The K-12 Curriculum

The K+12 curiculum and its implementation is of great necessity in the country. It is a fact that education plays an important role not just for every individual but also for the society. Its importance is undeniably integral and comprehensible making society and knowledge two inseparable entities. Particularly, science education is not to be taken lightly by all learning institutions. Science and technology’s improvement and advancements could not have been made possible without science education itself. Science and its association with technology and industry aid in the development and progression as viewed from the national basis. Their people’s quality of life and the want to enhance it must thereupon take into consideration science and

One of the evaluation reports of the Department of Education entitled “The K to 12 Basic Education Program” enumerates the improved features in the K+12 curriculum prospecting to positive impacts and advantages. Considering early childhood education as an integral part of student’s development is one. Students can go to school for as early as 5 years old (University Kindergarten) preparing them for formal education by all means. Human brains grow 60-70 percent of adult size at early childhood, ages 0-6, making it the most effective stage to develop students holistically. It is where the basis or foundation of the students’ life-long learnings and understandings are laid. As reported by Konnikova (2013), Hilary Levey Friedman had said, “Early investment of time and skill development(Underscoring added) appears to have a more lasting impact.” K+12 thus makes a robust early childhood education developing and preparing students. Second is the introduction of concepts and ideas and application to common and day-to-day to lives in order for students to have a more understandable and relatable perception. Students are also provided with discussions on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) thus making them relevant learners themselves. The use of the mother tongue is also a feature of K+12 introducing twelve of the local languages. According

The implementation of this curriculum is anticipated by the government to bring about improvement in the educational and national issues in relation to the quality of education. The K to 12 curriculum settles the congested approach of the ten year program. This 12-year curriculum is presented with an equalized appeal as compared to the previous one making students obtain and master knowledge and skills more efficiently. It offers more time for students for acquiring better competency and ascertains close monitoring of teachers in the development of each student. In the previous ten-year program, time constraint is considered a struggle for teachers with the pressure of taking up all the necessary tasks and lectures mandatory for the next level. Unpredicted instances such as natural calamities by which together with holidays or non-school days, further shorten the amount of time supposedly designated for schools. With only ten-years of education, students are noted with insufficient skills and competencies making them inefficient workers for company requirements. Being a college graduate is sought to be the answer to gain better job opportunities however, nowadays, it is already considered inadequate. With the aid of K+12, students are already employable by the time they have finished Senior High School and would remove the common distortion of college as the only way for employment thus, sparing parents from having to spend much