National Education Summit - Dinah

National Education Summit January 31 – February 1, 2008 Manila Hotel

Ano ang Education Summit? 

Solusyon  “lumalalang” school system  

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Hadlang sa global student competitiveness Graduates  ill-trained for the job market

Agenda  

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Student performance  a “zero-dropout” rate in schools Teachers’ competencies especially in Math, Science and English “Mismatch” between graduates and the job skills that are actually ‘in demand’

President: Sectors should shape up 

Education system trifocalized = in 1994   

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DepEd CHED TESDA

Executive Order No. 652 (Presidential Task Force for Education) Teachers retrained = 24 units of English Children were prepared = at least a year in preschool or day care before entering Grade 1

Teachers’ Retraining 

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Priority = lowest 5 % of the total number of schools nationwide (+ supplemental learning materials for students) More manageable classroom size = 45 students per classroom

Statistics 

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35% of Filipino Children are “Grade 1-ready” 5.6 M aged 6-11 years old – OSY (*) 

IBON Foundation:  

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drop-out 7.7% (2001) 10.6% (2005) elementary level 8.5% to 15.8% secondary levels

11.6 M = illiterate

Criticisms 

Long-standing controversy 

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Ambitious 

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Social, economic, political factors come to play Alleviate poverty and elevate the country to a First World status within the next 20 years VERY long term

While we are too busy of what language to use as a medium of instruction, we forgot to teach our students how to think (Acuña 1994)

References 

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Contreras, Volt and Michael Lim Ubac. Education summit aims to fix mess in RP schools. Retrieved 6 February 2008 from Students call for ‘overhaul’ in education system. Retrieved 6 February 2008 from