1) Strengthening Early Childhood Education
Research shows that children who go through standards-based kindergarten programs have higher completion rates than those who do not. Through required pre-school, each child aged 5 years old will now gain access to early childhood learning.

Students will learn letters, numbers, shapes, and colors through songs, dances, and games using their mother tongue. This is a bold step toward making Grade 1 students a reader and a way to get them ready for formal schooling.

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2) Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners
Studies show that students grasp their lessons well if they can relate to them. Thus, the new program will include examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and pictures based on culture, history, and reality. Added as well are thoughts on issues such as disaster prevention, climate change, and Information and Communication Technology or ICT.

Through relevancy, they expect the students to gain in-depth knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through continuity and consistency across every level and subject.

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3) Building Skill
Experts have proven that children learn lessons and a second language better and are more active in class when mentors teach them in their mother tongue. To build skill, learners must keep their ethnic uniqueness, values, and culture. To do this, the program will use the child’s main language in studying and on learning tools from kindergarten through third grade.

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4) Ensuring Unified and Seamless Learning
In spiral progression, students first learn the basic concepts while they will study the complex ones in the next grades. This lets them learn topics and lessons that match their developmental and cognitive skills. As learners revisit and share them over again, they strengthen retention and enhance mastery of the topics and skills.

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5) Gearing Up for the Future
The new program aims to guarantee college preparedness and brace TechVoc education and training. This lets students choose their career path based on talent, interests, and the school’s capacity. Their track choice will define the subjects they will study in Grades 11 and 12.

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6) Nurturing the Fully Developed Filipino
Beyond kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and senior high schools, each K-12 graduate will be ready to move to different paths. It could be

for education, employment, or enterprise.