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A student tutor helps grade one pupils at the San Vicente Elementary School in Quezon City on July 9, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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Pia Gutierrez

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1729501783650TUTOR-ABS-CBN NEWS.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="A student tutor helps grade one pupils at the San Vicente Elementary School in Quezon City on July 9, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner"></span></span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;text-align:left">A student tutor helps grade one pupils at the San Vicente Elementary School in Quezon City on July 9, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</p><div></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;text-align:left">MANILA — A law to establish a pool of tutor-mentors will help struggling learners catch up on their studies but building up that pool will take time, the chair of the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture said Monday.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The pool is part of the the measures under the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Law, which directs government to implement “a free national learning intervention program that will tap teachers and para-teachers, and pre-service teachers or those students enrolled in a teacher degree program offered by Teacher Education Institutions to help struggling learners attain the competencies set by the agency.”</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo said the tutors will be assigned to mentor schools and help them make sure learners catch up competencies like reading comprehension, mathematics and science.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/18/marcos-jr-signs-into-law-the-academic-recovery-and-accessible-learning-act-1117">READ: Marcos Jr signs Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning Act</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">“Kailangan talaga ay bumuo ang ating Department of Education ng tinatawag nating tutor pool, meaning pinapayagan natin ay current teachers, para-teachers, meaning mga pasado na sa certain courses pero hindi pa pumapasa ng [Licensure Exam for Teachers] o kaya yung mga estudyante na nasa education courses natin. Dapat ito ay gumawa ng Implementing Rules and Regulations,” he said.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">(The Department of Education really needs to form the tutor pool, meaning we can tap current teachers, para-teachers who have not yet passed their licensure exams, and students of education courses. The DepEd needs to come up with the Implementing Rules and Regulations)</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Romulo acknowledged that that will take time as the DepEd develops the ARAL program.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">“Hindi naman ito overnight na meron na kaagad ng pool of tutors,” he said.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">(We cannot just get a pool of tutors overnight)</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">He said that schools will also have to make sure that the tutors, who will be volunteers, have the time and the expertise to really help learners.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/20/ph-students-need-better-access-to-computers-to-boost-test-scores-angara-1549">READ: PH students need better access to computers to boost test scores — Angara</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">President Ferdinand Marcos Jr earlier expressed confidence that the ARAL Law will help address learning gaps in the country’s education system.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Filipino learners scored poorly in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment, which showed that a staggering 75 percent of Filipino learners “fell below the minimum proficiency levels in reading, mathematics and science.”</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M69jedkP-sI?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>A law to establish a pool of tutor-mentors will help struggling learners catch up on their studies but building up that pool will take time, the chair of the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture said Monday.</p>

A law to establish a pool of tutor-mentors will help struggling learners catch up on their studies but building up that pool will take time, the chair of the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture said Monday.

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Romulo hopeful for ARAL Law, acknowledges finding tutors to help learners catch up will take time

Pia Gutierrez,

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Published Oct 21, 2024 05:02 PM PHT

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Updated Oct 21, 2024 05:10 PM PHT

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