DepEd to further intensify initiatives in bringing education to remote areas
Published Dec 27, 2018 03:09 pm
By Merlina Hernando-Malipot
The Department of Education (DepEd) will intensify further its initiatives to reach out to “last mile learners” in line with its efforts in ensuring the delivery of education for all.
“We get feedback that there are schools in the top of the mountains, remote island and we’re identifying them,” said Education Secretary Leonor Briones.
Moreover, she emphasized that the DepEd continuously conducts efforts to trace and reach all last mile learners or those in far-flung areas where the reach of education seems impossible.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd / MANILA BULLETIN)
“We are tracing our last miler learners in places where there are still no school buildings, just make-shift structures, and where there is no chalk, paper, and occasionally, the teachers cannot make it for various reasons,” Briones said.
Earlier, the DepEd lauded six awardees of the 2018 Civil Service Commission (CSC) Honor Awards Program and the 2017 Gawad Career Executive Service (CES) composed of teachers and education leaders. The awardees were recognized for going “above and beyond their call of duty,” particularly for reaching out to last mile schools and learners.
Four teachers received the CSC Dangal ng Bayan award for their performance of an extraordinary act and consistent demonstration of exemplary ethical behavior: Roderick Labay, Head Teacher I of Apnagan Elementary School in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro; Annie Lee Masongsong, Teacher I of Labo Elementary School in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro; Windel Alvarez, Master Teacher I and Alternative Learning System (ALS) instructor of Tagbon Elementary School in Caramoan, Camarines Sur; and Lowel Andrian Solayao, Teacher III of Pilar National Comprehensive High School in Pilar, Sorsogon.
Meanwhile, Annabell Alipo-on, Principal II of Payao Elementary School in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental received the CSC Pagasa award for her outstanding contributions resulting from an idea or performance that directly benefited more than one department of the government. A DepEd official, Cristito Eco, OIC-Assistant Regional Director of DepEd-Region V, who was then the Schools Division Superintendent of Catbalogan City in Samar, received the Gawad CES which is a presidential award that recognizes members in the CES for their significant contributions in the areas of innovation, information and communications technology, social services, administrative reforms, and public policy.
Briones thanked them for bringing honor to the whole DepEd and for “serving as inspiration to other officials, teachers, and personnel in the education sector.”
Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd / MANILA BULLETIN)
“We are tracing our last miler learners in places where there are still no school buildings, just make-shift structures, and where there is no chalk, paper, and occasionally, the teachers cannot make it for various reasons,” Briones said.
Earlier, the DepEd lauded six awardees of the 2018 Civil Service Commission (CSC) Honor Awards Program and the 2017 Gawad Career Executive Service (CES) composed of teachers and education leaders. The awardees were recognized for going “above and beyond their call of duty,” particularly for reaching out to last mile schools and learners.
Four teachers received the CSC Dangal ng Bayan award for their performance of an extraordinary act and consistent demonstration of exemplary ethical behavior: Roderick Labay, Head Teacher I of Apnagan Elementary School in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro; Annie Lee Masongsong, Teacher I of Labo Elementary School in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro; Windel Alvarez, Master Teacher I and Alternative Learning System (ALS) instructor of Tagbon Elementary School in Caramoan, Camarines Sur; and Lowel Andrian Solayao, Teacher III of Pilar National Comprehensive High School in Pilar, Sorsogon.
Meanwhile, Annabell Alipo-on, Principal II of Payao Elementary School in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental received the CSC Pagasa award for her outstanding contributions resulting from an idea or performance that directly benefited more than one department of the government. A DepEd official, Cristito Eco, OIC-Assistant Regional Director of DepEd-Region V, who was then the Schools Division Superintendent of Catbalogan City in Samar, received the Gawad CES which is a presidential award that recognizes members in the CES for their significant contributions in the areas of innovation, information and communications technology, social services, administrative reforms, and public policy.
Briones thanked them for bringing honor to the whole DepEd and for “serving as inspiration to other officials, teachers, and personnel in the education sector.”