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DepEd Quezon beefs up language teachers’ skills in facilitating critical literacy, authentic assessment

 With the aim to deliver quality language teaching and elevate its standards, Schools Division Office (SDO) DepEd Quezon conducted the Division Training on Teaching Language in the Forefront of Critical Literacy and Authentic Assessment last June 6-10 at M.I. Sevilla’s Farm and Resort Domoit, Lucena City. According to Abner L. Pureza, Education Program Supervisor (EPS) in English and as stated in the Division Memorandum No.381 s. 2022, the said training was in adherence to the Continuing Professional Development for teachers, especially language educators and in support to DepEd Quezon’s Project SHINE which generally aims to deliver quality language teaching – learning strategies that facilitate critical and functional literacy and design sample authentic assessment test items in English. “The training has renewed the commitment of teachers in offering outlets for learners to nurture and nourish critical literacy as required in this brave-new-world. Learning is not just mastering concepts and knowledge but more so on how they make sense of them,” EPS Pureza said. Around 50 elementary English teachers and 60 secondary school teachers from the four districts of Quezon attended the training divided in two phases: June 6-8 for elementary teachers and June 8-10 for the secondary group. Ms. Cynthia Tadong, Head Teacher VI of Quezon NHS discussed offline pedagogies that promote critical literacy while Ms. Rubyrose Baldovino shared her flair in online pedagogies that promote critical and functional literacy. EPS Pureza talked about the interfacing of curriculum standards, learning delivery, PPAs, and assessment in the English Curriculum and how these matters being fused in coming up with authentic assessment tools. EPS Pureza also delivered insights on understanding authentic assessment and how this is differentiated from traditional assessment. “Authentic assessment drives the curriculum, while in traditional assessment - it’s the curriculum that drives the assessment,” EPS Pureza highlighted. The training’s main output was crafting of authentic assessment tools that integrate critical and functional literacy per grade level. The participants were grouped according to the assigned grade level and tasked to design 50-item test questions subject for quality assurance. (Jerwin S. Tierra, Talipan NHS) #