(File photo) MANILA - The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture will prioritize significant reforms in the K-12 curriculum, particularly aimed at improving functional literacy in the Philippines, its chairman said on Thursday. During a Laging Handa briefing, Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo said the present K-to-12 curriculum is congested with learning competencies, stressing the need to reduce the number to the most essential. Romulo said it is crucial to start reviewing and reducing the curriculum in Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3 to develop their functional literacy or their practical skill set needed to read, write, and use math for their common life activities. "Talagang foundational po diyan eh. Ang kailangan po ay siguraduhin ng DepEd (Department of Education) po at ng Kongreso na ang bawat mag-aaral natin ay matuto pong magbasa at naiintindihan iyong kanilang binabasa, at syempre po kaunting mathematics (That is really foundational. DepEd and Congress need to ensure t
If the proposed bill by Quezon City 5th District Rep. Patrick Michael “PM” Vargas passes into law, it could increase the teaching supplies allowance for teachers from P5,000 to P10,000.
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House Bill (HB) No. 4072, or the “Teaching Supplies Allowance Bill,”
Elementary and secondary schools in coastal areas are gearing to become more disaster-resilient after a House panel on Tuesday, Sept. 13, unanimously passed a resolution for the master design and architectural plan for schools in areas regularly hit by calamities.
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A visibly irked Pasig City lone district Rep. Roman Romulo lectured a resource person who cut him mid-sentence during a hearing a committee hearing on the proposed suspension of the implementation of the use of the mother tongue in teaching Filipino children.
Dr. Ricardo Nolasco (left) and Pasig
Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte did not attend the organizational meeting-slash-intiial hearing of the House Committee on Basic Education on Wednesday morning, Aug. 10.
Vice President Sara Duterte
Attending the House panel hearing instead was DepE