount dependent on the location and type of non-DepEd SHS, and
whether student came from public or private JHS
1.

Full Amount
(100%)*

For Private JHS

Finishers**
(80%)

For SUCs and

LUCs (50%)

Tier 1

P22,500

P18,000

P11,250

Tier 2

P20,000

P16,000

P10,000

Tier 3

P17,500

P14,000

P8,750

Tier

*Proposed voucher amounts are under review and may increase if estimates of cost of public provision increases
**Gr 10 finishers who are ESC beneficiaries are automatically eligible to receive SHS vouchers; Gr 10 finishers who are
not ESC beneficiaries may apply for SHS vouchers; requirements for the latter group will be covered by new DepEd
guidelines
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Senior High School

Status of SHS Permits for Non-DepEd Schools

274
1,116

Private schools* with SHS permits beginning

in SY 2014 or 2015

Applications* for SHS permits for SY 2016

that will be evaluated by March 31, 2015

*Data on applications for SHS permits are as of March 5, 2015.

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DepEd Junior HS

DepEd Senior HS

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Sample DepEd SHS Maps: Albay

27

Sample DepEd SHS Maps: Albay

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CARE

Regular
Elementary
Programs

Integrated
Programs

Informal Education
Programs
A & E Elementary

ECCD Early
Assessment
and
Intervention
Programs

Hospital/
Institutional Care/
Home Care
Programs

JHS with
Special Programs
Science
High Schools

Multigrade
Elementary
Program

Basic Literacy
Programs

Grades 7 to 10
Regular JHS

Assessment
and
Intervention
Programs

Hospital/
Institutional Care/
Home Care
Programs

System Evaluation

Tech-Voc JHS
Integrated Programs
Basic Literacy
Programs
Informal Education
Programs
A & E JHS

Assessment
and
Intervention
Programs

Hospital/
Institutional Care/
Home Care
Programs

System
Evaluation

Grades 11 and 12

Beyond DepEd

GAS SHS

Higher
Education

HUMSS SHS

Admissions to
Higher Education

ABM SHS
STEM SHS
Sports SHS
Arts and Design
SHS
TVL SHS

Assessment
and
Intervention
Programs

Exit Assessment from Basic Education

ECCD
Programs

School Entry
Assessments

Kinder to Grade 6

Elementary Exit Assessment

SPED

NON-FORMAL

FORMAL

ECCD

Finalized the assessment framework

a. Curriculum exits have corresponding assessments
b. Identified possible pathways and corresponding assessments

Interest Assessment
National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE)

Assessment

1.

Middle Skills
Development

Entry Assessment
for Work Skills
Work
Hiring processes
for work readiness

Continuing
Education
Program Specific
Assessments

Hospital/
Institutional Care/
Home Care
Programs

System
Evaluation

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Assessment

1.

2.

Exit
Assessment
from Basic
Education
Program
Specific
Assessments

1.
2.

National
Certificate
Entry
Assessment for
Work Skills

Entry Assessment
for Work Skills

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Certificate

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Assessment
2. Identified essential skills and content per subject per key stage

CURRICULUM

ASSESSMENT

(Formal and
Alternative Learning System)

(Formal and
Alternative Learning System)

Essential Skills connect curriculum and assessment in both Formal and

Alternative Learning Systems.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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Assessment

3. Constructed the assessment cube based on the collated essential

skills

Information, Media and Technology Skills

Learning and Innovation Skills
Communication Skills
Life and Career Skills
Information, Media and Technology Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
Communication Skills
Life and Career Skills
Math Communication
K to
Information,Skills
Media
and6 Technology Skills
1. RepresentingLearning
numbersand
using
models, Skills
diagrams and symbols
Innovation
2. Representing operations
using models,
Communication
Skills diagrams and symbols
3. Displaying data Life and Career Skills
4. Interpreting
Information, Media and Technology Skills
5. Giving descriptive
information
Learning
and Innovation Skills
6. Making connections
Communication Skills
7. Communicating results
Life and Career Skills

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Assessment
4. Created the National Assesment Technical Working Group for
the Assessment of the K to 12 Program (January 13, 2015)
Sub-TWGs:
a. System Assessment
b. National Assessment of Student Learning
c. Teachers and Supervisors Assessment
d. Classroom Assessment
5. Gathered the National TWG and Sub-TWG members (February
16-17, 2015)
a. Discussed responsibilities, activities and tasks
b. Set timelines
6. Convened the National TWG (March 3, 2015)
a. Shared highlights of the Sub-TWG meetings
b. Resolved issues raised
c. Presented and revised timelines as needed

Assessment

7. Classroom Assessment Sub-TWG had a workshop last February 25-27 to

review DepEd Order 73 s. 2012 (Guidelines on Assessment and Rating
of Learning Outcomes under the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum)
a. Identified issues of DepEd Order 73 s. 2012
b. Proposed revisions and provided justification/s for each suggested
modification
c. Redefined formative and summative assessment at the school level
d. Identified models on rating system taking into consideration the
applicability in the local setting
e. Presented the proposed rating system to the National TWG for
Assessment of the K to 12 Program and the Programs Committee (March
3, 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

The K to 12 Philippine Basic Education

Curriculum Framework
Holistically Developed Filipino with 21st Century Skills
Being and Becoming a Whole Person
SKILLS
Information, Media, and Technology Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
Communication Skills
Life and Career Skills

LEARNING AREAS
Language
Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE)
Mathematics and Science
Arts and Humanities

Curriculum Support System

Teachers

Materials,
Facilities,
and
Equipment

ICT
Environment

Assessment

School
Leadership
and
Management

Schools
Divisions
Technical
Assistance

Monitoring and Evaluation System

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

CommunityIndustry
Relevance
and
Partnerships