New Education Directive for Teacher in lower grades in the Philippines
By toyota4k
@toyota4k (1208)
Philippines
September 4, 2012 3:45am CST
Gone are the days when the Filipino classroom was an English speaking institution.
Teachers especially from Daycare, Kindergarten and Grade 1 to 3 are now provided with new guidelines on teaching using the native tongue. In the Philippines where over 150 dialects are spoken, these teachers have to be assigned home based where they speak the local dialect. some have complained translating English to the dialect is not easy. It might not be easy making adjustment the teaching materials must be community and mother tongue based. Wow. How efficient could the children blog and post their participation on mylot in English soon?
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3 responses
@ddaguno (3107)
• Philippines
4 Sep 12
i dont know what the logic is behind this. but i think it's a crappy guideline. The Philippines is in the BPO industry but after this generation it'll probably change because those who will graduate high school 12 years from now will know how to weld and serve drinks but wouldn't know how to speak english.
children absorb most during their younger years. why remove english as their subject then?
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
5 Sep 12
Guess I'm partial, as English is my native tongue. It seems to me that having a universal language, such as English, would serve to unify those who speak so many dialects.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
4 Sep 12
I am against it. My son can't speak our dialect. He can only speak Filipino and English. We haven't expected this change. I guess it's not good.
