Dear Professor Olga,
Greetings of Peace!
When Ms. Mitchel M. Villaceran shared to us about the Educational System of Japan, I learned Japan government adopted the US model for their educational system and they adopted also the France model for centralized administration system and the school district system. In the year 1990 the government of Japan decided to abolish the school fees for elementary education and a system of automatic progression was adopted. They applied the 6-3-3-4 educational pattern, Grades 1 to 6 for elementary education with 4 science subjects namely; biology, chemistry, physics, and geology. As what I have observed their elementary pupils are very much advance in terms of scientific theories and actual hands on of the technological activities not like in the Philippines that the normal curriculum for elementary has less subject taught in science even Grades 1 and 2 in our country has no science subject. For their high school education, they offer 3 years for Junior High School, and 3 years for Senior High School.
From the insights I gained about the educational system of Japan, I realized that their curriculum is focused on science and technology that is why their learners are much advance in terms of scientific theories and concepts. If we compare the curriculum of our country to that of Japan all I can say is we are very far behind their system.
Therefore, as a school administrator we have to encourage our teachers and pupils to engage in and adopt the new trend and the use of technology by conducting research on the net in order to cope up with the advance technology globally.
* Joel L. Jayme
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