Around 60 Grade 4 teachers and academic coordinators from the BEAM pilot madaris across Regions XI, XII and the ARMM gathered on May 18 to 24, 2009 in Davao City, for a week-long training on student assessment.
This training program the result of the Region-wide Assessment of Math, Science and English (RAMSE) conducted among Grade 4 students in the pilot madaris for the first time. While data revealed a higher by average in the baseline performance (based on the anchored items) compared with the public schools in 2004, it also revealed low mastery on the three subjects tested. Other results which have direct implication on assessment includes: the madrasah students showed low mastery in answering multiple choice questions, closed constructed and open ended questions; and on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Students also showed low English mastery in retrieving and interpreting information and no mastery in reflecting. In Math, students showed low mastery of facts and procedures, solving routine problems and in reasoning with no mastery in using concepts. Students showed low mastery in factual knowledge and conceptual understanding in Science questions with no mastery in reasoning and analysis.
The
Department of Education (DepEd) Central Office through the Office of the
Undersecretary for Muslim Affairs and the BEAM Project conducted a national
Training of Trainers (ToT) for the enriched program orientation of the Arabic
Language and Islamic Values Education (ALIVE) Program from the 14th
to the 17th of April 2009 in Davao City.
This ToT was attended by more than 80 program implementers and trainers nationwide.
In
her welcome remarks, DepEd XI Regional Director Susan Teresa B. Estigoy
explained that the program is “an opportunity for Filipinos of Islamic
backgrounds, a medium for the realization of their aspirations for relevant
education, where program implementers of diverse cultural and religious
backgrounds have the opportunity to learn about their Muslim fellows – their
culture and their language.”
BEAM Project recently
conducted a training for Grade 1 Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education
(ALIVE) teachers from selected schools in Davao City (Region XI) and Cotabato
City (Region XII) on April 6-11, 2009 in Davao City.
The training known
as the “Harf-based Mastery” (HBM)
builds on and applies the principles of phonetics, phonemics and alphabetic
awareness of the Arabic Language. “Harf” is the Arabic word for “letter.” The
training was conducted to prepare Grade 1 ALIVE teachers for the piloting of
the HBM this coming school year 2009-2010; to immerse them with the research-based
concepts and scientific principles of emergent reading instruction; to enhance
and enrich the participants’ background knowledge in the Arabic language’s
phonemics, phonetics and alphabet; and to familiarize the participants with the
HBM conceptual framework and methodology as a teaching–learning intervention
strategy contextualized for non-readers, slow readers or students-at-risk in
reading and writing in Arabic.
Around 60 Grade 4 teachers and academic coordinators from the BEAM pilot madaris across Regions XI, XII and the ARMM gathered on May 18 to 24, 2009 in Davao City, for a week-long training on student assessment.
The
Department of Education (DepEd) Central Office through the Office of the
Undersecretary for Muslim Affairs and the BEAM Project conducted a national
Training of Trainers (ToT) for the enriched program orientation of the Arabic
Language and Islamic Values Education (ALIVE) Program from the 14th
to the 17th of April 2009 in Davao City.
This ToT was attended by more than 80 program implementers and trainers nationwide.
