KATULDUAN CENTER

Tutorial Classes


Rizal was once recorded in 2005 with the highest proportion of out-of-school children with 43% among the municipalities in Palawan as stated in a publication entitled “The Many Faces of Poverty Volume 2”. Some factors that contribute to this is because of poverty and limited infrastructures. As years passed, the government addressed this issue through the Department of Education which has built more or less 25 elementary schools. Unfortunately, the government suspended the Face to Face Learning in August 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic so the Department of Education implemented the Modular Distance Learning (MDL). Modular Distance Learning allows students to use self-learning modules (SLM) in print or digital format provided by the teacher in the context of the learning resources like textbooks, activity sheets and other study materials. The teachers, when possible, will do home visits to assist the learners. The parents will get the modules on Mondays then bring it home for the kids to complete it and return it back either on Fridays or the next Monday. Any family member needs to serve as para-teachers and this is where the big challenge comes in.
In Rizal, teachers are limited to, even not able to visit the learners at home because of various reasons like the location of the houses in terms of distance and accessibility. They also have a lot of students and are not able to go to all of their homes. They also need to do the constructing and printing of the new sets of modules to be distributed in each week. Then never forget to consider the checking of the returned modules and lastly the assessment of the progress of the learner. With this, most of the time, it is the parents’ responsibility in helping the children to understand and answer the questions in the modules. To some this is doable but to the majority of those parents who themselves were not able to finish their education or worst, were not even able to go to school, this is very impossible. As a result, some learners are very slow in submitting their modules while to others, it would be a waste for them to walk 11 kilometers from home to school and get the modules but at home, they are not able to answer it so better stop their studies. This is very common in Bgy. Ransang, Candawaga and Culasian since there are a lot of them who are part of the Indigenous People.
Gabay Kalinga Foundation is now helping 104 learners at Sitio Tuburon of Bgy. Culasian, Sitio Balen Balen and Sitio Pinagkubuan both of Bgy. Ransang. This program is also be open for children who are out of school, who are still willing to learn and prepare themselves for the next school year.

The Youth is the Hope of our Future.

-Dr. Jose P. Rizal