By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff Reporter
Laoag
City—Early-grade teachers in the entire
province of Ilocos Norte are now ready for the next challenge of the K-to-12
curriculum following three-day training on early grade reading program meant to
strengthen the language and literacy level of Grades 1 and 2 pupils here.
The program, dubbed “Basa
Pilipinas”, aims to improve the reading skills for at least one million early
grade students in Filipino, English and selected mother tongues such as
Ilokano.
In Region 1, the provinces of
Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and La Union were identified as target areas of the
project through “improved reading instruction, enhanced assessment capability,
and increased availability of quality instructional materials and reading books
in the classroom.”
Dr. Joel Lopez, acting
schools division superintendent of Ilocos Norte said the training for
multi-grade teachers in Ilocos Norte were conducted on May 26-28 in Laoag City
with master trainers who were earlier trained from various divisions since last
year.
Ilocos Norte’s education
department hopes that through Basa Pilipinas, this will improve the reading
skills of early-grade pupils in Filipino, English and Ilokano.
Backing the Department of
Education’s Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE),
Basa Pilipinas, a joint program of the DepEd and funded by the USAID, produces
textbooks and reading materials in the selected mother tongues such as Ilokano,
Sugbuanong Binisaya and Maguindanaon, Filipino and English.
The project commenced in
January 2013 and it will end until 2016.
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