2. BASIC LITERACY PROGRAM (BLP)
Basic Literacy Program (BLP) is an intensive
community-based training for illiterate out-
of-school youth and adults, who are willing
to learn basic literacy skills
3. What are the three basic literacy skills?
* ability to read with comprehension
* ability to compute simple problems
* creative thinking and problem solving
4. TARGET LEARNERS– ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?
ALS target learners are the:
• non-literates,
• functional literates,
• out-of-school youth (OSY) and adults,
• elementary and high school dropouts,
• qualifiers of Philippine Educational Placement Test
(PEPT),
• people who opt not to go back to formal school
system, and just about anybody who would want to
continue learning.
5. Step 1: Recruitment
The Service Provider, Literacy
Facilitator and Mobile Teacher, District
ALS Coordinators will go to the target
community (house-to-house) to recruit
learners
HOW DO LEARNERS ACCESS BLP?
6. Step 2: Screening and Placement
The recruited learners will
undergo screening and placement
test using the Functional Literacy Test
(FLT)
7. Step 3: Enrolment
Learners who are qualified will be
enrolled to BLP
Learners will prepare their Individual
Learning Agreement (ILA)
8. What happens to the BLP completers
• enroll to A&E Program
• mainstream to formal school
• enter the world of work
• enroll to TESDA training
9. • ANDRAGOGY
• Learning upon
demand.
• Learner no age bracket
• Takes place anywhere
outside the school
• Subject matter
depends on learner’s
needs
• Facilitator is anyone
with interest, concern,
commitment with basic
literacy skills.
• PEDAGOGY
• Keeps students in
order to finish 10th
grade.
• With age bracket.
• In school
• Depends on
prescribed
curriculum
• Facilitator is a
professional.
10. TEACHING STATEGIES
The ALS employed the three distinct stages of
the learning process:
• Facilitator Aided Instruction Stage,
• Transition to self Learning Stage and
• Self-learning Stage.
11. FACILITATOR INSTRUCTION STAGE
Facilitator-Aided Instruction who handles
the Lower Elementary Level, he
provides varied learning materials and
delivery system which can be described
as a flexible learning system.
Choices are possible over what, when,
where and how they learn even within
the constraints of limited resources.
Face-to-face learning session is
employed.
12. The processes used are
• Learning Group Session,
• Organization of Learners,
• Identification of Learning Goals,
• Preparation of ILA ( Individual
Learning Agreement ),
• Variety of Presentation/strategies
and Follow-up Visits/ Home Visits
13. • Transition to self learning / Autonomous
Learning, the process used are :
Learners used the modules,
• Alone,
• In group,
• Group discussion and
• Formulation of Individual Learning
Agreement .
14. • face-to-face,
• modular,
• study groups,
• print and audio-
based learning,
• tutorial,
mentoring, and
even home visits.
• self and interactive
learning
• mentoring, and even
home visits
• In terms of
languages of
instruction, these
can be local
languages or
dialects, Filipino, or
English, depending
on the programits.
METHODS OF TEACHING
