THE SCHOOL year 2012-2013 marks the beginning of the implementation of the K-12 curriculum in public schools. That means, Kindergarten is now mandatory. The current first year to fourth year high school shall now be called grades 7-10. After four more years, there shall be grades 11 and 12. The question that is in everyone’s …

I WAS awakened by the sound of a siren around six o’clock in the morning. I thought it was a wake-up call from my fellow mountaineers. Still tired from yesterday’s trekking, I shuffled out of the tent only to realize that my comrades were still sleeping. I rubbed my eyes and saw several kids entering …

THE WORLD needs heroes. It calls and waits for your response. One young man has already responded and he needs your support. My friend, Mark Aethen Agana, has dedicated his youth to serving the less fortunate. Come August 8, he will celebrate his 24th birthday and he has committed to give happiness to kids in Lake …

THE DEPED Division of Sarangani gathered its stakeholders for a consultation on the Enhanced K+12 Curriculum at the Sarangani Provincial Gymnasium today.   The goal of the said consultation was to present the salient features of the Department of Education’s Enhanced K+12 Curriculum to principals, teachers, parents, community leaders, and student representatives and to elicit opinions from …

IN ORDER to shine the light on DepEd’s Enhanced K+12 Curriculum, a team of communication officers of the Division of Sarangani will conduct a series of information dissemination and discussion forums on January 2011.

Addressing the manifestations does not completely solve the problems. Unless we scratch beneath the surface, the problems would keep coming back. Even an anti-fungal cream advertisement knows that.

A neighbor who now works as a laborer in a nearby lumberyard told me once that he did not pursue basic education because he could not take being in school for six years. He said he preferred to start working early.

This is the first part of the series of articles I will write about this significant education issue. In this post, I introduced the Enhanced K+12 Basic Education Program based on the Discussion Paper published by the DepEd during the celebration of the World Teachers’ Day,October 5. In my next posts, I will attempt to explore the necessary preparations that the whole education must do before this reform pushes through. I will also try to look into the public perception with regards this developments in the education sector.

WELL, I should not panic. The memo (Memorandum No. 392) issued by the Department of Education applies only to elementary schools. Okay, I could still give assignments to my students on weekends.

No, don’t get me wrong. I don’t give assignments to my students to simply make their lives miserable. Come to think of it, the teacher needs to assess the students’ outputs afterward. In other words, giving assignments to students also means additional work for the teacher.