THE Department of Education has prepared a timeline of activities toward the implementation of the eight-week learning recovery program.

This comes after DepEd expressed its support for House Resolution 1805, which urges the agency to suspend the regular academic program for eight to 12 weeks to implement an effective learning recovery program aimed at ensuring learners attain functional literacy and numeracy.

In a hearing conducted by the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture, chaired by Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo, DepEd Undersecretary for Curriculum and Teaching Gina Gonong said that, upon consultation with internal stakeholders, the DepEd submitted a proposal to the committee following the ABC Plus Model of Literacy and Numeracy Program for the eight-week learning recovery program.

“The timeline is part of the position paper that we submitted to the committee. So this 2024, we’ll continue consulting with stakeholders. We’ve promised teacher groups that we’ll go back to them when we’ll do the specific designs, and trainings for the program. We are also currently doing an inventory and mapping of learning resources on top of the ABC Plus learning resources,” Gonong said.

The DepEd official also shared that they have drawn up a wish list for the implementation of the eight-week learning recovery program, which includes the budget for it.

“We are currently doing focus group discussions in schools so that we can get the sentiments, the inputs of the field so we can refine the policy. When we roll it out, it will be the policy that has been vetted by the field,” she added.

In response to a question by ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, Gonong said that DepEd will test all Grades 1 to 3 students using the Comprehensive Reading Literacy Assessment Tool and the Rapid Assessment Tool for Numeracy.

Rep. Romulo also asked if the DepEd is acknowledging a problem with learners’ reading comprehension and basic mathematics. Gonong confirmed that their current basis are the results of the CRLA for reading and the RMA for math.