DepEd 7 trains over 600 private teachers in C. Visayas for K to 12

By Juju Manubag-Empuerto

Thursday 7th of June 2012

CEBU CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- Slightly over 600 private school teachers in Central Visayas are currently undergoing a weeklong training on the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum at different venues in Cebu City.

Dep Ed-7 Chief of the Administrative Division Eda S. Cabantan bared that the training started last Monday and will end on Friday. Participants to the training include 234 Grade 1 teachers and 369 Grade 7 teachers in private schools throughout the region.

The training and workshop will tackle, among others, the K to 12 curriculum; implementing guidelines of the elementary curriculum; championing change; science concepts integration; mother tongue; domains for each language and standards at the end of Grades 1 and 3; K to 12 lesson planning; micro teaching; and teaching guides and pupil activity sheets in learning areas of Health, Math, English, Filipino, Arts, Music, and Physical Education, disclosed Cabantan.

Identified training centers in the region for the Grade 7 level will be with their partner Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) such as the Cebu Normal University (CNU) and the Cebu Technnological University (CTU) in Cebu Citry, while the Grade 1 level trainers training will take place at different division’s training centers, added the DepEd official.

The breakdown of the 369 Grade 7 teachers with the corresponding areas of specialization are: 56 in Science; 41 in Music, Arts, Physical Education & Health (MAPEH); 61 in Math; 56 in English; 30 in Filipino/Applied Nutrition; 27 in Values; 30 in Araling Panlipunan; and 68 in Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) subjects.

The DepEd official said that the revised curriculum will also be introduced to incoming high school freshmen or the Grade 7 students this school year.

Based on the curriculum guide, Grade 7 will have the same subjects as in Grade 1, minus the Mother Tongue subject, since this will be offered from Grades 1 to 3 only.

The high school freshmen on the other hand, will have the Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) subject, which will offer various skills-enhancing topics for the entire high school level, this is said.

Cabantan added the K to 12 Program will add two more years in the high school level. The additional two-years will offer students subjects or electives that will offer specialization skills depending on the occupation or career track the students wish to pursue.

The DepEd 7 official, however, said that the incoming 2nd to 4th year high school students will not be included in the additional two years. (FCR/JSME/PIA 7-Cebu)