Subjects to be taught for SY 2020-2021 say the same- DepEd

On Monday, Education Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio said during a virtual press briefing that despite the shift to distance/blended learning, schools have the freedom to adjust what subjects will be taught per month provided that all 8 subjects will be covered every grading quarter. There will still be no changes in the subject areas that will be taught.

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San Antonio said that no subjects have been removed, what they did was to review the learning competencies in each subjects and removed some. As already announced, the department only have 40% of the existing competencies that will be taught this year. It will still proceed with all the learning areas.

The K to 12 original curricula's learning competencies are 14,171 and have been streamlined to 5,689 most essential learning competencies to fit the DepEd's Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan, it is a reduction by 60%. San Antonio explained, 

Puwede kasi na hindi sa isang araw walong subjects ang bata. Puwede kasing apat o dalawa pero basta pagkatapos ng isang markahan na-cover na nila lahat yung ibat-ibang learning areas na ‘yon. ‘Yung mga ganon pinayagan ng aming tanggapan, 

[It is allowed not to teach all 8 subjects in one day to the children. They can teach 4 or 2 per day provided that they will cover all subjects every grading quarter. We allow this kind of setup.]

The 8 core subjects are:

• English
• Mathematics
• Filipino
• Science
• Araling Panlipunan
• Technology and Livelihood Education or TLE  (for high school)
• Edukasyong Pangkabuhayan at Pangtahanan (for elementary)
• Music, Arts, Physical Education, and Health (MAPEH)
• Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (ESP).

Only Grades 1 and 2 have Mother Tongue subject. And senior high school students have different subjects depending on the track they are enrolled in.

Meanwhile, for subjects that requires physical appearance for the task such as Technology and Livelihood Education, San Antonio explained that there will be adjustments to be made. The department is discussing how these competencies will be taught to learners especially the demo classes.