Description

            The Balik-Paaralan Para sa Out-of-School Adults (BP-OSA) is a nonformal education program for the secondary delivered in 114 public elementary and secondary schools teachers serving as Instructional Managers (IMs). Each instructional manager has a leanring group made up of not less than fifty (50) learners. Entry of learners in the program at any time is allowed as a matter of policy.

            The school principals of those schools serving as Principal-Coordinators (PCs) supervise the conduct of the learning sessions. BP-ISA is a school-based delivery mode of ALS A&E program.

Objectives of BP-OSA

• Provide a system for assessing levels of literacy and nonformal learning achievement based on a curriculum covering functional literacy skills and competencies that are designed to be comparable to those of the formal school system.
• Offer an alternative pathway by which out-of-school children, youth and adults earn an educational qualification comparable to that of the formal school system.
• Enable out-of-school children, youth and adults to gain reading, writing and numeracy skills to meet their learning goals as they define them; and
• Strengthen the acquisition of employable and trainable skills in enterpreneruship and livelihood skills.

Target Learners

            The learners of the BP-OSA program are out-school children, youth and adults who have not completed basic education.

By: Victor R. Lazaro | Teacher III | DALSC | ORION, BATAAN