Education now a days is the key factor towards ones success , mostly from formal education, A student is required to go to school to earn knowledge and learn the skills,values and beliefs and the formation of a good work habit and attitude needed in order for him to compete with the others. In order to do that the government have provided the school facilities such as classrooms, shops, basketball court, theater/ audio visual room and others that will be used in the development of learning.
Curriculum is another factor to consider for students to cope up with the changing needs of the world of work. The curriculum is set on goals that will be useful for students, a decade ago learning to speak Spanish is included in the Philippine curriculum, today learning is focused on computer use andits operations.The country’s current curriculum is set on the learning goals of the K to 12 program. It is planned to incorporate learning to the instructional content, materials and other resources.
The teacher is the one who educate the students. He facilitates learning by teaching, discussion, storytelling, conducting the student’s training and others. He has the major role in the development of the students, he provides instructions in literacy and numeracy, vocational training, Arts, Philosophy and lifelong skills. He should be equipped with knowledge and skills in performing his task. To become a teacher one must obtain specified professional qualification and must pass the licensure examination for teachers. the teacher for basic education is classified as elementary teacher and high school teacher, elementary teacher teaches the basic knowledge and general skills needed by the student in order to procced to higher education, an elementary teacher can teach all subjects because their educational background is based on general education. The High school teacher teaches the continuation but of higher level of education, it is the reason why high school teachers has a major course taken up during their college years.
The K to 12 program have set a new goals in the Philippine education. Kindergarten and additional two years known as Senior High school is added to the curriculum. The Junior High School will offer academic and vocational track that shall be pursued to the Senior High School. In the Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) subject, students chooses their major course such as ICT, Electronics technology, food technology, agriculture and others. This course shall be their technical vocational track for the K-12 program and they shall pursue it up to the Senior High School. The teacher involved in every major shall be teaching exploratory period which is grade 7 or grade 8 then teaches the learning competency of the said area in grade 9 and grade 10 then shall be continued in grade 11 and 12. It is therefore important that the TLE teacher has a broad knowledge of the skills that he is teaching. TLE teachers are graduates of technical –vocational schools/ trade schools and universities specialized in their major.
The number of teachers in secondary schools are normally based on the number of its students, smaller number of students would mean smaller number of teachers .Because there is required number of teaching hours and limited number of section. teachers were forced to teach other subjects than his major. The lack of TLE teachers among these schools plus the requirements of offering major course in the Technical vocational track of the K to 12 program resulted in importing teachers from other subjects who just had training from informal or short term courses.
In the new curriculum the implementation of desire learning competency will still be implemented. The students are expected to meet the desired learning competency so as to be able to pursue college.
The classroom performance of TLE teachers, maybe improved by systematic evaluations. This aimed to improve the quality of instructions, to assist the teacher in identifying areas that needs improvement.
Teachers’ competency in carrying out the learning competency is a big factor especially on application of skills. The teacher should have not only the mastery of the subject but also a broader knowledge of the field. A science teacher teaching computer hardware serving may have a different strategy than aICT teacher. The technical terms in automotive may be explained better by a automotive graduate teacher than those drafting major teacher.Therefore,to fully achieve the purpose of the K-12 program, TLE teachers have to be empowered to strengthen the vocational skills of students.
By: Rodel A. Magat | Teacher-II | Emilo C. Bernabe National High School
