UNIVERSITY OF NORTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES

IRIGA CITY
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES

MASTERS OF ARTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

MAJOR IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Foundations of
Early Childhood Education

KRIS JOY M. DR. DANTEECER10.0 -SPA NTELICES

ROFESSOR

VILLALUZ
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RECAP
Mandate
1863-The Department of Education is established as the superior Commission
of Primary Institution under a Chairman.

Republic Act 9155-The DepEd was eventually mandated, otherwise known as

the Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001.
Mission
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino
to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic
education where:
Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment.
Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner.
Administrators and Staff, as stewards of the institutions, ensure
an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to
happen.
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged
and share responsibility for developing life-long learners.
Vision

We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose values and competencies
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.

As a learner-centered public institution,

the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better stakeholders.
Core Values

Maka-Diyos Makabansa
Maka-tao Makakalikasan
 The Rationalized DepEd
Organizational Structures
1. DepEd Central Office Functions:
❖ Set overall education agenda, directions and policies
❖ Formulates systems and standards for national adoption
❖ Perform investment programming
❖ Articulate national frameworks to guide the organization in the performance of its core
functions and the provision of support
❖ Oversee quality assurance and performance accountability
❖ Build partnerships with GOs and NGOs
 The Rationalized DepEd
Organizational Structures
2. DepEd Regional Office Functions:
❖ Set Regional agenda, directions and policies
❖ Localized curriculum
❖ Adopt to or adopt standards
❖ Manage Quality Assurance
❖ Provide technical assistance to Divisions
❖ Manage program investment and equitable allocation of resources
❖ Establish and manage partnership
 The Rationalized DepEd
Organizational Structures
3. DepEd Division/District Office Functions:
❖ Implement education agenda and policies
❖ Managed curriculum implementation
❖ Provide Instructional Supervision
❖ Build communities of schools and LCs
❖ Give technical assistance to schools/LCs
❖ Execute equitable distribution of resources
❖ Establish and manage partnership
 The Rationalized DepEd
Organizational Structures
4. DepEd School/LC Functions:
❖ Take accountability for learner outcomes
❖ implementation curriculum
❖ Provide equitable opportunities for all learners in the community
❖ Create an environment conducive to teaching and learning
❖ Lead and manage school and its resources
❖ Establish and manage linkages with stakeholders
 What is ECCD?

Refers to full range of Involves multifaceted Outcome: a child who is

health, nutrition, early process of development: “physically healthy,
education and social physical, cognitive, emotionally sound, and
services development emotional, social and socially competent and
programs that provide for spiritual covering period ready to learn
basic holistic needs of from pregnancy through
young children 0 to age 4, the transition from home
and promote optimum or ECCD programs into
growth and development primary school
 The Early Years Act of 2013
(RA 10410)
“An act recognizing the age from zero to eight (0-8)
years as the first crucial stage of educational
development & strengthening the early childhood care
and development system, appropriating funds therefor
and for other purposes”
Approved by the President last March 26, 2013
 Salient Features of Early Years Act 2013
⮚ Recognition of age 0-8 as the first crucial stage of
educational development
⮚ Strengthening of ECCD Council to ensure the State’s
focus on building a strong foundation for the development
and learning of 0-4 year old children while the DepEd
takes charge of the 5 to 8 years old
⮚ Ensuring sustained inter-agency and multi-sectoral
collaboration for the full range of health, nutrition, early
education and social development programs for holistic
development of children
 Roles & Responsibilities of ECCD Council
Section 7a: In consultation with coordinating committees at the provincial, city, municipal and barangay levels, the ECCD
Council shall be responsible for:

❖ Establishing national standards

❖ Developing policies and programs
❖ Ensuring compliance thereof,
❖ Providing technical assistance and support to ECCD service providers
 Roles & Responsibilities of ECCD Council
Section 7a (2):

❖The Council (DepEd, DOH, NNC) shall provide

continuing professional development program support,
supplementary learning materials, reference materials,
supplemental nutrition and health care services.
The Five Cycles of Educational Development
(UNESCO 2000)
No. Age Range Cycle Descreiption* Responsible Agency

1 Age 0 to 4 Foundation Cycle ECCD Council

Age 5 to 6 Foundation Cycle DepEd
2 Age 6 to 12 Elementary Education Cycle DepEd
3 Age 12 to 18 Secondary Education Cycle DepEd
4 Age 18 to 24 Tertiary Education Cycle CHED & TESDA
5 Age 24 & above Continuing Education Cycle CHED & TESDA
 What is K-12 Education?

