• Creating Teaching Aids

The newest addition to our list of workshop offerings, this is a course for early education and day care teachers.  It teaches the participants how to create safe, age-appropriate, and interactive teaching aids made from indigenous and recyclable materials. 

• Developing Book-Based Lesson Plans

This workshop is a crash course on the development of a literature-oriented curriculum. An instructional class on how to mine stories for pedagogical treasures, it will teach the participants how to use storybooks as a springboard for lessons in varied academic subjects and basic preschool concepts.

• Developing Community Literacy Programs

This workshop will teach participants how to mine literary texts for pedagogical values, organize reading programs in the school, and turn the school library into a functional source of knowledge and entertainment. This workshop aims to help schools in raising the interest of students in literature, the library, and reading as a whole.

• Developing a Culturally-Relevant Curriculum

A workshop for preschool teachers, this will teach participants how to develop lesson plans using references and settings that are more familiar to the Filipino child. Using local cultural treasures and traditions, this course will show how teaching basic preschool concepts can be used to raise socially-aware young citizens.

• Learning from the Past

For social science teachers and history enthusiasts, this is a seminar-workshop on reading and teaching history. The workshop will focus on developing skills and habits, and creating simple and fun activities, with the goal of making the social studies classroom more engaging and interesting.

• Library Improvement Series

This workshop for librarians and reading center staff shows participants how to encourage the children in their school or community to discover the joys of reading. It covers topics such as choosing books, distinguishing reading levels, and developing library activities.

• Promoting Reading in the School

This workshop will teach participants how to mine literary texts for pedagogical values, organize reading programs in the school, and turn the school library into a functional source of knowledge and entertainment. This workshop aims to help schools in raising the interest of students in literature, the library, and reading as a whole.

• School Readiness

Recommended for parents with children who are just about to go to school, this workshop shares ways on how parents can teach kids preliminary preschool concepts at home.  It discusses the prerequisites for learning to read.

• Storytelling

A workshop on the art of narration, it focuses on the tools a storyteller can use, and how these tools can be maximized to the storyteller’s advantage.  It gives tips on choosing stories, preparing for storytelling sessions, and developing different ways to tell a story. 

• Teaching Beginning Reading

This workshop tackles the Four-Pronged Approach, a literature-based method of teaching beginning reading. Each of the four prongs are discussed, accompanied by extensive modules, then applied by the participants through interesting and practical activities.