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To improve the use of English language as a medium of instruction
among high school teachers, the Department of Education on Wednesday
revealed they have finished training 2,168 teachers on the use of
lesson guides in teaching English.
In a statement, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus
said the master teachers and senior English teachers took the
program as part of the Education department’s continuing thrust to
improve English instruction in public schools.
“This is part of our serious push to equip our
teachers with needed skills to be more effective in teaching
English. These teachers will serve as mentors and are expected to
cascade the lessons they learned in their respective schools,”
said Lapus.
Lapus also revealed the teachers were picked in
accordance to their school’s performance in the recent National
Achievement Test.
This orientation-workshop is part of the
department’s “Project: Turning Around Low Performance in
English,” which seeks to reverse the low performance in English of
1,898 elementary and 264 high schools nationwide.
Students in these schools got a Mean Percentage
Score of 34 percent and below in the 2007 national exams, which
measures what the students understand and can do at their level and
covers mathematics, English, science, Filipino and Hekasi
(geography, history and civics).
The 2007 national exams results showed marked
improvements in the average in English (12.45 percent) while
mathematics and science registered 12.3 percent and 10.3 percent
improvements, respectively.
Earlier, President Gloria Arroyo showed concern
for the decline in the use of English language instruction in public
schools and earmarked P500 million for teacher training.
-- James Konstantin Galvez
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