Are you an Effective Teacher?
Teachers are the most important factor in the pupil’s environment. The absence of teachers makes other elements in education futile. It is the teacher who stimulates, guides, leads and directs …
Teaching & Education
What You Need to Know About Outdoor Mathematics
Oftentimes teachers in content subjects like Mathematics, are confined within the four walls of their classrooms where they deliver their lectures, conduct their discourses and illustrate their demonstration of mathematical …
Reading Aloud: Tips for Parents and Teachers
As far as I can remember the only reading materials we had at home when I was five years old were the Holy Bible, the Prayer Book, and Waraynon (a …
Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Elpidio Quirino
Early life and career Second President of the Third Philippine Republic, Elpidio Quirino was born on November 18, 1890 in Vigan, Ilocos Sur to Mariano Quirino and Gregoria Mendoza. He …
Corrective Reading in the Secondary Schools
Corrective Reading is used for those students who read without understanding. Corrective reading programs develop vocabulary, information, and comprehension strategies needed for academic success. Corrective reading helps underachieving readers develop …
10 Must Know Tips for New Teachers
Teaching may be a trying, often unrewarding task especially during the initial years. After going through the excitement and anxiety of the first months of school, teaching may become little …
Promoting the Reading Habit via Children’s Literature
Can you still remember how you first learned to read? Who was your first teacher? Who influenced you to choose reading as your hobby? What was the first book that …
How Do Our Students Learn?
Nowadays, with the advent of computer aid instruction (CAI), computer access programs, distance learning and modular instructions, it becomes increasingly apparent that our students can no longer be taught all …
Street Children and Planting Trees in the Philippines
The phenomenal and alarming increase in the number of street children in the Metro Manila area and recently in highly urbanized areas and the planting trees seem to share a …
Insights on Drug Abuse at Schools
Drug abuse at schools, like a gigantic malevolent octopus, has gained a stranglehold on thousands of addicts and wrought havoc in their lives and those of their families. Drug abuse …
Quality of Education in the Philippines Through Educational Technology
Getting Our Priorities Right on Computers In our desire to improve the quality of Education in the Philippines, our top priority for reform and change, we sometimes look on computers …
Politics of Patronage in the Philippine Educational System
Politics of patronage is not only practiced by politicians in the Philippine educational system. School administrators practice it also. It comes in the form of giving favors to favored employees …