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and finger spelling to kindergarten students with hearing
“It is a privilege to be a teacher of
diverse population and a mentor
who shares research as synergistic
activities to her colleagues; a
researcher who contributes to the
generation of new knowledge;
and a public servant who uses
reading as a weapon.”
ME TR OBANK FOUND ATION 8 2021 OUT STANDING FILIPINOS
impairment. To date, the Department of Education’s (DepEd)
Learning Resources Management and Development Portal, a
digital library of downloadable teaching and learning materials,
registered around 900 downloads of the workbook. BMI, as an
instructional strategy, also became a benchmark model in the
DepEd Divisions of Iloilo and Iloilo City and was already replicated
by around 178 schools.
For Dr. Tarol, a teacher’s work does not stop when she steps out
of the classroom. Beyond the school premises, she introduced
her instructional approach to indigenous learners and Persons
Deprived of Liberty (PDL) through an offshoot of BMI called “Ang
Pagbasa ay may Pag-asa Program.”
This extension initiative ensures that Dr. Tarol’s contextualized
and localized learning materials also benefit multi-grade Ati Tribe
Learners in Andres Drapiza Extension, Camangahan Elementary