Historical Timeline of Education in the Philippines

Group 1
Members:
Arbuis, Angel mae
Abines, Rosebert
Abano, Rosalia
Bennett, Jezel
Dumugho, Nancy
Ege, Frenz
Tranilla, Marian

January 1, 1554 Aim: for survival and conformity; for

( Pre- Spanish Period ) 0-1555 enculturation
Methods: demonstration method;
observation/imitation
Content: broad, indefinite and unwritten;
unstructured; research later shows Filipinos
already have their own "baybayin" alphabet
January 2, 1555 Royal decree of 1555 mandated the ff.
Spanish Period education goals:
- indoctrination of Christianity
- promotion of Spanish language
- imposition of Spanish culture
Methods: dictation; memorization; moro-
moro, cenaculo
*Primary instruction was free but usually for
the elite. Education during that period was
inadequate, suppressed, and controlled.
Content: Christian doctrine; intro of parochial
schools; severe discipline imposed;
authoritarianism type; teacher dominated
January 1, 1565 The Augustinians opened a parochial school
Parochial School in Cebu in 1565.
1577 The Franciscans, took to the task of
improving literacy in 1577, aside from the
teaching of new industrial and agricultural
techniques.
1587 The Jesuits followed in 1581, as well as the
Dominicans in 1587, setting up a school in
 Bataan.
1589 The Universidad de San Ignacio, founded in
Manila by the Jesuits in 1589 was the first
colegio.
The Spanish also introduced printing presses
to produce books in Spanish and Tagalog,
sometimes using baybayin.
1590 The first book printed in the Philippines dates
back to 1590. It was a Chinese language
version of Doctrina Christiana.
1593 Spanish and Tagalog versions, in both Latin
script and the locally used baybayin script,
were later printed in 1593
1610 In 1610, Tomas Pinpin, a Filipino printer,
writer and publisher, who is sometimes
referred to as the "Patriarch of Filipino
Printing", wrote his famous "Librong
Pagaaralan nang manga Tagalog nang
Uicang Castilla", which was meant to help
Filipinos learn the Spanish language

American Period

1899 1899, more schools were opened, this

time, with 24 English-language teachers
and 4500 students.
1901 A highly centralized, experimental public
school system was installed in 1901 by
the Philippine Commission and legislated
by Act No. 74. The law exposed a severe
shortage of qualified teachers, brought
about by large enrollment numbers in
schools
As a result, the Philippine Commission
authorized the Secretary of Public
Instruction to bring more than 1,000
teachers from the United States, who
were called the Thomasites, to the
Philippines between 1901 and 1902.
1902 In 1902, Act No. 372 authorized the
opening of provincial high schools.
1908 1908 marked the year when Act No.
1870 initiated the opening of the
University of the Philippines, now the
country's national university.
1910 The emergence of high school education
in the Philippines, however, did not
occur until 1910.
1907 Act No. 1381, also known as Gabaldon

1916
1924
JAPANESE ERA
Period: Jan 1, 1942 to Dec 31, 1945
JAPANESE ERA
Feb 17, 1942
Legal Mandate for Education during
Japanese occupation
Period: Jul 4, 1946 to Aug 15, 2015
INDEPENDENCE OF PHILS(1946) TO
Present
Law, was passed in 1907, which
provided a fund of a million pesos for
construction of concrete school buildings
and is one of many attempts by the
government to meet this demand.
In line as well with the Filipinozation
policy of the government, the
Reorganization Act of 1916 provided that
all department secretaries except the
Secretary of Public Instruction must be a
natural-born Filipino.
A series of revisions (in terms of content,
length, and focus) to the curriculum
began in 1924, the year the Monroe
Survey Commission released its findings.
After having convened in the period from
1906 to 1918, what was simply an
advisory committee on textbooks was
officiated in 1921 as the Board on
Textbooks through Act No. 2957. The
Board was faced with difficulties,
however, even up to
Order No. 2 of the Japanese Imperial
Forces set up the war time educational
aims in Phils: fostering a new culture
based on consciousness of the people as
Orientals; elevating the morals of the
people over materialism; diffusion of
elem. educ. and promotion of vocational
educ.; diffusion of Japanese’s language
and termination of use of English in
schools
*establishment of vocational, agricultural
and technical schools; teaching P.E. and
Japanese songs
Order No. 2 of the Japanese Imperial
Forces was established to set up war
time educational objectives
Starting with the 1935 Constitution up
to present, various reforms were made
on the educational system. EOs and RAs
establishing various agencies started to
proliferate, living and working conditions
of teachers were addressed and their civil
 service eligibility, barrio and provincial
schools were created, educational
programs to enhance studies and
assessments were initiated (NCEE,
NSAT, etc.) aim is still to promote natal
debt and values educ., and
implementation of K-12
Jun 14, 1947 its function was to screen and approve
textbooks for use in all public schools.
Board of Textbooks (RA 139) Private schools can use textbooks of
their choice provided the Board has no
objections.
Jun 15, 1954 Pursuant to RA 1079, teachers are
required to take civil service exam to be
Civil Service Eligibility eligible to teach in public schools.
Jun 18, 1966 *recruitment qualification of teachers

Magna Carta for Teachers *Code of Professional Conduct

*teaching load and overtime

*GSIS benefits

*leaves, salary increases