Deped Mapeh Curriculum Guide
Millicent
The proposed curriculum guides will necessitate the writing, printing, and publication of a new batch of textbooks, learning modules, and other instructional materials, and I feel that it is a duty incumbent upon me to show the makers and creators of these new curriculum guides the lessons we ought to have learned from the many errors and mistakes of the past, in order to guide them and to persuade them to do it right this time.
It is disturbing to discover that in the new curriculum, five subjects, namely civics, arts, culture, history, and health are to be combined together into one subject called Sikap which stands for Sibika, Kultura, Kasaysayan, at Kagalingang Pangkatawan.
HISTORY, and specifically PHILIPPINE HISTORY, will be lumped together with such minor subjects as civics, arts, culture and health, and therefore stands in real danger of being diluted to the point of irrelevance and inconsequence. Philippine history will be taught only in Grade 5 and 6. The lessons on the Marcos dictatorship and martial law will be taught to sixth graders who are just 10 or 11 years old and they will never encounter Philippine history ever again when they are in high school!
The curriculum is being subjected to change every now and then, mostly driven by the personal whim and caprice of whoever sits as head of the DepEd. Our ruined and damaged system of education proves the utter folly and insanity of this constant and incessant change. Change is worthless and useless if it is not a change for the better.
MAPEH, considered as a MINOR subject in the current K-12 Curriculum, should have more emphasis and importance to make it more interactive, more creative and more attractive to the learners. Modules and learning materials as of the moment, does not give justice to the importance of MAPEH to a learner's well being. Our current curriculum for Home Learning or Module-based learning due to the Pandemic does not have any helpful content.
Lack of funding to provide the best way to teach MAPEH in our current curriculum is evident. As we all know, there are lack of equipment at schools to properly teach MAPEH as a subject. Therefore, stragglers for the said subject is high. On top of that, current modules are hard to comprehend without proper examples, videos, photos and the likes. MAPEH modules should be solid and comprehensible therefore DepEd should revamp our current MAPEH curriculum.
Help me to make this happen! As per an online article, "MAPEH teaches self-management skills and motor skills that can be used to plan for and perform life-long physical activity. MAPEH, more importantly, contributes to cognitive function and improved test scores in math, language arts and other academic subjects."
- Offer MAPEH teachers training on the following competencies: playing or using
musical instruments; advanced technology for teaching art and its complexities; coaching/facilitating games and sports both traditional and non-traditional; teaching
different dances (in Philippines and in Asia as Asia is part of the curriculum)
- For every public school, like Computer rooms for Computer subject, there should be a MAPEH room where all MAPEH equipment will be visible, stored and used by students as these are stated in the current curriculum guide of DepEd but does not have any actual equipment on the schools and are currently provided or bought by students that is costly for some and cannot be afforded by most of the students:
For MUSIC:
Actual musical instruments like Piano or Organ, Guitars, Ukulele
For ARTS:
Art materials like paint, clays, cardboard, rulers, protractors, cross-stitching materials, beads and fabrics
For PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Basic physical education equipment like ribbon, hoop, balls, or any indigenous or improvised materials, materials for fold dances like maglalatik and tinikling, then Badminton rackets, Arnis, table tennis and kata
- For Online classes, modules should contain video links of actual lessons to easily guide them with how it is done, where to do it, why do they need to do it. Not everyone has guitars or pianos at home, therefore, DepEd should provide resources where agents can acquire these knowledge rather than reading only.
After much debate and resistance, K-12 has finally been embraced by the Philippine government as a new method for the education system. Although some sectors think this system would be costly and disadvantageous, it is in fact a necessity for the country to gain an edge on global competitiveness.
K-12 is the recognized standard for students and professionals all over the world, and is believed to be the best period for learning under basic education. Before the Philippines jumped in to the K-12 system, we were one of the three countries still implementing the 10-year system.
These curriculum guides further explain the standards, goals and class flow of each subject. Keep in mind that these teaching resources are free and are allowed to be downloaded and printed for the use and advantage of both students and teachers.
A separate order issues the dedicated guidelines for assessing Kindergarten learners. You need to know that In the case of Kindergarten, anecdotal and checklists are preferred rather than numerical grades. So these tools are designed to outline the learning standards in the Kindergarten curriculum guidebook.
Although DepEd Grading System is a vital component of the Philippine education system. It offers you a standardized approach to evaluating your academic performance. Meanwhile, a consistent update and upgrade of the grading system is also needed.
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