Before the phased implementation next year, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, Aug. 10, announced that it will start pilot implementation of the revised K to 10 curriculum this school year.
“Any product, no matter how good it is, will remain a piece of paper if you’re not going to implement it so we’re doing pilot implementation so we are more ready in the implementation next school year,” DepEd Undersecretary for Curriculum and Teaching Gina Gonong explained in a press conference of the MATATAG K to 10 Curriculum.
DepEd formally launched the new K to 10 curriculum weeks before classes in public schools start on Aug. 29.
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Gonong explained that the pilot implementation of the MATATAG K to 10 Curriculum will be conducted in select schools nationwide.
“We will study the challenges that we will be facing so we can address the gaps and so we as well as the the teachers will be more ready to teach [new curriculum] when we finally roll it out in School Year 2024-2025,” Gonong said in a mix of English and Filipino.
The pilot implementation, Gonong explained, will be participated in by select schools from Metro Manila and various regions.
“We’re just selecting schools from NCR [National Capital Region] and then from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao,” Gonong said. The schools that will be chosen for the pilot implementation, she said, “would represent schools across the country.”
For the pilot implementation of the MATATAG K TO 10 curriculum this year, Gonong said that in-house learning materials are being prepared with the assistance of DepEd’s partners.
Teachers in the selected schools for the pilot implementation, she added, will be given special training too. “It will not be mass training, we will go to them and we will provide technical assistance all throughout the pilot implementation,” she added.
During her presentation of the MATATAG K to 10 Curriculum, Bureau of Curriculum Development Director Joyce Andaya explained that the new curriculum will be done in phases until 2028.
For SY 2024-2025, the phased implementation will cover Kinder, Grades 1, 4, and 7; Grades 2, 5, and 8 in SY 2025-2026; Grades 3, 6, and 9 in SY 2026-2027 and Grade 10 in SY 2027-2028.
Since the new K to 10 curriculum will be rolled out next SY, Gonong said that the current curriculum will still be used for the incoming SY 20230-2024.
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, DepEd implemented the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) in SY 2020-2021.
The MECLs served as an “annex” or part of the emergency response amid the Covid-19 crisis through the implementation of DepEd’s Basic Education - Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP).
The K to 12 curriculum was streamlined to 5,689 MECLs from the original 14,171, or a reduction of 60 percent to “address curriculum review finding of congestion and overlaps.”
Learning competencies, according to DepEd, refer to the “knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes that students need to demonstrate in every lesson and/or learning activity.”
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The adjusted K to 10 curriculum will be piloted this upcoming school year 2023-2024 and DepEd is still in the process of identifying the particular grade levels and schools that will use it.