Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skill through education and experience. Our ability to learn and our intellectual capacity are intangibles.
However, these intangibles are a person’s greatest assets because everything one does reinvents and updates his knowledge allows him to grow; learning is a prerequisite to growth.
In line with the goals of the global education for all, the Department of Education through the Bureau of Elementary Education, and the Bureau of Secondary Education conducted the Alternative Delivery Mode Summer Program dubbed as Reaching the Unreached through Summer Program.
This activity aims to provide more inclusive approaches and wider strategies to address access and quality of education in elementary and secondary levels. This is free for all students enrolled in this program.
The two bureaus adhering to the principles of an inclusive, learning-friendly environment require all schools to register all children who have not been to school regardless of gender, physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or other characteristics.
The out-of-school-youth, adults, and high school dropouts were also accommodated in the ADM Summer Program.
Enrolled learners are required to take the School Readiness Assessment, and the Independent Learning Readiness Assessment, the results of which is the basis for placing the learners in the appropriate learning mode and which will then be classified three areas: 1) Independent Learners shall automatically be home-schooled with mutually-agreed face-to- face schedules, e.g. one a week; 2) Instructional Learners shall require more frequent face-to-face schedules, e.g. twice a week to bridge the assessed weaknesses of the learner; 3) Frustration/Beginning Learners shall require individualized teaching-learning process, thus, the learner shall have to attend ADM classes everyday. At the end of the session, all qualified learners take the Philippine Education Placement Test, and then will be mainstreamed into the appropriate grade/year level.
Cyraluna Velasco Rival
Tanjay National High School
Opao, Tanjay City
