PACKAGE FOR YOU

ERNESTO I. QUINLOG JR.

Creating a volume of syllabus devoted to boosting children’s educational intelligence has proven its essential role for bridging young learners toward their ambitions. However, this raises the question of whether children’s overall life skills are guaranteed to develop in a traditional classroom setting. Life skills, in essence, describe the core skills that help us develop the talents and aptitudes needed to deal with the realities of life. In hindsight, this can be easily achieved through absorbing technical proficiencies that are taught in long-established courses such as Math, Science, Language, and Arts. Still, the call for an amplified need to extend conventional teaching methods and programs will never be irrelevant. Seeing that children spend an average of 10 hours a day in school, barring parents, teachers stand in second amongst the most influential figures in a child’s life. This carries forth significant bearings of what a child takes in after being in the presence of their teachers. The K-12 Transition Curriculum for Learners with Disabilities offers an evenhanded basis for shaping all-around students. This encompasses developing the aptitude and efficiency of their Care, Life, Functional Academics, Pre-Vocational, Livelihood, Career, and Enrichment Skills, otherwise labeled as the 7 Packages, enkindled by the Special Education (SpEd). This is the Department of Education’s (DepEd) system of heeding to our 1987 Constitution’s plea that the nation shall protect and promote the rights of citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education available to all. Truth of the matter is that life skills hold the collection of fundamental abilities gained through the interplay of education and practical experiences that help people successfully address challenges and problems that arise in daily life. To view this in a different light, this is a lesson that will never amount to academic merits, but a lesson that will give bearings to how our characters will live in compassion. With this, it is within the list of our duties to assure our students the ability to cultivate their skills and knowledge to their fullest potential – utilizing them to create greater means of goodness amongst their peers, family, community, and above all, themselves.

-oOoThe author is SPED Teacher I at Angeles Elementary School