STALWARTS of the local education sector, particularly private-school owners, are encouraged to embrace new teaching and learning methods so they can aid the academic system in the country to level up with international standards.
A typical classroom in the country under the “group method of instruction” proved to be unsuccessful for almost two decades. In fact, Filipino students underperformed in the National Achievement Tests from 2006 to 2014, as they trailed their foreign counterparts in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment, and the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies.
Preparing them to become globally competitive, the combination of Mastery Learning Method (MLM), One-on-One Tutoring and Higher Mental-Process Teaching can enhance their competency up to 98 percent, according to a meta-study by world-renowned educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom.
MLM empowers and capacitates private schools so they can reinvent students’ learning experiences within their classrooms. While the other two strategies proved to be difficult for the teachers to implement, adding them to the former has been effective.
By integrating technology, specifically adaptive learning techniques, structural changes in students’ learning process can now be performed in a feasible, consistent, and economical manner, per Dr. Luz Bay.
The senior adviser of Frontlearners Inc., who is also the senior psychometrician at The College Board of the United States, confirmed that the abovementioned improvements also include curriculum-aligned and adaptive algorithms effective in elevating the way students learn and are taught by teachers.
Frontlearners has spearheaded and dedicated time as well as resources to help private schools seamlessly integrate the Frontlearners’ Adaptive Mastery Learning Process (FAM). Its expertise, tools and systems can help school owners introduce the innovation accessibly, worry-free, and economical.
Through FAM, private-school teachers can provide students with individualized learning plans and activities, quality learning materials, frequent assessments, as well as timely guidance and adjustments based on their own needs.
“All these are part of Frontlearners’ learning solutions, [which addresses issues] in student competencies,” said Frontlearners Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer Leo de Velez, who added that it is the firm’s intent to aid schools in rearing students who are future-learners, and have educational capabilities that can be truly at par with our international counterparts.”