Chapter 1 - Introduction

A. Rationale
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of
knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include
storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Over the
years there have been many changes in the way education is designed and
delivered in parts of the world. This includes innovation, development, and
reconstruction. The continuous development over the educational system is
for the benefit of the community. However, the rapid and constant change
and innovation greatly affects the learners. It may be for their capability,
immensity of knowledge, and many other factors may it be good or bad.
In order to synchronize along with the well-developed countries, we must
ensure that our country is giving the proper and appropriate education to the
students. Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international
community. However, our current education system hinders us from
becoming even more competitive. Republic Act No. 10533, otherwise known
as the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, has expanded the years of
schooling in basic education from 10 years to 12 years.
"Today knowledge is ubiquitous, constantly changing, growing
exponentially... Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water. It's
become a commodity... There's no competitive advantage today in knowing
more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know.

What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know."
(Wagner, 2012)
Innovative education in this generation is a must. There are factors to be
considered in the new standard of learning. One of this is the teachers who
should be prepared also for the new standard of learning. Republic Act No.
10533 Section 7 states that:
To ensure that the enhanced basic education program meets the demand
for quality teachers and school leaders, the DepED and the CHED, in
collaboration with relevant partners in government, academe, industry, and
nongovernmental organizations, shall conduct teacher education and
training programs
The implementation of the K-12 plan in the Philippine Basic Education
Curriculum is the key to our nations development. Though the government
faces many problems as it implements the program over the course of
several years, it is a necessary improvement since increasing the quality of
our education is critical to our nation's success..
Cruz (2015) stated that the whole point of the entire K to 12 reform is to
answer the needs of about 30 million young people (those below 24 years of
age) who have not finished Fourth Year High School. Of the out-of-school
youth of employable age, more than six million are unemployed, primarily
because they do not have the skills that employers want. The K-12 program
totally restructures the basic education system in the country, aiming to

provide some solutions to the widespread unemployment of the youth. Its

not all about adding two years in the educational system, but also preparing
the students for the future education. To prep them up incase they couldnt
afford the financial attachment of college.
LCP (2015) said that we should be prepared of major education reform and
we should be getting started now. They also said that we would never know
if were ready unless we do it now.