Updates on DepEd’s MATATAG Curriculum

The Department of Education (DepEd) under the leadership of the Secretary, Vice President Sara Z. Duterte launched the MATATAG curriculum which stood for, “Make the curriculum relevant to produce job-ready, Active and responsible citizens; TAke steps to accelerate the delivery of basic education services and provision facilities; TAke good care of learners by promoting learner well-being, inclusiveness learning, and positive learning environment; and, Give support for teachers to teach better.”

This curriculum was a product out of the efforts made by the government to better the quality of basic education offered to school children from kinder to Senior High School in the country. The new curriculum was an evidencebased move coming from several researches conducted and based from the results of different assessment (international and national assessments to Filipino school children) where it revealed a poor performance in academics. The move to revise the Kto12 curriculum into MATATAG curriculum aims to address the challenges of the current K to 12 curriculum, such as the congested content, misplaced prerequisite learning competencies, and cognitive demand imbalance.

DepEd is now on its beginning phase of the preparation starting with the training of instructional leaders and teachers in primary and elementary grades (K-6) until JHS (Grade 7-10). The implementation of the new curriculum is set to commence this school year 2024-2025. The department is continuously looking for suggestions to better its implementation of the curriculum and with the high hopes that this would give better result in improving the quality of basic education particularly the performance of Filipino school children.(