Chapter 1 - Introduction

Rationale
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of
knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include
storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Over the
years there have been many changes in the way education is designed and
delivered in parts of the world. This includes innovation, development, and
reconstruction. The continuous development over the educational system is
for the benefit of the community. However, the rapid and constant change
and innovation greatly affects the learners. It may be for their capability,
immensity of knowledge, and many other factors may it be good or bad.
In order to synchronize along with the well-developed countries, we must
ensure that our country is giving the proper and appropriate education to the
students. Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international
community. However, our current education system hinders us from
becoming even more competitive. Republic Act No. 10533, otherwise known
as the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, has expanded the years of
schooling in basic education from 10 years to 12 years.
"Today knowledge is ubiquitous, constantly changing, growing
exponentially... Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water. It's
become a commodity... There's no competitive advantage today in knowing
more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know.

What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know."
(Wagner, 2012)
Innovative education in this generation is a must. There are factors to be
considered in the new standard of learning. One of this is the teachers who
should be prepared also for the new standard of learning. Republic Act No.
10533 Section 7 states that:
To ensure that the enhanced basic education program meets the demand
for quality teachers and school leaders, the DepED and the CHED, in
collaboration with relevant partners in government, academe, industry, and
nongovernmental organizations, shall conduct teacher education and
training programs
The implementation of the K-12 plan in the Philippine Basic Education
Curriculum is the key to our nations development. Though the government
faces many problems as it implements the program over the course of
several years, it is a necessary improvement since increasing the quality of
our education is critical to our nation's success..
Cruz (2015) stated thatthe whole point of the entire K to 12 reform is to
answer the needs of about 30 million young people (those below 24 years of
age) who have not finished Fourth Year High School. Of the out-of-school
youth of employable age, more than six million are unemployed, primarily
because they do not have the skills that employers want. The K-12 program

totally restructures the basic education system in the country, aiming to

provide some solutions to the widespread unemployment of the youth.
LCP (2015) said that we should be prepared of major education reform and
we should be getting started now. They also said that we would never know
if were ready unless we do it now. In other words, we should be getting
started for the preparation for the future. The enhancement of the skills and
knowledge of the people must be resolved currently so it would contribute to
its country in the near future.
The K-12 program accelerates mutual recognition of Filipino graduates and
professionals in other countries. Not only does it opens up more
opportunities but also helps the OFW's save money if ever they'd want to
have a professional career internationally, they dont have to study again to
meet the required level of educational background.
Briones (2016) said Filipinos abroad face discrimination in the workplace and
get lower ranks because they lack two years of secondary education without
the K to 12 in place. In which in that situation, is a problem the government
must put action to. It's one of the reasons the program was implemented.

Background of the Study

After over a decade of the implementation of the basic education curriculum
back in 2002, Philippines remained as the only country in Asia with 10 years
of basic education Before implementing K-12, the Philippines was the last
Asian country and one of only three nations in the world with 10 years of
basic education. The new system, which follows a global standard, will put
Filipino students at par with the rest of the world.
The past education curriculum resulted poor quality of education. Students
low scores in the National Achievement Test (NAT) and Trends in International
Math and Science Study (TIMMS) are a reflection of the past quality of
education in the country.
Students would be too young for labour force. High school graduates of the
old curriculum are generally less than 18 years old and are too young to work
after graduation. This young age is deemed unripe for them to enter the
workforce or enter into business contracts.
People of the country would receive less recognition. Filipino professionals
who have finished a 10-year basic education may not be acknowledged in

many parts of the world. This is due to education requirements set by some
international accreditation agreements. Alternatively, this is where k12
program becomes the solution.
Though many experts believed that K12 curriculum is for the betterment of
the country, Trillanes (2015) says, The present system worked for the earlier
generations, and there is no reason why it shouldnt work for the present
crop of students. Thats a rather simplistic argument against K-to-12, which
seems to be a belated but well-intentioned corrective to an outmoded
system. In other words, he doesnt want to make changes in the previous
educational system. He believes that what we had before was enough and
the enhancement over it was not needed.
Restructuring the Philippiness basic educational system through the K to 12
Program is a tough but strategic move by the government to ensure that it
produces competent graduates who can serve as the backbone for a highly
skilled and employable work force. The implementation of the program has
aroused fear among 13,600 teachers and 11,400 nonteaching staff in higher
education institutions (HEIs) that they would end up losing their jobs due to
the lack of college enrollees.
Petitions have been submitted to the Supreme Court to suspend the program
because politicians and groups find the new system as insufficient
preparation for life after school.

The goal of the enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program is to create a

functional basic education system that will produce productive and
responsible citizens equipped with the essential competencies and skills for
both life long learning and employment. The program will enhance the
basic education system to full functionality to fulfil the basic learning needs
of students.
There will be six years of difficulty during which universities will be
suffering, parents will be suffering But at the end of six years, those who
graduate from senior high school will have better opportunities to get good
jobs, and they can compete abroad, Briones (2016). She noted that the
program was faced with stiff opposition from parents due to the additional
costs of education, but she reminded them that the program would be
beneficial in the long term after six years of difficulty in the first phase of
implementation.

Scope and limitations

The general purpose of this study is to evaluate the opinion and preparations
the students are making for the next level that theyre stepping in. The
topics to be discussed are the school background, mental state
preparedness, financial capability of their parents, and their opinion over the
newly implemented curriculum. This study will evaluate the present Grade
10 students in private high schools. The study will also focus on the
preparations of both the students and the parents concerned about the new
curriculum. We will ask a minimum of 25 persons in our school and in a
different one. The data we will be gathering should be ready within a month
since the respondents we are planning to have are easy to reach out. The
first checklist will contain the public opinion of a person and questions that
are commonly asked by the government. On the other hand, the second part

will contain a little more private opinion from the respondent. This part will
vary quite widely since it is a little evaluation about their personal opinion of
the said topic. We will ensure to respect the privacy of the respondent if they
find our questions a little offensive or reaching past their limitations. We will
also make sure that our questions will be evaluated by our teachers first
before we use them.

Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature

RRL and Studies

This chapter presents related literature and studies which were taken by the
researcher from the different sources in the different libraries/websites.
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