ni Lolet Abania | September 6, 2022
Isang Senate bill ang inihain na layong ang mga estudyante sa kolehiyo ay maging tutors ng mga mas batang estudyante para maresolbahan ang mga tinatawag na “learning losses” na idinulot ng COVID-19 pandemic.
Sa ilalim ng Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Program Act na ipinanukala ni Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian ay nakasaad, “tertiary level students may volunteer as tutors provided that they are at or above the 75th percentile of their respective schools in the subject that they will be teaching.”
Gayundin, dapat na pumasa sila sa isang mock tutoring session na in-administer ng Department of Education (DepEd).
Sa ginanap na committee hearing ngayong Martes, sinabi ng chief education program supervisor ng DepEd-National Capital Region na si Jennifer Vivas na bilang mga senior high school students progress, aniya, “the percentage of learners who are not proficient is increasing [especially in Science, Math, and English].”
Ayon pa kay Vivas, sa ginawang Rapid Literacy Assessment, kung saan nag-survey ng 388,000 first hanggang third grade na mga estudyante sa NCR, lumabas na 49,000 learners ay hindi makapagbasa.
“Through the ARAL Program, the culture of tutoring, collaboration ay mas nating mapapaigting... Ang bago po dito is using, tapping our college learners,” pahayag ni Vivas.
“Hindi po siya nag-go against in the existing remediation. It is actually strengthening, reinforcing pa,” dagdag nito.
Iminungkahi naman ni Dr. Marilyn Balagtas, chairman at president ng Philippine Educational Measurement and Evaluation Association (PEMEA) na isama bilang mga potensyal na volunteer tutors ang lahat ng tertiary students, na kasing bata pa ng mga freshmen.
Para naman kay UNICEF Education Specialist Nicholas Tenazas, ang mga guro ay hindi na dapat gawing mga tutors dahil sila aniya ay masasabing mga “overworked” na.
“In terms of possible tutors, first point would be to maybe not include the current teacher as the tutor. For 2 reasons: number 1, they are already overworked. But number 2, they are the same people that are teaching the same students,” paliwanag ni Tenazas.
“So if there are some issues in the classroom that might be leading to poor learning, we might be perpetuating this, we might just be repeating this in the tutoring session,” sabi pa nito.
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