PRODUCING JOB-READY CITIZENS / Values education intensified in new curriculum
- Will Cymon Castillo
- Mar 11, 2024
- 2 min read
TAGUM CITY, PHILIPPINES - To ensure job-ready citizens in Davao Region once senior high school students graduate, the MATATAG curriculum brings back the subject Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) in promoting the right values education in learners.
This is elaborately explained in RA. 11476, which states a systematic and explicit integration of deped core values and recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation-building and promotes and protects their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being.
“To ensure that the curriculum is relevant and prepares students for the workforce. We are prepared for that change, and you are those K–12 curriculum learners. We didn't sacrifice; we just shortened. Values education is intensified for students in the MATATAG curriculum through reading, writing, listening, and other activities,” says Chief Education Supervisor Mary Jeanne Aldeguer.
The Department of Education and Training (DepEd) intends to offer them additional opportunities, such as guidance counseling services for self- and career-consultation, which the department already provides.
These students are said to be taught on how to defend their holistic viewpoints and that they would be aware of their right to speak up as well as their right to be protected.
According to Aldeguer, the new curriculum will keep providing students with the appropriate materials and instruction, and Vice President Sara will revisit it in five years, keeping all sectors of the economy occupied in the process of ensuring its sustainability.
GRMC, along with values education, are preparations that are scheduled to take place on every learning camp Friday—previously known as catch-up fridays—in the afternoon, continuing to promote the instillation of moral principles in students.
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