The BEC is an interactive curriculum. This means that there is constant interaction between and among the teachers and students and also with the materials. In this respect, you are not the only authority in the classroom. You are only the facilitator, the guide to your students’ learning. You allow your students to “construct their own knowledge.” If they do, they will learn better than when you just “pour knowledge” into them. They are not empty vessels that need to be filled up. Ideally, students must be guided to learn through helping each other. They do this by engaging in collaborative learning.
The Structure of BEC
The Structure of the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum The objectives of elementary and secondary education serve as the “official learning goals” of basic education as stated for a particular population of learners; that is, the elementary and secondary education learners. The Bureau of Alternative Learning System (formerly Non-formal Education) likewise has a set of official learning goals for its particular set of target learners – the out-of-school youth and adults. The Education Act of 1982 or Batas Pambansa Blg. 232 provides the general objectives of elementary, secondary, and non-formal education. The objectives of elementary education are as follows: 1. Provide the knowledge and develop the skills, attitudes, and values essential for personal development, a productive life, and constructive engagement with a changing social milieu; 2. Provide learning experiences that increase the child’s awareness of and responsiveness to the just demands of society; 3. Promote and intensify awareness of, identification with, and love for our nation and the community to which the learner belongs; 4. Promote experiences that develop the learner’s orientation to the world of work and prepare the learner to engage in honest and gainful work. The objectives of secondary education are threefold: 1. Continue the general education started in