Angara welcomes new law allowing DepEd teaching flexibility
Education Secretary Sonny Angara has welcomed a new law that removes the 'spiral progression' requirement from the K-12 curriculum, allowing for more flexible, mastery-based teaching methods. The law also mandates periodic curriculum reviews to improve student outcomes.
Why it matters
This policy shift marks a major change in Philippine educational strategy, aiming to address learning gaps by prioritizing foundational mastery over the previous spiral curriculum model.
MANILA, Philippines - Education Secretary Sonny Angara welcomed Republic Act 12322, which updates a provision of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 or RA 10533, saying the new law will allow the Department of Education (DepEd) to maintain instructional approaches that are grounded in classroom evidence and field experience.
Under RA 10533, which institutionalized the country's K to 12 basic education program, concepts in subjects like Science and Mathematics were designed to be revisited across grade levels with increasing complexity.
The new measure, which lapsed into law on Aug. 2, amends Section 5, paragraph (g) of RA 10533 by removing the statutory reference to "spiral progression" and provides opportunities for new pedagogical approaches or strategies in teaching and learning.
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