ALS-EST Handbook Chapter04 PDF
ALS-EST Handbook Chapter04 PDF
ALS-EST Handbook Chapter04 PDF
ALS K to 12 Curriculum
The ALS K to 12 Curriculum contains a learning continuum of essential skills,
knowledge, attitudes, life skills, learning-to-learn skills, and values desired for ALS
Learners.
Table 4-1 lists the six interrelated learning strands contained in the 2018 ALS K to
12 Curriculum. ALS-EST Learners and completers are expected to demonstrate
learning of competencies from each of the six learning strands.
These are statements of the core content in terms of knowledge or skill that
students should learn and understand.
These are more specific applied knowledge, skills, and values that indicate
or validate learning consistent with the broader content and performance
standards.
The curriculum indicates to what ALS level the learning competency is
applicable.
Learning Strand 1
Learning Strands 2 and 3 are intended to develop skills which include the core competencies
of scientific literacy and numeracy. Integrated across scientific and numeracy literacy skills
are the critical functional competencies of openness to change, awareness of options, ability
to make critical and informed decisions, curiosity, innovativeness and creativity, scientific
thinking, logical reasoning, spatial intelligence, and future orientation. These competencies
specifically seek to extend and refine learners’ critical and creative thinking processes including
the abilities to:
1. organize new knowledge
2. gather and analyze information
3. categorize things and ideas
4. make comparisons
5. infer principles from evidences
6. critique one’s own thinking
7. evaluate options as a basis of decision making
8. apply the scientific process
9. seek explanation for applying the scientific process
10. support assertions with evidences
11. overcome obstacles and find a better way to do things
12. apply principles to draw conclusions
13. learn independently
The ultimate goal of Learning Strands 2 and 3 is to develop individuals who are aware of their
own thinking, able to make critical and informed decisions, defend their ideas and evaluate the
ideas of others and are persistent in striving for new ways of solving problems. Through the
development of such critical thinking and problem-solving skills, ALS learners will enhance
their own personal and social effectiveness as a pathway to improve quality of life.
Learning Strand 4 focuses on the attitudes, skills, and knowledge (competencies) necessary
for earning a living and promoting a sustainable lifestyle.
This learning strand covers the ability to earn a living–through employment/self-employment,
entrepreneurship, sustainable consumption–live within one’s means, navigate the market place
(as both consumer and seller), reduce wasteful expenditure and perform wise consumption/
utilization of resources, conserve resources for future generations, and produce and use
work-related skills, knowledge, values, and technology to maximize one’s efficiency and
performance as a productive citizen.
In addition to demonstrating mastery of skills completed under Learning Strand 4, all ALS
learners are encouraged to complete at least one TVL track specialization leading to the
acquisition of occupational skills and a NC. Learners are referred to the list of specializations in
formal school’s TVL Track.
Learning Strand 5 is intended to help learners acquire a positive sense of self and social
responsibility that will lead them to develop their potentials and enable them to live together
harmoniously within the contexts of their family, local community, and country as well as
participate as a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and an
increasingly global community.
In an increasingly globalized world, it is important that learners are able to see things through
the hearts, minds, and eyes of others and understand the impact of regional and global issues
on their lives and the lives of the members of their family, community, and country.
The learning strand endeavors to encourage learners to continue developing the knowledge,
attitudes, values, and skills in order to act locally in building a just, peaceful, equitable,
compassionate, multi-cultural, and pluralistic society. Hence, it is important to articulate in
the minds of the learners that whatever they do affects their sphere of influence (family and
community) and creates an impact on the nation, the region, and the world. Thus, as members
of the ASEAN and world communities, learners’ horizons for developing identity need to be
national, regional, and global.
This learning strand seeks to help equip ALS learners with critical knowledge, skills, and values
to be able to live and work effectively as part of the digital universe.
