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A. K to 12 concerns
9. How will the K to 12 program helps students intending to pursue higher education?
The K to 12 program will better prepare student for higher education. The enhanced curriculum will ensure mastery of concepts
and thus help increase chances of college completion and produce better professionals.
10. What will happen to the college and universities during the 2-year gap?
There are discussions on using college and private school facilities and teachers to teach senior high school students.
DepEd, CHED, and TESDA are aware of this concern and are discussing options to address transition management issues.
11. Will senior high schools be implemented in existing high schools or will new schools be built?
There is no need to build new high schools.
Existing schools will be used for the additional 2-year program as well as new classrooms that will be built.
We are also working with CHED and TESDA to see how we can respond to the additional space requirement. We are exploring
the possibility of using their existing resources to help us respond to the requirement of the additional 2 years.
12. Is K to 12 required for private schools as well? Will the same implementation timeline apply to private schools?
Since private schools follow the DepEd curriculum, they will also implementing the 12-year education program.
The timeline followed by DepEd was formulated by the Steering committee whose other members are private school
organizations. This timeline can therefore be adopted by private schools.
13. How will the college and tech-voc courses be adjusted due to K to 12 curriculum? Will adjustments be (made) on time for the first
graduates of K to 12?
TESDA and CHED are part of the committee that is working on the new program.
While there are tech-voc courses under TESDA, DepEd also offers tech-voc courses though its tech-voc high schools. These
schools implement TESDA-certified subjects and students take test administered by TESDA for their competency certification.
The curriculum for these courses will be considered in Levels 9 to 12.
14. What is the role of the (a) barangay and (b) NGOs in K to 12?
Help in the community information dissemination about the program
Take part in the K to 12 consultations to provided inputs of the curriculum and the implementation of the program.
Share lessons learned from other education projects.
C. Curriculum
15. What will happen to the curriculum? What subjects will be added and removed?
Decongest the current curriculum to allow for mastery of learning.
Offer basic education as a continuum from Kinder to Grade 12.
In Grades 11 and 12, it will strengthen core subjects like math, Science and English; It will also offer specialization in the
students areas of interest.
Right now, a technical working group has formulated the new curriculum framework and curriculum standards. They will now
proceed to develop the learning competencies and learning plans. Experts in CHED, TESDA and other stakeholders will then
validate all this. After this, the changes in terms of subjects added, removed and enhanced will be clearer.
18. For senior high school , what will happen if majority of our students want to specialize in agriculture and only one is interested to
take math or academics? How will this be accommodated?
This is an extreme situation.
The areas of specialization will be offered accordingly to the resources in the locality and needs of the students.
19. What will happen to special schools such as high school for the arts, trade schools, etc?
Based on the initial plan of the Steering Committee, these schools may be converted to centers for learning.
21. ALS age requirement is only 16 years old for the HS equivalency test. Will this change to 18? Students might want to turn ALS if
they can save 2 years of formal school education costs.
The ALS is based on the existing 10-year basic education curriculum. When we follow a new 12-year curriculum, ALS will likewise
be revised.
D. Kindergarten
24. Should schools now prepare permanent records for Kindergarten students?
Yes. While the rating of students in Kindergarten is not academically driven, a good measure of the childs ability is needed for
future learning interventions.
E. Teachers
27. Is there a salary increase for the teacher due to the K to 12 program?
There will be a teacher salary increase due to Salary Standardization Law.
There is no salary increase due to K to 12 program because there will be no additional teaching load or additional teaching
hours.
29. Who will be teachers for Grades 11-12? What will be their qualifications?
Training will be provided for teachers who will teach Grades 11 and 12.
We are currently assessing whether to hire new teacher or train current teachers to teach Grades 11 to 12.
We are also studying the possibility of CHED and TESDA teachers teaching Grades 11 and 12 during the transition period.
F. Budget
30. How close is DepEd in closing the resource gaps (i.e. classroom, teachers)?
We have about five years to close the resource gaps.
Aside from the increasing budget of DepEd , we are also enjoying the support from local governments, private partners, and
donor countries.
31. Currently, DepEd is lacking in resources to address its current problems. With K to 12 and its added resource needs, how will this
be addressed?
One scheme is to front load all needed capital investments, take a loan from government and private banks based on annual
budget and pay the amortization yearly.
We also have the support of the local government units and private partners in terms of infrastructure.
o Private partners can donate though our Adopt-a-School program that provides them 150% tax rebate for their
contribution.
o LGUs can follow the front-loading scheme using their Special Education Fund as collateral and the allocation as
amortization.
o For teacher items, LGUs also help by hiring qualified teachers for our public schools. LGUs pay to their salaries.
32. How will the shortage in classrooms, teachers and instructional material be addressed?
The shortages will be addressed before the additional year in basic education.
With the implementation of the new curriculum, the shortages in teachers, classrooms and instructional materials will be
addressed.
The additional classrooms, teachers and instructional materials due to K to 12 program will be needed in SY 2016-2017. There is
enough time to prepare for this.
The LGUs and the private sector are our partners in addressing these shortages.
35. Wont this be another avenue for corruption? How can you ensure that the funds will be released, used properly?
The Department fully supports the Aquino administrations drive against corruption.
We will regularly package and disseminate information on agency budgets, bidding and procurement documents and SALNs of
senior government officials, to ensure transparency and accountability.
It is also our best interest to ensure that funds and resources are not lost to corruption.
G. ARMM Concerns
38. What is the policy of DepEd to reduce the occurrence of the teacher kidnapping on ARMM?
We are gearing to organize an Education Summit for ARMM to discuss this concern.
Our initial discussions with ARMM explore assigning Muslim teachers to ARMM schools.
39. Given the situation in the conflict areas, is it possible to make the non-eligible natives (Muslim) to become full-pledged teachers?
This will have to be discussed during the ARMM Educational Summit along with the Civil Service and PRC representatives.