Policies and Guidelines

4. Republic Act No. 8990
AN ACT PROMULGATING A COMPREHENSIVE POLICY AND A NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT
(ECCD), PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

5. It recognizes ages 0-8 as crucial developmental stages. The 0-4 age group is
under the responsibility of the ECCD Council and the 5-8 age group is under
the purview of the Department of Education.

6. In 2009, through Executive Order 778, ECCD was officially established as a council which
focuses on establishing national ECCD standards, develop policies and programs, ensure
compliance thereof, and provide technical assistance as well as program support to ECCD
service providers.

7. The programs of ECCD Council includes:
a) Center-based Programs (RA No. 6972)
b) Home-based Programs.

8. 1.ECCD Curriculum
2.Parent Education and
Involvement, Advocacy
and Mobilization of
Communities
3.Human Resource
Development Program
4.ECCD Management
5.Quality Standards and
Accreditation

9. ECCD Curriculum - focuses on the
child’s total development, delivery of
complementary and integrative services
for health care, nutrition, early
childhood education, and social
protection and the use the child’s
first language as the medium of
instruction.

10. Parent Education and
Involvement, Advocacy and
Mobilization of Communities -
harness and develop parents’
strengths as providers of ECCD
at home, and active ECCD
partners in their communities.

11. Human Resource Development
Program - entails
establishing the mechanism
for the systematic
professionalization of ECCD
service providers.

12. ECCD Management -focuses on the
continuing process of planning,
implementation, supervision, financial
management, monitoring and evaluation
of ECCD at the local government level
guided by the principles of
decentralization as stipulated in the
Local Government Code of 1991

13. Quality Standards and
Accreditation -ensure that
each component in the ECCD
System complies with national
quality standards.

15. To enhance the physical, social, emotional, cognitive,
psychological, spiritual and language development of young
children.
To enhance the role of parents and other caregivers as the
primary caregivers and educators of their children from birth
onwards.
To ensure that young children are adequately prepared for the
formal learning system and that both public and private
schools are responsive to the developmental needs of these
children.

16. To facilitate a smooth transition from care and education
provided at home to community or school-based setting and to
primary school.
To enhance the capabilities of service providers and their
supervisors to comply with quality standards for various ECCD
programs.
To enhance and sustain the efforts of communities to promote
ECCD programs and ensure that special support is provided for
poor and disadvantaged communities.

17. Promote the rights of children to
survival, development, and social
protection
Support parents in their roles as
primary caregivers and as their
children’s first teachers
Spells out the vision for an improved
quality of life for children 0 to 6 and
their families

18. Provides a comprehensive, holistic approach
that addresses the development of the whole
child — physical, social, emotional, mental
and spiritual)
Promotes the delivery of complementary
health, nutrition, social protection and
other social services to children 0 to 6 and
their families
Collectively owned and supported by the local
government, the community and families

19. Mandates the establishment of multi-
sectoral coordinating mechanisms to
ensure sustained collaboration at
national and local levels
Involves multi-sectoral and interagency
collaboration at the national and local
levels among various stakeholders.
Reward degree completion with wage
supplements or tax credits.

20. RA 8990 No. Section 10.
For the implementation of this Act, the amount of Four hundred million pesos
(P400,000,000.00) per year for five (5) years is hereby appropriated for the National
ECCD Program of the council effective upon approval of this Act. Said amount shall be
funded from the gross income of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation
and shall be directly remitted in four (4) quarterly installments to a special account of
the Council. Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the operations of the
Council shall be included in the General Appropriations Act.
A supplementary appropriations in the amount of Thirty million pesos
(P30,000,000.00) shall be provided to the Council from the President's Organizational
Adjustment Fund upon approval of this Act.

21. FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS

22. Process by which an organization or institution provides professional development
activities to enhance individuals with knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to
perform their functions effectively.
Activities under this are trainings, seminars, workshops, conferences, scholarships and
job-embedded learning. Conduct of these activities shall involve a systematic process of
competence/needs assessment, planning, designing, resource development and the
actual delivery of the programs.

23. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7784
AN ACT TO STRENGTHEN TEACHER EDUCATIONIN THE
PHILIPPINESBY ESTABLISHING CENTERSOF EXCELLENCE,
CREATINGA TEACHER EDUCATION COUNCILFOR THE
PURPOSE, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE, ANDFOR
OTHER PURPOSES

24. Personnel Category CompetencyStandards andTools
Teachers
National Competency-Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS)
NCBTS Teachers Strengths and Needs Assessment (NCBTS-TSNA)
School Heads
National Competency-Based Standards for School Heads (NCBS-SHs)
Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
Regional, Division and
DistrictSupervisors
Competency Standards for Supervisor
Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
Non-Teaching
Personnel
Competency Standards for Non-Teaching Personnel
Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
Bases of Trainings

25. Protect and promote the right of all citizens
to quality education at all levels and shall
take appropriate steps to make such education
accessible to all. It is likewise
universally recognized that the teacher is
the key to the effectiveness of the teaching-
learning process by drawing out and nurturing
the best in the learner as a human being and
a worthy member of society.

26. Provide and ensure quality education by
strengthening the education and training
of teachers nationwide through a national
system of excellence for teacher
education.
View teacher development as a continuum
Develop teacher profiles to align teacher
development, performance standards and
school needs

27. Educate and train teachers of unquestionable
integrity and competence, and who are
committed to their continuing professional
growth and obligation to help their students
grow as responsible individuals and citizens
of the Philippines and of the world.
Encourage all teachers, not just specialist
teachers, to prepare themselves for diverse
classrooms.

28. RA No. 7784 Section 10.
The sum of One hundred million pesos (P100,000,000) is hereby
authorized to be appropriated from the income of duty-free shops or
otherwise known as the Trust Liability Account of the Department of
Tourism, for the initial organizational and developmental activities of the
Centers and the Council: provided, however, that not more than five
percent (5%) shall be devoted to Council's expenses. Thereafter, such
amount as may be included in the annual budget of the Department of
Education, Culture and Sports.

29. CHILD–FRIENDLY
SCHOOL SYSTEMS

31. DM 73, s. 2006 - Child-Friendly School
System at The Elementary And Secondary
Levels was approved and signed in 2006 and
was launched on March 6-7, 2006 in the
Philippines.

32. A child-friendlyschool reflectsa qualityenvironment.
It regards education as every child’s right and helps to monitor the
rights andwell-beingof everychild in the community.
It acts in the interests of the ‘whole’ child, which includes his or her
health, nutrition and overall well-being.
It cares about what happens to children in their families and
communities before they enter school and after they leave it.

33. Ensures every child or students live in an environment that is
physically safe, emotionally secure and psychologically
enabling.
Knows and emphasizes children's rights.
Ensures every child an environment that is physically safe,
emotionally secure and psychologically enabling which will be
monitored as well by the government official of the country.
Promotes quality education and empowerment.

37. BUDGETARY APPROPRIATIONS

43. Education is getting the biggest slice of the
proposed 2020 national budget.
In the reconciled version of the P4.1-trillion
budget that was approved by Congress, P17.1
billion was earmarked for the Department of
Education (DepEd), the State Universities and
Colleges (SUC), and the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) to fund various programs.
- (Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara)

44. STATE UNIVERSITIES
AND COLLEGE
P8.349 B
CHED
P7.1 B
Private Education Students
Financial Assistance Program
P1 b
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Budget Appropriation (2020)
Others
P1.697

45. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
OF EDUCATION

47. Face-to-face interaction is restricted.
Remote learning will take place.
Different teaching and learning modalities will be used:
modular learning, online learning, use of radio and TV and
blended learning.
Parents guide and help their children in the learning
process.
Teachers serves as the as the facilitator of learning. Also,
they design the course and setting the needs of the
learners.

49. THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION In Bicol this 2020 …
 Informal and diverse
 Immersive learning
 Guided, independent and/or individualized instruction
 Shaped by assistive technologies but driven by change and
improved energy infrastructure.
 Fully automated by progressive transformation.

50. “Education is the passport to the future, for
tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today.

51. Thank you!!
- Crishell