I read with interest, an article in the Bulletin Today wherein the Department of Education is holding a Summer Training Course for Teachers of the Special Program in Foreign Language (SPFIL) - Spanish in my Spanish school, the Instituto! That's cool! It's great that our Education Secretary Armin Luistro is pushing this program for another year. I remember last year, we had to have our classes in Adamson because of these teachers. The article says though that the participants of the seminar will use the AVE or the Aula Virtual de Espanol. We use that too in class!
Aside from Spanish, the DepEd has piloted different foreign languages including Japanese, French, German and Chinese for secondary school teachers from various schools nationwide in 2011. How cool is that! These seminars form part of the DepEd's thrust to improve the quality of education through teacher's education and training.
According to Luistro, "Knowledge in a foreign language will allow our students to participate in intellectual discourses during engagement in social, political and economic issues in a wider global and scientific community. And as we communicate our thoughts and understand others, we can further develop our potentials and enhance our capacity in learning life skills, as well as the cognitive and effective competencies, required of us to connect to the world."
