ANNOTATION FOR FILIPINO LEARNER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
ADELYN C. LISING
The Deped articulated a set of 21st century skills that should be embedded in the SHS curriculum across various subjects and tracks. These skills are desired outcomes that K to 12 graduates should possess in order to proceed to either higher education, employment, entrepreneurship, or middle-level skills development.
What are the DepEd functional Skills?
Visual and information literacies, media literacy, critical thinking and problem solving skills, creativity, initiative and self-direction
Global awareness, scientific and economic literacy, curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving skills, risk taking, flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self direction
Global awareness, media literacy, technological literacy, creativity, flexibility and adaptability, productivity and accountability
Global awareness, multicultural literacy, collaboration and interpersonal skills, social and cross-cultural skills, leadership and responsibility.
Media literacy, multicultural literacy, global awareness, collaboration and interpersonal skills and cross-cultural skills, leadership and responsibility, ethical, moral, and spiritual values
We have a legal basis on the restructured curriculum based on RA 9155 on which schools were given this much freedom to design their own curriculum? Because that is the spirit of the new law that gave birth to the Department of Education(DepEd). The old Department of Education, Culture and Sports(DECS) is dead; the days of strict and stifling curricular regulation from above are over. Today, schools-which are closet to the students that they have to mold into full human beings who love their country-are given the authority to decide for themselves,what they want to teach and how they want to teach it. Public schools have been empowered pedagogical matters are now school-based. In a sense, academic freedom , which is guaranteed by the Constitution only for the university level, has been brought down to the level of basic education. But that is no ther story, or maybe, that is the real story of the newly structured Curriculum.(Isagani R. Cruz,2002)
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Teacher III at San Vicente Pilot School for Philippine Craftsmen, Bulaon, City of San Fernando, Pampanga