Education For All 2015
Education For All 2015
Education For All 2015
Reported by: Daren Clarence g. David M.A. Educational Management Modern Trends and Practices in Education
What is EFA? Why do we need EFA? Who benefits in EFA? What is the plan of EFA? How EFA implemented? What are the goals of EFA?
Problem. .
Reasons. . .
Economic reason Health Disabilities School adjustment
OBJECTIVES
Universal coverage of out-ofschool youth and adults in the provision of learning needs; Universal school participation and total elimination of dropouts and repetition in Grades 1 to 3;
Universal completion of full cycle of basic education schooling with satisfactory achievement levels by all at every grade or year; and Commitment by all Philippine communities to the attainment of basic education competencies for all Education for All by All.
GOALS
In 2000, the Philippines, as a reaffirmation of the vision set in the 1990 World Declaration, committed itself to the following EFA 2015 Goals at the World Education Forum in Dakar:
Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children; Ensure that by 2015, all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality; Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs;
Achieve a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2105, especially for women and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults; Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2015, with focus on ensuring girls full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality; and Improve every aspect of the quality of education, and ensure their excellence so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes
TASK
To attain the above goals, nine urgent and critical tasks were formulated. The six production tasks will hopefully yield the desired educational outcomes while the three enabling tasks will be necessary to sustain effective implementation of the production aspects. These tasks are enumerated below:
Production Tasks Better Schools: Make every school continuously perform better; Early Childhood Care and Development: Make expansion of coverage yield more EFA benefits; Alternative Learning System: Transform non-formal and informal interventions into an alternative learning system yielding more EFA benefits; Teachers: Promote practice of high quality teaching; Longer Cycle: Adopt a 12-year program for formal basic education Two more years added, one each for elementary and high school, to the existing 10-year basic education schooling; Accelerate articulation, enrichment and development of the basic education curriculum in the context of the pillars of new functional literacy;
Enabling Task Funding: Provide adequate and stable public funding for country-wide attainment of EFA goals. Adoption of funding framework for basic education that combines the national and local government funding to support the most costeffective local efforts to attain quality outcomes in every locality across the whole country; Governance: Create a network of community-based groups for local attainment of EFA goals. A knowledge-based movement which reach, engage and organize persons in each locality to form a nationwide network of multi-sectoral groups advocating and supporting attainment of EFA goals in their respective localities; and Monitor progress in efforts towards attainment of EFA goals. Of particular importance is the development and implementation of indicators of quality education.
PROJECTS
Objectives of SBM
Empower SHs in leading the school improvement process towards higher learning outcomes; Bring resources including funds within the control of schools to support the delivery of quality educational services; Strengthen partnership with the communities and LGUs in providing a better school learning environment; Institutionalize participatory and knowledgebased continuous school improvement process
PROJECT REACH
By 2015, achieve: 98% universal school participation 81% universal completion of the full cycle of basic education satisfactory achievement level by all at every grade level (80 MPS)
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
ALL 6 15 year old CHILDREN in disadvantaged or marginalized communities who are victims of exploitation and/or neglect with disabilities
National English Proficiency Program -is a training program to improve the English proficiency of elementary and secondary level teachers and administrators. It complements the Every Child a Reader Program. It was implemented on June 2003 in compliance with Executive Order 210 mandating the use of the English language as the primary medium of instruction in all public and private schools.
Project on Strengthening the Support System for School-based INSET Institutionalization The Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) is supportive of continuous development of administrators, teachers and nonteaching personnel. It supported the training of school heads, district and division supervisors in performing their respective roles in monitoring the conduct of school-based inservice training and providing instructional supervision of teachers.
Educational Service Contracting (ESC) Education Voucher System (EVS) Special Education Program (SPED) Special Science Elementary Schools (SSES) Special Program in the Arts (SPA) Information Computer Technology(ICT)