DepEd San Jose District to implement 'Synerhiya'
San Jose, Antique – The San Jose School District here has come up with a plan to implement “Synerhiya" a special training program for teachers in order to address the problem of schools with scores below 50 percent in the national Achievement Test (NAT).
Asst. Schools Division Superintendent Victor de Gracia explained this special training program will be implemented by the local school board for mentors handling English and Mathematics subjects for Grades I to III effective next school year.
This intervention doesn't entail additional budgetary allocation, for the expenses would be shouldered by the division through the regular budget, de Gracia said.
The Department of Education (DepEd) in a report said they ranged a host of intervention programs to upgrade English instruction in elementary and high school with special focus on schools which registered in the low mastery level in the 2007 NAT.
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus said that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has instructed DepEd to zero in on schools which tested low in mastery in 2007 NAT. A student is considered in the low mastery level if the mean percentage score (MPS) is between 15 to 34 in the 100-item test per subject.
The NAT which measures what the students in Grade 3 and second year high school know, understand and can do, covers Mathematics, English, Science, Filipino and HEKASI, the report said.
In the elementary division, DepEd is eyeing to upgrade the performance of 1,899 schools which are also at low mastery levels and achieve average mastery in 2008 NAT. (EAbasquez/PIA)