DepEd reminds teachers to refrain buying ready-made lesson plans and modules online, use references provided by DepEd instead.
Department of Education received several reports about online selling of Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) and some teachers are patronizing it. DepEd reminds everyone that such MELCs are not for sale and they strongly condemn this kind of act which takes advantage of the current crisis we are in.
Schools are advised not to create a new list of learning competencies in every learning area since everything will be provided and will be available through the MELCs. However, schools are encouraged to enhance and contextualize MELCs.
Starting June 1, teachers are tasked to prepare weekly Learning Activity Sheets, participate in capacity building activities, assist in orienting parents, and prepare learners for the formal start of classes.
To avoid confusion and misinformation, DepEd advised everyone to wait for official announcements and statements on their end.
DepEd reiterates and condemns the selling scheme of MELCs online.
Read DM No. 89, s. 2020 | Clarifications on the Use of the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) and Other Related Issues for your guidance and reference:
1. Pursuant to Unnumbered Memorandum from the Office of the Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction issued on May 6, 2020, titled Clarifications on the Use of the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) and Other Related Issues, this Office directs all schools to report any activity related to the selling of MELCs to DepEd OUCI through its email at [email protected].
2. The MELCs were provided by DepEd as the primary reference for all Schools, Schools Division Offices (SD0s), and Regional Offices (R0s) in determining and implementing learning delivery approaches that are suited to the local context and diversity of learners while adapting to the challenges posed by COVID-19. Schools are hereby instructed to refer to the MELCs in creating learning activity sheets, self-learning modules, and other instructional materials. Moreover, schools are enjoined to adhere to the content of the MELCs and refrain from creating a new list of learning competencies for different learning areas.
3. Relatively, this Office hereby advises all teachers to refrain from buying ready-made lesson plans, periodical examinations, summative tests, modules, and the like. This Office through the Curriculum Implementation Division (CID) is trying its best to provide all those materials for the teachers.
4. Attached herewith is a copy of Unnumbered Memorandum from the Office of the Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction for your perusal.
5. Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Memorandum is directed.
