Management Initiatives for Quality Implementation of the K to 12 Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. It is one of the fundamental factors of development, and it plays a very crucial role both in economic and social progress. Education promotes technological advances, raises and improves the quality of people’s lives. In order to enhance the quality education in the Philippines, the K to 12 Program was implemented during the Aquino Administration. Thus, student's performance, issues, and prospects of K to 12 Program implementation and the managerial skills and competencies were all assessed with the end view of proposing management initiatives plan to ensure the quality of the program's implementation.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was applied in the study with the use of a researcher's constructed questionnaire as the main data gathering instrument. To substantiate the obtained data, focus group discussion with the K to 12 teachers of core subjects and unstructured interview with some principals were also conducted. A total of 336 respondents, comprised of 30 principals and 306 K to 12 Teachers of the 5 core subjects served as the respondents of the study. Stratified random sampling was utilized in selecting the respondents. The statistical tools used in the study were weighted mean and T-test.

RESULTS

The Grade 10 students were revealed to have a very satisfactory performance in some core subjects of the K to 12 Program. In addition, teachers agreed while administrators/ school principals moderately agreed with the issues of K to 12 Program implementation. Both of them agreed with its positive prospects. More so, teachers assessed that it is evident that their administrators manifest skills on human relation, technical and communication. On the other hand, administrators themselves assessed those skills as highly evident among them. With regard to the prospects in the implementation of the program, a significant difference was found on the assessments of the two groups of respondents and also in the assessments of the teachers and administrators in the human relation, technical, and communication aspects.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrated the need for management initiatives to enhance the skills among administrators for the quality implementation of the K to 12 Program. Since these are considered as the factors in becoming the said program effective in providing high quality education. They are also the ones who empower teachers, plan, implement and monitor the result of the implementation to reach the goals of education.