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Project q-Learn: School-Based Quality Learning
Cells
Project
q-Learn (School-Based Quality Learning
Cells) addresses a critical concern of the Third
Elementary Education Project (TEEP) in terms of
enabling inputs towards developing more effective
schools: adequate learning packages and other
materials for the professional development of
teachers, school managers and educational managers
to enrich their competencies in managing the school
system, from the management level to the classroom
level. Project q-Learn is funded
under the Third Elementary Education Project (TEEP)
School Improvement and Innovation Facility (SIIF)
National Window.
Objectives
The
Project aims to enhance the competencies of teachers
and school administrators on the use of professional
self-learnign packages designed to enable them
to carry out school-based, self-propelled learning
activities at their own pace and in their own
styles. It is envisioned that these competencies
shall consequently help improve student achievement
in the different learning areas on the Basic Education
Curriculum (BEC).
The
specific objectives of Project q-Learn
are to:
identify context-specific learning needs of
elementary school teachers and school heads,
particularly along school-based management,
and technical subject matter and content strands
for the learning areas of the BEC,
formulate
a TEEP/LAC (Learning Action Cells) Teacher In-Service
Training Competency Framework based on the identified
context-specific learning needs of elementary
scool teachers and school heads,
develop
multimedia self-learning materials based on
the identified learning needs of teachers and
school heads,
train
central, and field level staff of the basic
education operating units of DepEd on development
of self-learning packages and on the utilization
of these packages,
manage
in-service training of teachers and school heads
of selected DepEd schools divisions for the
enhancement of their competencies in delivering
instructions on the differen subject matter
content points of the BEC as well as development
of learning resources for students in the Schools
Divisions of Batanes and five schools divisions
of Region VI, and
evaluate
the effectiveness of the self-learnign packages
in the teaching-learning processes,
provide
technical assistance to DepEd its efforts towards
sustainability and institutionalization of q-Learn
by assisting the concerned offices in making
the necessary negotiations and arrange,ents
on networking and linkage development.
Project
Components
The Project consists
of the following components:
Conduct of a DACUM workshop to develop
the TEEP/LAC teacher in-service training competency
framework, and identify context-specific professional
development learning needs of elementary school
teachers and school heads
Development
of multimedia self-learning packages--print
learning materials and supplemented by audio
and video materials--for the use of teachers
abd school administrators in their SLAC sessions
In-service
training which has two sub-components:
a.
training on the developmeny of self-learning
modules
b. training on the utilization of self-learning
modules.
Evaluation
of the self-learning modules in print and non-print
forms.
Approach
and Methodology The
over-all methodology to be employed involves a
participatory process which calls for total involvement
of the basic education sector from the national,
regional, division, district and school levels.
Necessarily, the q-Learn methodology
focuses on addressing the teacher and school head
concerns in conduction LAC activities for professional,
as well as personal development and optimum contribution
to the developmeny of basic education at the school
level.
Target
Clients Project
q-Learn has the same target reach as
the TEEP. These include eleven (11) regions, twenty-three
(23) schools divisions, four hundred forty-three
(443) school districts and eight thousdand six
hundred sixty-nine (8,669) elementary schools.
The Project would focus on the learning action
cells (LAC) at the school, district, division
and regional levels. Primary attention of q-Learn
would be the provision of training and learning
packages to TEEP schools.
Project
Management
The
Department of Education - Bureau of Elementary
Education, and TEEP Project Office
The
SEAMEO Regional Centre for Educational Innovation
and Technology (SEAMEO INNOTECH) as the service
provider.
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