Chapter 1 - Outcomes-Based Education

            CHED Memo 46.s.2012 mandates outcome-based education (OBE) standards for higher education institutions. Wherein the Department of Education introduces context standards, performance standards and competencies in the K to 12 curriculum. OBE stands for outcome-based education. It is an educational that is anchored and focused on outcomes. It is a student-entered approach to education that focuses on the intended learning outcome resulting from instruction. This is an approach in planning, delivering and assessing instruction. It is concerned with planning instruction that is focused on outcomes. OBE is an approach wherein we identify our desired outcome, we decide on strategies and methodologies to achieve those outcomes and we determine assessment measures for the achievement of outcomes. OBE has its four basic principles. First is, clarify the focus, where they want the students to know, understand, and be able to do. Second, designing down, teachers design instructions. Third, high expectations, teachers should establish high, challenging standards of performance. Lastly, expanded opportunity, teachers must strive to provide expanded opportunity for all students. For OBE to succeed it must penetrate the whole system. There are two approaches existing within Spady's outcome-based education. First is the traditional/translational one, it emphasizes student mastery of traditional subject-related academic outcome. Next is the transformational OBE, where it emphasizes a long-term, cross-curricular outcome that is related directly to student's future life roles.

                        Outcome-based Education is educational approach that merely focused on outcomes. It gives emphasis on what the students should attain or learn at the end of the course. It is a nice approach for it is a learner-centered. Outcome-based education also emphasizes to student's future role such as being productive worker or a responsible citizen. It also focuses on subject that is needed to be learned by students. It includes strategies and method that are needed to attain the desired goal. It helps students to develop the knowledge and skills that will enable them to achieve the articulated intended outcome. Good thing about this curriculum is that, it gives importance and concern to student's future life role. It don't just focus to what students must learn or attain it is also concern with the future of the students.

                        The new curriculum that is being implemented by the Department of Education which is the K to 12 focuses on skills and knowledge which the students should learn and acquaint at the end of the school year. Since that Outcome-based Education has a lot of benefits, this is applicable in imparting knowledge to students. It wasn't just use to deliver ideas and knowledge; it is also concern with how the students apply their learning. As a student it is somewhat relevant to think of something or to come-up with a method of learning wherein it can be use in school purposes and future needs. Thinking with the end in mind wherein we are looking forward right away to the things that are necessary and are needed to attain and to achieve. As a future teacher it is required to us to think of something that has a significant value to learners or to the things that they need to learn. By that, Outcome-based education is needed to be applied in schools and universities to attain good quality students that would help to change the world. I will follow the right and correct curriculum that is appropriate to my students. Working and having this approach means achieving and attaining positive outcome for learners beneficial.