Around 1,500 public school teachers from seven divisions of Negros Oriental and Siquijor will be in Silliman University until May 21 for the mass training of grade 9 teachers on the K to 12 Basic Education Program, a press release from SU said.

The participants come from the divisions of Bayawan, Dumaguete, Tanjay, Bais, Guihulngan, Siquijor and Negros Oriental. The training is a partnership between Silliman and the Department of Education, the press release also said.

SU is one of the first schools in the Central Visayas that have comprehensively prepared for the implementation of the K to 12 education reform. It also assisted other schools in the Visayas and Mindanao on the integration of the program, the press release said.

Teachers from Silliman, Negros Oriental State University, and the DepEd, who have attended the National Training for Trainers, held last month in Cebu City, are leading the training sessions in Science, Math, English, Filipino, Araling Panlipunan, MAPEH or Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health, and EsP or Edukasyongsa Pagkatao, the press release also said.

The training focuses on building the capacity of grade 9 teachers to be able to appreciate the K to 12 coded curriculum and practice using the curriculum guides, teaching guides and learning materials; demonstrate understanding of the issues or concerns on content, performance standards, assessment and rating system; identify the most appropriate pedagogies, and understand how to localize and indigenize the curriculum; cite concrete measures of interventions to assist all types of students; and cite connection of daily teaching and learning to the development of learning outcomes, the press release added.*

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