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MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. mentioned on Friday that he instructed incoming Schooling Secretary Senator Sonny Angara to incorporate extra topics about Philippine historical past within the present training curriculum.
Marcos, on the sidelines of an help distribution occasion in Sulu, mentioned “The one factor I requested of him was to please train our youngsters Philippine historical past. As a result of I’ve seen my youngsters’s workbooks, and there’s little or no mentioned in regards to the historical past of the Philippines.
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“And for me, that’s so necessary,” he added, explaining that historical past may assist additional form the identification of Filipinos.
The instructing of Philippine historical past stopped at Grade 6 in the course of the time of former training secretary Leonor Briones.
It was changed by the instructing of Asian historical past in Grade 7, World Historical past in Grade 8, economics in Grade 9, and up to date points in Grade 10.
Different potential adjustments
The President additionally mentioned that sure adjustments are being thought-about within the curriculum, together with the introduction of “mini-courses,” enhancing lecturers’ welfare, simplifying the curriculum, and “going again to the fundamentals.”
Such adjustments are being thought-about after Marcos himself admitted that the Okay-12 curriculum failed to spice up the employability of highschool graduates—the very cause it was applied within the first place.
“Kung titignan natin ang naging resulta, hindi tumaas, hindi gumanda ang employability nila. So we’ve got to do one thing else,” mentioned Marcos.
(If we take a look at the outcome, their employability didn’t enhance or enhance, so we’ve got to do one thing else.)
Marcos mentioned the federal government intends to coordinate with the personal sector to find out and “assure the availability of expert staff” wanted of their respective industries.
STEM, vitamin
Moreover, Marcos mentioned the Division of Schooling would additionally enhance the standard of STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic) based mostly on the outcomes of worldwide goal assessments, which notes the nation must catch up.
“We may even simplify the curriculum. We return to be sure that everyone understands the fundamentals,” he mentioned.
Relating to lecturers’ welfare, Marcos mentioned he instructed Angara to make sure that the the lecturers can focus on precise instructing.
He added that beef feeding packages are additionally being deliberate to deal with malnutrition and stunting amongst Filipino college students.
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