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 weekly magazine in the local dialect). My father was always busy with his work, and my mother, with the household chores. Both didn’t find time …
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 took his early schooling at Aringay, La Union and finished his secondary education at Ilocos High School, Vigan. A student in painting and drawing at …
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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 higher order thinking and reasoning tactics used by successful readers – applying prior knowledge, making inferences (conclusions or deductions), and analyzing evidence. Corrective reading programs …
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 more than an endless routine of delivering lectures, giving tests, and checking papers. Those who stay in the teaching profession get more out of the …
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 you read? The answers to these questions are important because researches show that “the successful reader is the child who was read to at a …
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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 they want to learn within the limits of the classroom. Faced with these challenges and technological advancement in education, we can not help but shift …
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 common Filipino failing. Every year thousands of trees are planted all over the Philippines, many sponsored by well-meaning public officials and organizations with great publicity, …
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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 must be everybody’s concern. It outlines a series of responsibilities for four groups: parents, schools, students and communities. Parents are urged to teach standards through …
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 as a panacea or universal remedy for the ills of Philippine education. It is felt in some quarters that if we put our children in …
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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 at the expenses of those who are not within the good graces of their school administrators. It is this kind of patronage that breeds corruption, …
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