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Planning Workshop on Life Skills Learning through Nonformal Education in the Philippines

A GROUP OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS from the Rizal Province worked on the design, implementation scheme and monitoring plan for a pilot project on life skills learning through non-formal education. The teachers also reviewed existing NFE modules, including facilitators’ guides, to look at life skills and competencies contained in said learning materials.

The pilot project on life skills learning through NFE is being implemented in two sites in the Rizal Province—Pililla and Antipolo, through the support of UNESCO, the Department of Education - Bureau of Nonformal Education (DepEd-BNFE), and SEAMEO INNOTECH.

Each locality involved in the project has one teacher-facilitator assigned for each type of learner, referring to the basic literacy learners, the A&E elementary learners, and the A&E high school learners. The pilot project will last for three months, starting in August 2004 and ending in October 2004. Immediately following is a project monitoring and monitoring of life skills learned and developed during the three-month period. Close to a hundred learners is expected to benefit from this project, which is making use of NFE modules.

Prior to this, the modules were reviewed and modified by the teachers of Rizal Province during a planning workshop held at SEAMEO INNOTECH in July 2004. Resource persons and BNFE officials were on hand to guide the teachers in the review process, making sure that identified life skills were integrated.

The weeklong review process looked at existing NFE modules based on relevance to the needs of the community, the feasibility of integrating life skills, its adaptability to the learners’ needs, and the capability of the facilitator.

The teachers were divided into three groups such that one group worked on basic literacy, another on accreditation and equivalency (A&E) program for elementary level, and the third group on A&E for secondary level. A total of 60 modules—29 basic literacy, 21 for elementary level, and 30 for secondary level—were examined and modified.

The teachers who participated in the planning workshop included Eugenia Asuncion, Beata Gonzales, Mary Ann Rubio, and Epifania Tibay (Pililla Elementary School); Marcela De Villa and Soledad Tejada (Pililla Elementary School-Unit 1); Augusto Banda and Roger Bodegon (Pililla National High School); Princesita Chimlangco and Mercelita Paz (Quisao Elementary School); Marlene Omaña (Quisao National High School); Ferdinand Marquez (Antipolo National High School); and Concepcion Nito (Malaya National High School).

Among the resource persons tapped to lend their expertise in content evaluation were former INNOTECH director, Dr. Minda C. Sutaria, consultant for A&E secondary level; Dr. Juanita S. Guerrero, consultant for the A&E elementary level; Ms. Lourdes A. Arellana, consultant for basic literacy; and Dr. Edith A. Doblada, Schools Division Superintendent of Rizal.

 

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