Brief Description of Curriculum in Baggao East Central School

INTRODUCTION

In education a curriculum refers specially to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student’s experiences in terms of the educator’s or school’s instructional goals.

A curriculum is the combination of instructional practices, learning experiences, and students’ performance assessment that are designed to bring out and evaluate the target learning outcomes of a particular course.

PURPOSE

The purpose of the curriculum is encapsulated in the four capacities – to enable each child or young person to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor.

IMPORTANCE OF CURRICULUM TO TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM

Everyone including students, teachers, administrators, parents, community and other stakeholders depends on curriculum for the delivery of quality education. Curriculum directs their expectations. It allows teachers to teach schools subjects effectively.

It helps in to clarify objectives achieved. It leads to improvement of instruction and the teaching learning process motivates the students, determine the students level of knowledge, skills.

CURRICULAR OFFERINGS

In Baggao East Central School, curricular offerings start Kindergarten to Grade 6 and Alternative Learning System. Kindergarten is a program generally for 5 years old that offers developmentally appropriate learning opportunities to build the child’s social and academic skills to prepare them for the transition into first grade and for the school in general. Our curriculum is referred to as K-12 Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum. It aims to enhance learners basic skills, produce more competent citizens and prepare graduates for lifelong learning and employment .But because of the COVID-19 ,the secretary of the Department of the Education introduce Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan.In order to provide clear guidance to all offices, units, schools, and community learning centers of the Department of Education, learners and their parents, partners, and stakeholders. The department developed a Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan(BE-LCP) a package of Education interventions. This is the Department’s response to the challenges posed by COVID-19 in the field of basic education. Education must continue whatever the changes and even dangers we confront now and in the future.

DepEd hereby adopts the enclosed BE-LCP including its Annexes, as the overall framework to govern the School Year 2020-2021 unless sooner repealed, amended, or rescinded. The BE-LCP streamlines the K to 12 Curriculum into the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs),to be delivered in multiple learning modalities and platforms. The MELCs shall be used nationwide by field implementers for SY2020-2021 only. The streamlining of the K to 12 curriculum into the MELCs is an emergency measure to allow instruction amid challenging circumstances to focus on the Most Essential Learning, and to ease the requirements for adapting classroom based learning resource for distance learning. Releasing the MELCs does not diminish the standards set by the full k to 12 curriculum guides. Rather, these serve as one of the guides for teachers as they address the instructional needs of learners while ensuring that curriculum standards are maintained and achieved.