By GIGI AGGABAO-SORIANO
Teacher-in-Charge, Nanaguan Elementary School, City of Ilagan, Isabela
EDUCATING individuals to be productive citizens within our society is a paramount concern.
Teachers prepare learners and help them qualify them for work, integrate them deeper into society, and teach them values.
We educate our students at the Nanaguan Elementary Schoolto inculcate into their minds and hearts the value of studying.
As we see, studying is an art of acquiring and storing knowledge and skill of which one of the most effective means is reading. Reading is an avenue to a variety of information and knowledge because one must forever learn more and reason better.
Yet, studying is a never-ending process of addressing its difficulties.
In grade school, learners face the challenge to initiate bridging the pupils’ native tongue or first languageto Filipino as a second language and English as a third language.
The bridging process requires a cognitive link by associating meaningful vocal sounds with graphic symbols in Mother Tongue (like Ilocanos here in Barangay Nanaguan) prior to linking with the first language and then the third language.
The conduct of oral reading and written comprehension tests in Mother Tongue are needed. This is needed as we work into possible ways and means to help learners.
We believed that education gives us knowledge of the world and develops us to have a shield of the rigors of life. We explore ideas, we become creative, and we become productive.
Learners here need good education and we are glad to assist them for them to attain their dreams in the future.