STRENGTHENING LEARNERS’ LITERACY SKILLS

MARIA LYN P. NONAN

The Department of Education (DepEd) has thanked partners who believe in the efforts of the Department to strengthen the capacity of teachers in improving their numeracy and literacy teaching skills.

One of these partners is the US Embassy – Regional English Language Office (RELO) which has been conducting webinars on Integrated Language Learning in Early Childhood: Focus on Literacy and Numeracy.

The recent webinar was held during the first quarter of the year, and was designed to provide teachers and school heads with an overview of Content Integrated Language Learning, Early Literacy, and Bilingual Education.

Participants also learned specific strategies and tasks which can be implemented in the classroom and community to improve students’ literacy skills.

Different topics on teaching literacy and numeracy were tackled throughout the series including content and attitude goals in the classroom, developing literacy skills, and activities and assessment in teaching in English, among others.

Each session ran for 2 hours in a lecture-demo approach to include the question and answer and completion of activities.

The program also aimed to equip the teachers and school heads with necessary skills to apply innovative strategies and techniques to developmentally appropriate literacy lessons which will motivate K-3 students and develop their skills.

Through the webinar, participants were expected to contribute and support the school community and all stakeholders involved in the education of young learners.

The course also sought to provide understanding of the underlying pedagogy of Content Integrated Language Learning, Early Literacy, and Bilingual Education for the development of literacy lessons.

The author is Teacher

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III at Marcelo H. Del Pilar National High School