TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PNA) – The province is in dire need of P7.1 million to retrain some 8,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools whose students barely passed regional and national tests.
The teachers will have to undergo a re-training program if they are to improve their performance in the classroom and catch up with schoolteachers in other provinces.
Based on an initial assessment and analysis of the academic standing of public schools in Bohol, Provincial Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Lorna Rances found out that poor classroom performance was particularly notable in the province’s second and third districts.
“The low test results indicated a need to upgrade and enhance the teaching competencies of our teachers by refocusing on the basic principles of learning, introducing research-based teaching strategies and building the school, that is, the teachers, school heads and staff, as an effective working team,†she said.
As a response, the Provincial School Board (PSB), through its Chair, Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado, has negotiated with municipal school boards, through the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP)-Bohol chapter president, Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas, for a 70 percent-30 percent sharing scheme in the expenses.
Provincial Treasurer Eustaquio Socorin assured that the provincial government has savings amounting to P5.63 million in excess of last year’s collection, surplus, interest earned from bank deposits bank and unappropriated balance.
Aumentado requested Socorin to make his Provincial Development Initiative fund available in case some municipalities are delayed in producing counterpart funds.
Rances reported to the Governor that the two-day teacher re-training program costs P900 per participant, including registration, or a total of P7.28 million for all the 8,089 participants comprising 5,535 elementary school teachers, 2,065 high school teachers, 361 elementary school principals, 80 high school principals and 48 district supervisors.
The training will focus on critical subjects such as Science, Mathematics and English, she added.
Rances finds the training “very relevant and appropriate to respond to the needs of our teachers.â€
Since most of the low-performing schools are in the second district, teachers assigned there will be the first to undergo the training starting April 5.
They will be divided into groups of about 150 so that there will be 19 batches to be trained in April from among the 2,894 teachers of the second district.
The 3,011 teachers in Bohol’s third district will follow on March 3 to June 5 where there will be 20 batches while the 2,061 teachers in the first district, divided into 13 groups, will have their turn from June 14 to July 1.
Consulting firm, Quantum Education and Management Consulting calls the training, “Building Learning Teams for Successful Schools†(BLESS), which is a team-based approach for improving school performance.
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