Before the term of Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones ends next year, the Curriculum and Instruction strand of the Department of Education (DepEd), has committed to unveil the updated version of the K to 12 curriculum for basic education.
Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio, during the 2021 DepEd General Assembly last week, said that the CI strand has been working to incorporate improvements in the K to 12 curriculum.
“We have to admit that there is much room for improvement but I feel somehow that the bureau and the offices working with us at the curriculum and instruction strand were able to deliver what has been committed,” San Antonio said.
“We commit to unveiling the 2022 version of the K to 12 curriculum before our term ends,” he added.
Meanwhile, San Antonio also said that the DepEd is “now finalizing various researches.”
These, he added, will be presented to the management and executive committee early next year to “serve as a benchmark in policy recommendation and revision of the curriculum.”
DepEd said that the curriculum review was one of the priorities of the agency under the “Sulong Edukalidad” program.
Launched in 2019, “Sulong EduKalidad '' has become the battle cry of the DepEd to achieve quality in basic education.
“Sulong EduKalidad” has K-I-T-E as its four key reform areas: (1) K to 12 Curriculum review and update; (2) Improvement of learning environment (3) Teachers’ upskilling and reskilling; and (4) Engagement of stakeholders for support and collaboration.
The reform initiative was launched in “response to the rapidly changing learning environment of present and future learners and will introduce aggressive reforms to globalize the quality of basic education in the Philippines.”
Given this, the Office of the Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction was mandated to conduct research in coordination with external partners and field offices to examine and update the curriculum as necessary.
In August, DepEd together with Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Center (ACTRC) unveiled the results of the K to 12 curriculum review in Educ Forum wherein San Antonio noted that these revisions in the curriculum will be implemented gradually to help the teachers and the learners in the transition.
DepEd said that the results of these studies will be integrated into the 2022 version of the K-to-12 curriculum that will be revealed before the end of the current term of the DepEd executive committee to streamline the transition to the new administration next year.