EGE 10 7

TEAC HING ENGLISH IN THE ELEM ENTARY GRADES

(LANGUAGE ARTS)

GENERAL
PRINCIPLES IN
LANGUAGE ARTS
LENIBABES S. ALCANTARA, MAEd
TEACHING Course Instructor
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CURRICULUM
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DYNAMIC
An Overview of the New K to 12 Curriculum in the
Philippines
What Is K to 12?
The K to 12 curriculum covers Kindergarten
and 12 years of basic education. The program
aims 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.
An Overview of the New K to 12 Curriculum in the
Philippines
 K to 12 Program Guide
Kindergarten
Students will learn numbers, alphabest,
colors, and shapes. Learning will take
place through dances, games, and songs
and the medium of instruction is in the
child’s mother tongue.
Grades 1 to 10
Students in Grades 1 to 10 will experience an enhanced, context-based, and
spiral progression-learning curriculum with the following subjects:

• Mother Tongue
• Filipino
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Araling Panlipunan
• Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (EsP)
• Music
• Arts
• Physical Education
• Health
• Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP)
• Technology and Livehood Education (TLE)
Grades 11-12 (Senior High)
Core curriculum will be taught, along with a Specific Track chosen by the
student.

A. Core Curriculum
• There are seven learning areas under the Core
Curriculum:
• Languages
• Communication
• Literature
• Math
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy
• Social
Subjects include:
• Oral communication
• Reading and writing
• Komunikasyon at Pananaliksik sa Wika at Kulturang Filipino
• 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
• Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
• Media and Information Literacy
• General Mathematics
• Statistics and Probability
• Earth and Life Science
• Physical Science
• Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person/Pambungad sa Pilosopiya
ng Tao
• Physical Education and Health
• Personal Development/Pansariling Kaunlaran
• Earth Science (instead of Earth and life science for those in the STEM
strand)
• Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (taken instead of Physical science
for those in the STEM strand)
B. Specific Tracks

• Academic Track
• Business, Accountancy, Management (BAM)
• Humanities, Education, Social Sciences (HESS)
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
(STEM
• Technical- Vocational- Livelihood
• Sports and Arts
Salient Features
• Strengthening Early Childhood Education (Universal
Kindergarten)
• Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners
(Contextualization and Enhancement)
• Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning (Spiral
Progression)
• Building Proficiency through Language (Mother Tongue-
Based Multilingual Education)
• Gearing Up for the Future (Senior High School)
• Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino (College
and Livelihood Readiness, let Century Skills)
 the k to 12 english curriculum
• Republic Act 10533 "Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013"

• Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum views language as the

"primary instrument of thought"

• Rules of a language refers to the principles that govern word formation,

syntax, pronunciation, and several other features of the language.

• Guessabi (2017) points out that culture is a language itself. Learning a

language therefore is not only to read, speak or write in another
language but to learn of another culture.
 Principles that guide the k to 12 curriculum
• All languages are interrelated and independent.
• Language acquisition and learning is an active process that begins at
birth and continuous throughout life.
• Learning requires meaning.
• Learners learn about language and how to use it effectively through
their engagement with and study of texts.
• Successful language learning involves viewing, listening, reading, and
writing activities.
• Language learning involves recognizing, accepting, valuing, and
building on learners' existing language competence
 the LEARNERS IN THE EYES OF
THE k to 12 curriculum
• Generation Z was popularized by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their
book Generations (September,1992) which they described it as a cohort
of people born after the year 1997.

• Mark Wensky (2001) calls them "digital natives" who have been exposed
to technologies at a very young age. Digital immigrants are those who
were born before the digital technologies have become mainstream to the
public.
 the LEARNERS IN THE EYES OF
THE k to 12 curriculum
• A classroom can also have a multitude of learners. Bernice McCarthy
proposes a model that describes four types of learners that teachers may
encounter in the classroom.

• Type 1 Learner - imaginative learner

• Type 2 Learner - analytical learner
• Type 3 Learner - common-sense learner
• Type 4 Learner - dynamic learner
GOALS OF THE K TO 12
CURRICULUM
Components of the k to 12 language curriculum