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GUIDING OUR TEACHERS: A Briefer on the Use of the Special Program in the Arts ( SPA) MELCs

About the Process

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent shortened academic year, the Department of Education, through the Bureau of Curriculum Development-
Special Curricular Programs Division, has produced a list of the most essential learning competencies (MELCs). MELCs was produced to ensure that grade level
standards, along with its content and performance standards are still attained despite the changes in learning delivery modes brought by the COVID-19
pandemic.

In the process of identifying the MELCs, the ENDURANCE criterion was used as the sole determiner. Endurance is defined as the learning competency that
remains with learners long after a test is completed (Reeves, 2002) or is useful beyond a single test or unit of study (Many and Horrell, 2014) which is
applicable to real-life situations e.g. social participation and integration.
Guided by the requirement that a learning competency (LC) be useful in lifelong learning, the group of specialists in-charge of the Special Program in the Arts
curriculum recognizes the role of the program in developing excellent young artists in any field of arts towards the promotion of Filipino culture and heritage
preservation. The identified MELCs are those that can be learned in any mode of delivery, either face-to-face, online or homebased learning.

Example:
SPA-Dance G7 Q1: The learner identifies the nature and characteristics of each dance form/genre

The example above provides students with knowledge of content specific words learned from the Physical Education component of MAPEH. MELCs are also
significantly less than the original number of LCs in the curriculum because of certain factors. First, some LCs may be subsumed by other competencies.

Example:
SPA-Dance (G7 Q1): Differentiates dance forms/genre
SPA-Dance (G7 Q1): Identifies the nature and characteristics of each dance form/genre

The second factor considered in determining the MELCs is the LCs ability to be administered in different learning modalities especially during the pandemic.
Consider the example below:

Example:
SPA-Visual Arts (G7 Q4): Converts photographs into computer graphics or cartoons