DepEd to include value of savings into curriculum

The Department of Education will integrate savings consciousness into the basic education curriculum with the use of teachers' guides for students to realize the value of savings and develop in them awareness on the deposit insurance system, this was learned from DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus.

The DepEd, through the Bureau of Secondary Education in partnership with the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation, has developed these teachers' guides that would give public high school students lessons on how bank savings strengthen the country's economy. Also, lessons on intellectual property rights will be integrated into the curriculum to instill the protection of such.

Already, the DepEd tapped the National Book Development Board for a proposal on the integration of the topics into the economics subjects in high school expected to encourage creativity, entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Further, the NBDB proposal carried a suggestion to require all publishers of economics textbooks the inclusion of intellectual property rights and law concepts in their books.

Dennis Gonzalez, NBDB chairman and DepEd consultant for a revised basic education curriculum, in an interview said that the proposal has already been submitted to the DepEd and that it is expected that lessons on intellectual property rights will be integrated into subjects in economics in the next schoolyear. - Jasmin R. Uy