COVID-19 Explained: What Happens If You Get Infected
Just as of yesterday, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world with more than 42,000 deaths, with over 860,000 infected people and less than 180,000 people recovered from the disease. Here in the Philippines where enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) is being implemented, has recorded 2,633 confirmed cases, with 107 deaths, and 51 recovered cases from the disease.
DepEd Forms for Class Advisers are now again available for download as the school year ends. These are the forms being prepared by class advisers for checking and most fo these are available and generated at DepEd Learner Information System (LIS) portal.
As we create a new and exciting announcement of turnover and rebranding of our social media platform on Facebook, the page will now be converted to a more useful and dynamic page to serve its purpose.
The Curriculum and Instruction Division Education Program Supervisors and District Heads of every Division are to conduct cross-district reading assessment in response to DepEd’s Memorandum No. 173, s. 2019 dubbed as “Hamon: Bawat Bata Bumabasa.”
You may download a copy of the “Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Toolkit, Second Edition here.
In conducting a reading assessment, the “Administration and Interpretation of Rapid Assessment on Reading Skills (RARS)” can be used. The Rapid Assessment Reading Skills (RARS) is an assessment tool that provides an approximation of children’s reading skills, particularly the skill on word recognition. You can download it here.
DepEd’s Early Registration will commence from February 1 to March 6, 2020.
As the Department of Education (DepEd) “aims to inculcate a culture of excellence in its delivery of quality, accessible , relevant and liberating education for the Filipino learners,” it has developed its own Manual of Style (DMOS), 2018 Edition, that prescribes language style, format and usage based on The Chicago Manual of Style to be used by the department.
The Department of Education has just released the Service Marks and Visual Identity Manual (DSVMVIM), 2018 Edition. This contains the “guidelines on the specifications and applications of the Department’s name, seal, and logo to produce a unified look in all DepEd communications and publications.”
The National ID Law system has been signed into law by President Duterte in August 2018 to streamline the National Ddentification (ID) system to suppress corruption and to improve government services among others. This coming September, the pilot testing commences.