Community Learning Hubs are learning facilities set up by the Office of the Vice President Leni Robredo to support students in their studies especially because learners have now shifted from traditional to distance learning due to the pandemic. Last October 2020, The Vice President herself lead the opening of the Community Learning Hub in Pasig. They also have other facilities set up in Caloocan City, Rizal, Negros Occidental, Lucena City, and Albay.
Community Learning Hubs are part of the BAYANIHAN e-SKWELA, that the OVP resourced to extend various ways to support students, parents, and teachers amid the shift to distance learning. Through this, a lot of students get free access to computers, gadgets, equipment, and the internet, as well as tutors.
What’s more surprising is that the tutors of these hubs are mostly volunteer citizens that have decided to dedicate their time to offer free tutorials to learners. The volunteer-tutors are students, teachers, and local government officials. That’s why to help these kind-hearted volunteers into further developing their teaching skills, Pasig and Taytay Community Learning Hub made partnership with Chalkboard to render the need for technical assistance in terms of teaching and learning.
The project entitled “PANATANG MAKATUTOR: SA ISIP, SA SALITA AT SA GAWA” was held last February 20, 2021 in the City Hall of Pasig. Volunteer-tutors from Pasig and Taytay were present in the training to make them more aware of the different strategies they can use for their tutorial sessions. We invited our very own Chalkboard tutors to lead the training and to share their knowledge to the group:
Sir Victor Rebosada, LPT, discussed The Impact of Teachers’ Volunteerism,
Ma’am Janina Del Rosario, LPT, talked about Effective Tutoring Style in Distance and Face to Face Learning,
While Ma’am Wileth Jane Flores, LPT, assisted by Ma’am Melissa Inte supervised the Workshop in Conducting Remediation Reading Classes.
Every lecture has been very beneficial to our volunteer-tutors as they were able to learn new and fresh teaching methods to their learners. Chalkboard had set numerous objectives for this training such as recognizing and identifying the different learning styles of students, introducing effective tutoring styles in conducting face to face and online tutoring sessions, and lectures mainly focusing on reading.
According to the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) found out that over 80 percent of Filipino students around the age of 15 did not reach the minimum level of proficiency in reading. This is very saddening that’s why there really is a need to be meticulous and critical when it comes to our students’ literacy. Although most can read, many do not know how to process or understand what the text they are reading.
That’s why during the PISARA Project, Chalkboard and the Pasig Community Learning Hub saw the need to emphasize on our volunteer-tutors how important it is to not just teach students how to read, but to also encourage them to really comprehend on what they are reading.
And since the Pasig City Hall is governed by no other than Mayor Vico Sotto, we, the Chalkboard Team did not miss our chance to personally meet the famous mayor. Mayor Vico was kind enough to spare us some of his time despite his busy schedule and listen and learn more about Chalkboard and its advocacy. He expressed his gratitude towards our team and also gave some of his thoughts about how important quality education is to our youth.
This was such a nice experience for both the volunteer-tutors and to us, Chalkboard. We know that by sharing what little we have; we are able to give so much to the community of Pasig and Taytay. After all, the main hope of a nation indeed lies in the proper education of its youth.
