GLOBE Telecom is helping develop language literacy among children through its Global Filipino Teachers initiative that aims to improve the reading abilities of children.

The company partnered with Teach for the Philippines to provide essential learning sessions that promote 21st century learning and maximize digital resources among public school teachers and learners amid the pandemic.

A focus of the GFT learning sessions is Early Language Literacy. In recent GFT webinars, attendees were taught how to teach pre-reading skills, introduce sound and print, decoding and sight-reading as well as plan a reading program for children under the new normal.

Through the webinars, Globe aims to equip educators and parents with the knowledge to conduct an effective reading program to improve learners’ progress as well as guide them on the best offline and online approaches to reading.

During the discussions, teachers learned how children can combine strong decoding skills while expanding their sight vocabulary so they can invest more brain energy into comprehending what they are reading.

The webinars also discussed appropriate combination of learning modalities to target different learning goals, ways to monitor learners’ progress, and how to maximize learning by teaching children games and activities that they can engage in repeatedly for independent practice.

Teachers were also encouraged to involve students in preparing their own instructional materials out of common household objects and how they can nurture relationships with the children and their families. The sessions can be viewed through https://www.facebook.com/GlobeBridgeCom/.

“Our Global Filipino Teachers program supports our public school teachers with the necessary skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to achieve 21st century learning.  More than ever, these supplementary programs are necessary to promote new skills needed in this new normal,” Yoly Crisanto, Globe Chief Sustainability Officer and SVP for Corporate Communications, said.

“Our teachers and students need all the support that they can get. With new and innovative techniques in teaching reading to beginning and non-readers, we hope our teachers will be able to help improve our public school students’ learning outcomes even more confidently,” TFP’s Marketing and Events Director Angel Ramos said.