All about K-12 Curriculum Salient Points Assessment and Grading System Subjects and New Features of K-12 Program/Curriculum

1. K-12 Program
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 [SHS])
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.
After considering various proposals and studies, the model that is currently being
proposed by DepEd is the K-6-4-2 Model. This model involves Kindergarten, six years of
elementary education, four years of junior high school (Grades 7 to 10) and two years of senior
high school (Grades 11 to 12). The two years of senior high school intend to provide time for
students to consolidate acquired academic skills and competencies.
Features of K 6-4-2
(1) Kindergarten and 12 years of quality basic education is a right of every Filipino, therefore
they must be and will be provided by government and will be free.
(2) Those that go through the 12 years cycle will get an elementary diploma (6 years), a junior
high school diploma (4 years), and a senior high school diploma (2 years).
(3) A full 12 years of basic education will eventually be required for entry into tertiary level
education (entering freshmen by SY 2018-2019 or seven years from now).

2. Salient Points of this Program
1. Strengthening Early Childhood Education
(Universal Kindergarten)
Every Filipino child now has access to early childhood education
through Universal Kindergarten. At 5 years old, children start schooling and are
given the means to slowly adjust to formal education.
2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners
Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations are based
on local culture, history, and reality. This makes the lessons relevant to the
learners and easy to understand.
3. Building Proficiency through Language
(Mother Tongued-Based Multilingual Education)
Students are able to learn best through their first language, their
Mother Tongue (MT). Twelve (12) MT languages have been introduced for SY
2012-2013: Bahasa Sug, Bikol, Cebuano, Chabacano, Hiligaynon, Iloko,
Kapampangan, Maguindanaoan, Meranao, Pangasinense, Tagalog, and Waray.
Other local languages will be added in succeeding school years.
Aside from the 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. Both will become
primary languages of instruction in Junior High School (JHS) and Senior High School
(SHS).

3. 4. Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning
(Spiral Progression)
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.
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. The choice of career track will define
the content of the subjects a student will take in Grades 11 and 12. SHS subjects fall
under either the Core Curriculum or specific Tracks.
6. Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino
(College and Livelihood Readiness, 21st
Century Skills)
After going through Kindergarten, the enhanced Elementary and Junior
High curriculum, and a specialized Senior High program, every K to 12
graduates will be ready to go into different paths – may it be further
education, employment, or entrepreneurship.
Every graduate will be equipped with:
a. Information, media and technology skills,
b. Learning and innovation skills,
c. Effective communication skills, and
d. Life and career skills.

4. Subjects and New Features in the K to 12 Curriculum
Training Regulations- based TLE
Grade 10 – NC I is obtained
Grades 7-8 TLE – Certificate of Competency
• The 26 TLE specializations are EXPLORATORY.
• Teaching of these TLE specializations is focused on 5 common competencies:
1. Use of tools
2. Maintenance of Tools
3. Measurement and Computation
4. Interpreting Drawing
5. Occupational Safety and Health
Grade 9 - Specialization-TechVoc Industrial Arts
1. Automotive Servicing
2. Carpentry
3. Drafting
4. Electrical Installation and Maintenance
5. Electrical Servicing
6. Handicraft

5. 7. Masonry
8. Plumbing
9. Refrigeration and air conditioning
10. Shielded Metal and Welding
11. Tile Setting
Home Economics
12. Care giving
13. Dressmaking/Tailoring
14. Household Services
15. Bread and Pastry Production
16. Beauty Care
17. Commercial Cooking
18. Animal Production
19. Crop Production
20. Food Processing
21. Horticulture
22. Fish Capture
23. Fish Culture
24. Fish Processing
25. PC Hardware Servicing
26. Technical Drafting
27. Medical Transcription