To achieve digital literacy, ALS learners need both Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT)-related knowledge and skills and the ability to integrate such skills and
knowledge across the competencies listed in the other four learning strands of the ALS
curriculum. This is the application part where the learners use their digital knowledge and skills
as tools to communicate with others and solve problems in daily life. Each of the other four
learning strands will thus go hand in hand with Learning Strand 6.
This Learning Strand covers the following digital citizenship competencies:
1. Digital Concepts
2. Digital Operations and Management
3. Digital Applications
4. Digital Systems Network
5. Digital Devices
6. Digital Ethics
Alignment to Formal K to 12
Table 4-2 provides the alignment of the ALS K to 12 Curriculum with the grade
levels of the formal school system.
It does not have all the competencies of the formal school curriculum.
ALS K to 12 curriculum adds competencies not found in the formal school
system:
– Digital citizenship skills
– Global citizenship skills
– Learning-to-learn skills
– Life skills-related competencies
ALS-EST caters to a special subset of learners who have different capacities and
needs. For the Program to be relevant for them, and to increase the likelihood that
they will complete the Program, the curriculum has to be responsive to learners’
needs and expectations.
In such cases, the ALS teachers will customize learning programs around needed
competencies based on the ALS K to 12 Curriculum while ensuring integration
with the skills training component. These functional literacy type programs might
be shorter than a regular ALS-EST equivalency program.
Most of the 98 pilot ALS-EST schools implement skills training curricula anchored
on the national technical training standards of TESDA. Table 4-3 lists some of
these technical skills and subskills training.
Table 4-3. Examples of Technical Skills and Subskills Training Offered by TESDA
Demand and supply factors influence the choice of skills training offered by the
pilot schools. Whether a skill qualifies for TESDA NC also matters.
A careful consideration of these demand and supply factors should constitute the
basis for generating a list of priority skills training that may be offered through the
ALS-EST program.
• ALS-EST schools need to consider the available resources in the host school
and community to determine the supply side.
For example, schools need to take stock of the availability of the following:
Skill trainers/assessors
Materials
Workshops
Equipment
• On the demand side, schools need to align their skills training offerings to the
preferrences of target learners, and the human resource requirements of the
community.
Aligning skills training with job market demands helps to increase the
likelihood of employment for ALS-EST graduates, and avoid skills-employ-
ment mismatch.
The schools need to conduct market analysis to identify skill areas with high
demand in the labor market. This requires consulting with key stakeholders,
such as TESDA, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Labor
and Employment (DOLE), LGUs, private employers/Chambers of Commerce
and skills training providers among others.
Aligning these learning competencies require that the ALS teachers and Skills
Trainers work together to do joint mapping, draw up the syllabi together, and
plan the teaching tasks (see Chapter 6, Learning Delivery, and Chapter 7, Learning
Facilitators and Tech-Voc Teachers).
There have been efforts by ALS-EST schools and non-DepEd partners to integrate
skills training with the teaching of education competencies. Box 4-2 and Box 4-3
give examples.
• Curriculum Web: From the identified competencies for both basic ed and skills training,
a central theme or a binding project/performance may be utilized to connect these
competencies together. Figure 4-1 shows a sample curriculum web.
Figure 4-1. Sample Curriculum Web: ALS Competencies and Skills Competencies
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Tabulating All Data
Source: IVFMSF (n.d.)
References
• DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Omnibus K to 12 Policy. Forthcoming.
• INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION. A Skilled Workforce for
Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. 2010.
• INOCENCIO V. FERRER MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF FISHERIES. A Journey
of IVFMSF ALS-EST Towards Curriculum Integration: An Innovation
(PowerPoint Presentation). n.d.
• SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY. Presentation on Curriculum Integration for ALS-
EST. Unpublished.
• TECHNICAL EDUCATON AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
Training Regulations. Retrieved June 2018. Available at www.tesda.gov.ph/
Download/Training_Regulations
• TULOY SA DON BOSCO FOUNDATION INC. Training Syllabus for Baking
Technology. Unpublished.