Angat Buhay leads 3-day Literacy Hub Training to 12 Pilot Sites in PH

BY KARREN JAY ASGAR

The Angat Buhay Foundation with its Chairperson, Atty. Leni Robredo held 3-day learning sessions for its 12 pilot sites across the country at the Hive Hotel located in Quezon City and was held last August 20-22.

The said training was attended by various volunteers from different areas of the previous program of Angat Buhay Community Learning Hub that will be transitioning into 12 literacy hubs and one numeracy hub by CLH-Pasig. By this time, the main purpose of these literacy hubs is to help and teach non-reader kids from grades one to three to learn and love reading at a young age.

“Binubuhay ng bayanihan ang ating Community Learning Hubs. Lubos ang ating pasasalamat sa ating volunteers, sa mga lokal na pamahalaan at mga barangay, at sa iba pang partners na sinisigurong may espasyo sa mga komunidad para sa pagkatuto ng ating mga mag-aaral”, Atty. Leni Robredo’s message during the MOA signing last August 21, 2022 at the Hive Hotel.

The three-day training sessions were spearheaded by some of the University of the Philippines-Diliman professors. They were Dr. Dina Ocampo, former DepEd Undersecretary, Teacher Yvette Alcazar, Teacher Julie Weygan-Aparato, Teacher Maita Salvador, Teacher Hazelle Preclaro-Ongtengco, Teacher Grace, and etc.

“Kung minsan, buhay ang nakikialam sa pag-aaral ng bata. Sana sa Learning Hub natin, nakangiti ang mga bata. Kailangan nating pagaanin ang pagtuturo sa mga bata”, Dr. Ocampo said during her talk about the Literacy Framework for Angat Buha Community Learning Hubs.

Raffy Magno, Angat Buhay Executive Director said that the training was Angat Buhay’s contribution to address the gaps in our education system, especially the learning loss that was brought about and worsened by the pandemic.

“Our young Filipinos deserve better. Edukasyon ang susi sa pag-unlad kaya naman dapat walang maiiwan”, he added.

The training was conceptualized through discussions of important and fundamental topics on how Literacy Hub must undergo pre-assessment and assessment sessions together with the volunteers and beneficiaries. Some of the said discussions are Literacy Learning in the Context of Child Development, Reflection on Individual Hubs, Processing and Gallery Walk, The Story of Iclip, Teaching Decoding using the Marungko Approach, Developing Comprehension through storytelling, workshop on Developing Comprehension, Assessment, and the MOA signing.

As Angat Buhay’s literacy and numeracy centers, the Community Learning Hubs will now focus more intently on closing the education gap. It will concentrate on instructing students of various abilities in reading and mathematics.

“In the new chapter of Angat Buhay, we continue to carry our Community Learning Hub initiative—this time to focus on ensuring that our learners are able to read and comprehend numbers accordingly. We are happy to work with our 12 pilot sites from different parts of the Philippines to realize this goal. This weekend, we formalized our partnerships with them and facilitated their onboarding, where they learned from our partner experts, including those from the University of the Philippines College of Education and Chalkboard PH,” said Robredo. C