6. Senior High School Core Curriculum Subjects
1. Oral Communication
2. Reading and Writing
3. Komunikasyon at Pananaliksik sa Wika at Kulturang Filipino
4. Pagbasa at Pagsusuri ng Iba’t-Ibang Teksto Tungo sa Pananaliksik
5. 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
6. Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
7. Media and Information Literacy
8. General Mathematics
9. Statistics and Probability
10. Earth and Life Science
11. Physical Science
12. Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person / Pambungad sa Pilosopiya ng Tao
13. Physical Education and Health
14. Personal Development/ Pansariling Kaunlaran
15. Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
16. Earth Science (taken instead of Earth and Life Science for those in the STEM Strand)
17. Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (taken instead of Physical Science for those in the
STEM Strand).

7. Assessment or Grading System of K-12 Program
By 2015, school will be starting in August. Grades would be based on letters and not the
common A-F scale.
KPUP actually refers to the various levels of assessment. Unlike before when the
combination of quizzes, long tests, and periodic or end-of-term exams were used as the primary
component of grades, the framework now takes into account these various levels. Here’s an
attempt to a simple explanation but the details can be seen in the DepEd order 73 s. 2012.
Knowledge (K) – 15% – Checks factual information. Similar to the usual pen-and-paper
activities like objective-type quizzes and tests.
Process (P) – 25% – Checks skills and operations like outlining, expressing, and
converting information to other forms.
Understanding (U) – 30% – Checks big concepts, meanings, and principles through
explanations and interpretations.
Performance/Product (P) – 30% – Checks actual application of learning through projects.
Taking a look as the breakdown, one can see that what used to be the biggest chunk of
students’ grades accounts for just 15% and what used to be considered minor activities such as
projects now account for 30%. Theoretically, these are quite sound principles since
contemporary views on learning say that learning must be applied to what is relevant to the
learner’s life.
In addition, “grades” (now called “levels of proficiency”) will be as follows:
Beginning – 74% and below
Developing – 75 to 79%
Approaching Proficiency – 80 to 84%
Proficient – 85 to 89%
Advanced – 90% and above

8. Outcomes Based Education
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-
Confucius
After a teacher has decided what he or she will teach, there are four simple steps to
creating an OBE/CASS based lesson plan. The first three steps are guided by the principals of
OBE.
First, teaching and learning in OBE starts by setting the outcomes. This is easy enough:
textbooks’ teacher’s guide usually list what learning outcomes (LOs) and assessment standards
(ASs) a lesson is addressing. The LOs are general outcomes that do not change from year to
year; the ASs are more specific outcomes that do.
Second, teachers must present new information. Again, teacher’s guides usually give
suggestions on how to present information clearly and effectively using a variety of teaching
styles such as auditory, visual, tactile or kinetic.
Third, information must be applied in an activity; applying information in an activity
transforms it into knowledge. Because activities are so important in OBE, we say that OBE is
activities-based and learner-centered. Teacher’s guides also provide activities.

9. Lesson Plan Format
Teacher: Term:
Learning Area: Week:
Grade: Duration:
Context:
Content:
Link w/
Previous
Lesson:
Link w/ Next Lesson:
Outcomes - LOs & ASs:
Presentation / Activity / Assessment:
List the Forms of
Assessment:
Resources: Integration:
Teacher Reflection:

10. References:
http://philippinesgoforgold.blogspot.com/2012/10/deped-k12-program-and-its-salient-point.html
http://barrwilson.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/ncs-ii-lessonplans.doc
http://www.alexmaximo.com/deped-k-12-kpup-grading-assessment/
http://philbasiceducation.blogspot.com/2012/07/deped-releases-list-of-additional.html#ixzz359yvmzlg
Briefer on the Enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program Official Gazette of the Republic of the
Philippines.htm
http://philbasiceducation.blogspot.com/2012/07/deped-releases-list-of-additional.html#ixzz359yvmzlg
http://www.deped.gov.ph/index.php/resources/curriculum-guides/shs-core-subjects
By: Rachel S. Barol
Purpose: Educ115 Assignment 