30 January 2012

DepEd drops 'Science' for pupils


The Department of Education (DepEd) has decided to drop “Science” from the roster of subjects taken up by incoming Grade 1 pupils in line with its efforts to decongest the Basic Education Curriculum and to make learning more enjoyable to young learners.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the move to exclude Science in Grade 1 subjects starting this coming school year is based on the design of K to 12 curriculum. “The overall design of the new curriculum to be introduced and implemented this coming June to both Grade 1 and First Year high school students is based on the idea that we should be taking the students where they are,” Luistro said in an interview.
But Luistro noted that excluding the subject does not mean that Science concepts will not be introduced to Grade 1 students at all. “We will be integrating topics in other subjects to make the new curriculum more child-friendly,” he explained.

Luistro stressed that while the K to 12 curriculum is much more simplified, a lot of topics will be integrated in the subjects. “For instance, there will be no Science subject in Grade 1 but when the students do the readings, there will be Science concepts introduced but Science is not the subject,” he explained.
Based on the design of the new curriculum, the learning areas for Grade 1 will be Mother Tongue, Filipino, Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao, Music, Art, Physical Education and Health (MAPEH), Mathematics, Araling Panlipunan, and English – which will be taught in the second semester and will mainly focus on oral fluency.
Science, as a subject, will be introduced when they get to Grade 3; the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan when they reach Grade 4 and Technology and Livelihood Education when they become Grade 6 students.
By INA HERNANDO-MALIPOT
mb.com.ph

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