The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of

basic education (six years of primary education, four years of
Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School to
provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills,
develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary
education, middle-level skills development, employment, and
entrepreneurship.
 Salient Features
1. Strengthening Early Childhood Education
⮚ Every Filipino child now has access to early childhood education.
⮚ Research shows that children who underwent to Kindergarten
have better completion rates than those who did not.
⮚ Education for children in the early years lays the foundation for
lifelong learning and for the total development of a child.
⮚ In Kindergarten, students learn the alphabets, numbers, shapes,
and colors through games, songs, and dances, in their Mother
Tongue.
 Salient Features
2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners

⮚ Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations are

based on local culture, history, and reality.
⮚ Students acquire in depth knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes
through continuity and consistency across all levels and subjects.
⮚ Discussions on issues such as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR),
Climate Change Adaptation, and Information & Communication
Technology (ICT) are included in the enhanced curriculum.
 Salient Features
3. Building Proficiency through Language
⮚ Students are able to learn best through their first language, their
Mother Tongue.
⮚ Aside from Mother Tongue, English and Filipino are taught as
subjects starting Grade 1, with a focus on oral fluency. From
Grades 4 to 6, English and Filipino are gradually introduced as
languages of instruction.
⮚ After Grade 1, every student can read in his or her Mother
Tongue. Learning in Mother Tongue also serves as the foundation
for students to learn Filipino and English easily.
 Salient Features
4. Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning
⮚ Subjects are taught from the simplest concepts to more
complicated concepts through grade levels in spiral progression.
As early as elementary, students gain knowledge in areas such
as Biology, Geometry, Earth Science, Chemistry, and Algebra.
This ensures a mastery of knowledge and skills after each level.
 Salient Features
5. Gearing Up for the Future (Senior High School)
⮚ Senior High School is two years of specialized upper secondary
education; students may choose a specialization based on
aptitude, interests, and school capacity.
 Core Curriculum
There are seven Learning Areas under the Core Curriculum.
⮚ Languages
⮚ Literature
⮚ Communication
⮚ Mathematics
⮚ Philosophy
⮚ Natural Sciences &
⮚ Social Sciences
Tracks
⮚ Each student in SHS can choose among three tracks : Academic;
Technical-Vocational-Livelihood and Sports and Arts.
⮚ The Academic track includes three strands: Business,
Accountancy, Management (BAM); Humanities, Education,
Social Sciences (HESS); and Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics (STEM).
⮚ Students undergo immersion, which may include earn-while-you-
learn opportunities, to provide them relevant exposure and actual
experiences in their chosen track.
 TVET (Technical Vocational Education &
Training) National Certificate

⮚ After finishing Grade 10, a student can obtain Certificates of Competency

(COC) or a National Certificate Level (NC I). After finishing a Technical-
Vocational-Livelihood track in Grade 12, a student may obtain a National
Certificate Level (NC II), provided that he/she passes the competency-
based assessment of the Technical Education and Skills Development
authority (TESDA).
⮚ NC I and NC II improves employability of graduates in fields like
Agriculture, Electronics and Trade
 Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino
(College and Livelihood Readiness, 21 st Century Skills)

⮚ After going through Kindergarten, the enhanced Elementary and Junior

High curriculum, and a specialized Senior High program, every K to 12
graduate will be ready to go into different paths – may it be further
education, employment; or entrepreneurship.
⮚ Every graduate will be equipped with:
✔ Information, media and technology skills,
✔ Learning and innovation skills,
✔ Effective communication skills, and
✔ Life and career skills.
 Conclusion
The DepEd supervises all elementary and
secondary education institutions, including
alternative learning systems, both public and
private; and provides for the establishment
and maintenance of a complete, adequate,
and integrated system of basic education
relevant to the goals of national
development.
References:
⮚ https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/k-12/
⮚ https://k12philippines.com
⮚ https://eccdcouncil.gov.ph/
⮚ https://en.m.wikipedia.org>wiki
⮚ https://www.slideshare.net/MelonaBarriento
s3/1-quality-eccd-programs-the-way-forward
pdf
►https://www.deped.gov.ph
►https://www.teacherph.com/deped-
vision-mission
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