The Department of Education (DepEd) backed House Resolution 1805, urging the agency to suspend the regular academic program for eight to 12 weeks to implement an effective learning recovery program that ensures learners attain functional literacy and numeracy.
In Wednesday’s hearing conducted by the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture chaired by Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo, Education Undersecretary for Curriculum and Teaching Gina Gonong said upon consultation with internal stakeholders, DepEd submitted a proposal to the committee following the ABC Plus Model of Literacy and Numeracy Program for the eight-week learning recovery program.
She said the DepEd has prepared a timeline of activities to implement the eight-week learning recovery program.
“The timeline is part of the position paper that we submitted to the committee. So this 2024, we’ll continue consulting with stakeholders. We’ve promised teacher groups that we’ll go back to them when we’ll do the specific designs, (and) trainings for the program. We are also currently doing an inventory and mapping of learning resources on top of the ABC Plus learning resources,” Gonong told legislators.
Meanwhile, they have also drawn up a wish list for implementing the eight-week learning recovery program, which includes its budget.
“We are currently doing focus group discussions in schools so that we can get the sentiments, the inputs of the field so we can refine the policy. When we roll it out, it will be the policy that has been vetted by the field,” Gonong said.
In response to the ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro’s question, Gonong said DepEd will test all Grades 1 to 3 students using the Comprehensive Reading Literacy Assessment (CRLA) Tool and the Rapid Assessment Tool for Numeracy.
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