About The School: Baguio City National High School

1.          School Profile

Baguio City National High School (BCNHS) is a public secondary school  in Baguio City, Philippines. Its main campus is on Governor Pack Rd., and it has several annexes in the city.

1. Baguio City NHS – Fort del Pilar Annex
2. Baguio City NHS – Hillside Annex

BCNHS established at 1916. This school is located in Baguio city, Benguet district, Philippines. BCNHS Main Campus implements programs for students who have high aptitudes in certain areas for 7 until 12 grades:

1.       Science, Technology, and Engineering Program (STEP): Students who have passed the entrance examinations and have high aptitude in science, mathematics and English are given the chance to take the program.

2. Special Program in Sports (SPS)
3. Special Program in Arts (SPA)

The former name of Baguio City National High School was Mountain Province High School. Classes were once held at the Teachers’ Camp and native girls from the provinces near Baguio were housed at the BUA dormitory, known today as the Pacdal Elementary School. In 1937, the national government transferred the financial responsibility of maintaining the secondary school to the city government of Baguio. That’s why the name was changed to Baguio City National High School. This school includes Junior High School and Senior High School.

2.          Academic Support System

The academic support system of Baguio City National High School in Philippines have a big laboratory, library which have English laguange, school clinics is free for students, chapel, counselor room, hall, schoolyard and stadium for sport. BCNHS also have an extracurricular for the students such as basket ball, music group, choir, and others.

3.          Teaching system

Teaching system in Baguio City National High School in Philippines based on teacher’s curriculum guide. Teaching plan provides detailed learning resources, varied learning activities, and learning assessments. Teaching process in BCNHS is more focus on the interactive teaching between students and the teacher. Every meeting teacher should have a lesson plan which have cognitive, affective, and psychomotor for teaching the class. And It has a hour.

4.          Materials and Other Learning Sources

       The teaching process in BCNHS use materials and learning sources that provided by the teacher.  The teacher provided the instructional materials to support the learning process. The learning source can use text book and handout for the students. All the materials like powerpoint and instruction materials are prepared by the teacher to make students easier to understand the lesson. 

5.          Measurement and evaluation system

In Baguio City National High School the measurement is giving to the students in every lesson for the example ask the summarize of the topic. After they learn the lesson they have an activity that will measure them understanding about the materials use instructional materials. If the result of measurements is not satisfied, the teacher will recall again the material in the next day to make them more understand about the lesson. Every quarter BCNHS has their evaluation. They make an exam for the students in the end of the quarter. It will evaluate the students form the lesson that they have learn in every quarter. They also have remedial if the grade is not qualified with the standard. They are summative and examination week.

6 .           Curriculum

Education in Philippines uses K to 12 Curriculum. The K to 12 basic education curriculum consist of Kindergarten, Elementary for grade 1-6, Junior High School for grade 7-10, and Senior High School for grade 11-12. The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School (SHS) to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship.

Students acquire in-depth knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through continuity and consistency across all levels and subjects. Discussions on issues such as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation, and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) are included in the enhanced curriculum. Subjects are taught from the simplest concepts to more complicated concepts through grade levels in spiral progression.

Secondary education consists of four levels largely based on the American schooling system. DepEd (Department of Education) specifies a compulsory curriculum for all secondary schools, public and private. Secondary education known as Paaralang Sekundarya comprises 4 grades that have changed little since the second world war. The curriculum is prescribed for both private and state schools. Core subjects are as follows:

• Year 1 – Filipino 1, Algebra 1, Integrated Science, English 1, Phillipine History
• Year 2 – Filipino 2, Algebra 2, Biology, English 2, Asian History
• Year 3 – Filipino 3, Geometry, Chemistry, World History, Geography
• Year 4 – Filipino 4, Calculus, Trigonometry, Physics, Literature, Economics

Minor optional subjects include Health, Music, Arts, Physical Education, Home Economics and Technology. Selected schools present additional subjects.

7.          Teaching plan in major

Teaching plan in applied economy, teacher should following the curriculum guide. Teacher should have a lesson plan in every meeting with different activity and strategy.  Teacher should make a instructional materials and handout to help the students understand the topic.