COMPOSTELA VALLEY PROVINCE (May 23, 2013) PIA - With education as one of his main advocacies, Compostela Valley Provincial Governor Arturo T. Uy has widened his educational programs ranging from scholarship, special program for employment of students during summer, on-the-job trainings, English proficiency, and reading programs.
Project ARTURO (Accelerated Readers, Tomorrow’s Ultimate Response to Opportunities) which is now on its second phase, has opened opportunities not only for the pupils whose reading skills will be developed but for the reading teachers as well to enhance their teaching skills.
In August 2012, after the launching of Project ARTURO 2, the PLGU identified 9 pilot school recipients and were assigned with trained and competent Reading Teachers. Series of Assessment Meetings and Progress Reports are conducted from time to time by Dr. Lillian C. Calicdan, the Program Coordinator to keep track with the reading development of these pilot schools.
Being a reading development program, Project ARTURO 2 not only focuses on teaching a child how to read but to comprehend what he reads.
In April 2013, the provincial local government unit (PLGU) in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) conducted a Summer Reading Camp in Montevista attended by more or less 50 pupils, parents, and reading teachers. There were High School student-volunteers also who served as Reading Buddies.
It was followed with a 2-day Seminar-Workshop on Teaching Beginning Reading on May 22 & 23 attended by the Provincial Local School Board Teachers, Reading Teachers, and there were even observer-teachers from the neighboring provinces and cities who heard about the program.
According to the Governor, while provision of school facilities is necessary to make the students and teachers comfortable, a reading program itself is absolutely necessary to build a community of readers.
On the other hand, the PLGU has partnered also with the Alcantara Foundation for another reading program dubbed as Compostela Valley Transforming Education Today (COMET) with pilot schools also identified under their corporate social responsibility. (grace almedilla, ids-comval)
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