The teachers/staffers who completed the training from Oct. 8 to 15 were Sepe Arriola, Kelly Pangelinan, Ramy Salcedo, Rosalinda Limjoco, Albina Paman, Emery Poquiz, Maria Catalan, Rachel Merced, Rosita Macabugao, Tisa Ann Salcedo, and Marivic Israel.
The training is a program locally developed and modeled on the Motheread story sharing curriculum and designed to provide teachers and child caregivers with the skills necessary to build children’s reading and critical thinking skills.
The training course does not only give the participants the chance to explore stories to teach literacy skills and lift out life lessons from the books they read, but it also teaches them the importance of reading as adults and as childcare providers.
Participants learn how to make story telling more interesting and livelier for their students and address classroom issues arising from read-aloud sessions. To the delight of the children, the participants are also given the chance to practice what they learned through actual read-aloud at the Children of our Homeland Library every Saturday morning.
Bryan Manabat of the Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy Program said that on Sept. 17, eleven teachers and staffers finished a similar training:
Rency Handayan, Tessie Carbonell, Levi Sobremisana, Lilibeth Villaflores, Hedeliza Posadas, Julie Lacanlale, Joanne Aquino, Tina Alverio, Clarissa Adlawan, Rosalie Habijan, and Criselda Aldan.
The training is made possible through the collaboration of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs-Child Care Development Fund Program and the NMI Council for the Humanities.
Manabat said another Teacheread training is scheduled for Nov. 5 and 12.
For more information, call 235-7319 or 287-9416, text 789-6601 or e-mail cnmimotheread@gmail.
