• Treaty of Paris – December 10, 1898,

terminated the Spanish-American raging in

Cuba and the Philippines were ceded to

the United States by Spain for the paltry

sum of US million..

• Public School System

• Mass Education

• Elementary Education

• Secondary Education

• Higher Education

• Vocational Education

• English language was used as a medium

of instruction.

• New subject areas were introduced -

reading, writing, arithmetic, language, good

manners and right conduct, civics, hygiene

and sanitation, gardening, domestic

science, American History and Philippine

History

• American textbooks and reading materials

were the only educational materials used

• Technical/ vocational skills were

emphasized

• “Thomasite's” were the first teacher.

• Grade seven was included.

• First Philippine Commission (President

William McKinley, April 7,1900)

• Bring about an era of anew form of colonial

governance over a long-oppressed people.

• Educational Act No. 34(January 21, 1901)

• Established the Department of Public

Instruction♪ Organic Act of 1916

• Department of Public Instruction is headed

by a secretary.

• Act No. 74 – Educational Act of 1901

• ”Organic School Law” of the Philippines

• Continuance of public/private schools

• Prohibits teacher from teaching religion

• Act No. 3162 & 3196 -Munroe Survey

Commission in 1925

• Evaluate the entire educational system

they setup

• Concurrent Resolution No.17 in the

Philippine Legislature in 1925

• Public schools were designed to promote

the establishment of self-

• governing Philippine state, independent

and democratic

• Act 477 – Bureau of Education

• Act 2708 – Government inspection and

supervision of private school obligatory

• Act 2957 - Board of Textbook

• Thomasite's

• President William McKinley

• Commonwealth started in 1935 with

Manuel L.Quezon as the president.

“Preparatoryperiod “that would enable the

Filipinos to deserve independence.

• Formal Institution of the Adult Education

(called non-formal education)

• – Transfer the vocational-industrial

education program from the formal to non-

formal system

• “Filipino” language was used as the

medium of instruction

• Vocational schools were made more

similar in curriculum to Academic schools

• Celebration of National Language Week

every August

• Commonwealth Act No. 80 in 1963 – Office

of Adult Education

• Commonwealth Act No. 4 – ROTC

• Executive Order No. 17(Quezon Code of

Ethics) – Foundation stone of emerging

philosophy of the Philippine Education

system.

• 1935 Constitution

• moral character

• personal discipline

• civic conscience

• vocational efficiency

• citizenship training

• Manuel L. Quezon

• EDUCATIONALPRACTICES:

• ____________1.American textbooks and reading materials were the only educational materials used

• ____________2. English language was used as a medium of instruction.

• ____________3. “Filipino” language was used as the medium of instruction.

• ____________4. Celebration of National Language Week every August.

• Answers:• 1.true 3.true

• 2.true 4.true