Author: Kristel

In Laguna Province, Philippines, Goducate helps out-of-school youths, as well as adults who have not completed their schooling, to go through the Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System (ALS)

In March, 19 engineering students from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos campus, became our partners in teaching through the ALS. The partnership was arranged by the municipal district ALS coordinator. As part of their community work the university students taught our ALS students for the first 4 Saturdays of March. They also provided all the materials needed for the teaching.

They plan to return during to teach during the second semester of the next school year (ie, in November).

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.