The passage of time through a new millennium saw education undergoing scrutiny or being given a reexamination. Some even venture to say; “it is going through a paradigm shift.” One point that is given importance at present in the Junior high school is Entrepreneurship. This is integrated in the lessons to be taken in Grade 10 AralingPanlipunan, and in Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE), in which both have the purpose of realizing the importance of entrepreneurship to the nation’s economy. It helps in the movement of the capital of a nation. By having many entrepreneurs, many different kinds of jobs will be created. Competition will make the quality of products and service higher. As Abraham Lincoln puts it “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”
The Department of Education (DepEd) through DepEd Order no.31, s. 2012 otherwise known as Policy Guidelines on the Implementation of Grades 1-10 of the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) Effective School Year 2012-2013 will be implemented in which the desired outcomes of grades 1 to10 program are defined in terms of expectancies as articulated in the learning standards. In general terms, students are expected at the end of grade 10 to demonstrate communicative competence, think intelligently, critically and creatively in life situations, make informed and values–based decision; use resources sustainability and current happenings and issues in economics and national development.
In this Curriculum, the implications of this new world of work where firms are compelled to be learning organizations in order to survive is that workers must be lifelong learners. They may have been a mere option in the past but lifelong learning is now considered a significant requirement not only to stay employed or to continue to be a productive citizen but to have a fulfilled life.
Filipinos are generally known as innovative entrepreneurs from street vending to variety stores (sari-sari stores), loading stations, and retail shops to multimillion companies. The strength of an entrepreneur is vital to the economy of a nation. It is very timely that students are now having a taste of what entrepreneurship is. as Tibig puts it, do not rely on too much knowledge acquired from the high school textbooks, but instead one must observe on what is happening to our business sectors. At present there are so many products which offer franchise to Filipinos with a very small business capital. Some products which offer franchise are Chooks to Go, Dunkin Donut, Ehje’s Peanut Butter; bigger capital includes, The Generics Pharmacy, MangInasal and others. Certainly, this is not because it is a new millennium. The reason really is that there are other forces that are tapping on and may be even ramming down the gates of the field of business education.
Different personalities are helping to make the nation’s economy through entrepreneurship, like Ramon Lopez, the Executive Director for the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, Miriam Quiambao, Actress, TV Personality, and Entrepreneur, Leah B. del Castillo, Editor-in- Chief, Entrepreneur Philippines, Tess NganTian, President & Co-founder, Lot’s A Pizza, and Paulo M. Tibig, Entrepreneur, Professional Speaker & Entrepreneurship Advocate.
Students of Entrepreneur can be inspired by lessons from the Economics book and other references and more so of the entrepreneurs at present who started from small scale business, but now are considered millionaires, since they are both successful financially.
Reference:
Dep Ed Order No.31 s.2012. Policy and Implementing Guidelines of the K to 12 Basic Education Program
Tibig, Strategies of An Entre Champ., Paulo
By: MARILYN D. SACDALAN | T-I | BATAAN NATIONALHIGH SCHOOL City of Balanga
