Abegael Benedicto is a teacher at one of the Goducate Literacy Centers in Laguna, and also an Instructional Manager for the Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System. Last year she represented Goducate Literacy Centers at a meeting of all the stakeholders of the Department of Education in our municipality and received the Certificate of Recognition for Goducate to be a Department of Education partner in providing education.
Last month, the principal of Tranca Elementary School invited Abegael to help teach grade 1 students at the school. The school then recommended the Municipal Government to make her a member of the school’s teaching staff. Later she was invited to become the teacher of the school’s kindergarten. The recognition of Goducate Literacy Centers by the Department of Education means that students from our literacy centers will be eligible to enter government schools when they finish their kindergarten program. In the newly introduced K-12 system of education, which lengthens the period of schooling from 10 year to 13 years, Department of Education schools will accept only those students who have undergone kindergarten education in a center accredited by the Department of Education.
