SOUTELE

1976
 SOUTELE
o Survey of the Outcomes of
Elementary Education

 In 1975, the Philippines launched

Project Survey of the Outcomes
of Elementary Education
(SOUTELE) to determine the
state of elementary education.
Project SOUTELE, which
emphasizes a battery of criterion-
referenced academic achievement
tests, represents a movement
toward the development of
national quality standards.
Results have implications for the
use of minimum competency
tests, teacher training, and norm-
versus criterion-referenced tests.
 Based Assessment
o Direct and frequent
measurement of student
performance on the classroom
curriculum in order to ascertain
student instructional needs --
used principally for instructional
decision making, the approach
also supports screening,
placement, and monitoring in
special education.
 Educational Planning
Process of determining the
objectives of education,
educational institutions, or
educational programs and the
means (activities, procedures,
resources, etc.) for attaining
them (Note: Use a more
specific term if possible)
 Elementary Education
Education provided in
kindergarten or grade 1
through grade 6, 7, or 8
(Note: Also appears in the list
of mandatory educational
level Descriptors)
 PROGRAM OF ACTION
 Studiesshow that students achieved less than
the mastery level in reading. In the comparison
of the Grade VI New Elementary School
Curriculum (NESC) Tryout Test and the Survey
of Outcomes of Elementary Education
(SOUTELE) 1976 &1986 Test Results, students
had a 52.78% in the NESC Tryout Tests while
according to the SOUTELE, students had a
Mean Percentage Score of 40.13 in 1976 and
42.51 in 1986. This may be due to inadequate
or inappropriate teaching learning strategies
used in a reading classroom. The need for a
reading program to strengthen the existing
Communication Arts Program is very apparent.
 OBJECTIVES

The following are the objectives of the

proposed Reading Program.  

I. Develop the childrens genuine love for

reading
II. Develop the childrens high level reading
skills
III. Encourage students to be autonomous
learners
IV. Enhance childrens self-identity and
encourage positive social relationships
through the use of literature and interactive
learning.
 FEATURES OF A PROPOSED
READING PROGRAM
 A. READING MATERIALS
 A child need to read in order to learn to
read but children could hardly read if
they dont have books, newspapers and
other reading materials to read. There
should be a lot of interesting reading
materials in the reading corner or in the
reading resource center to tempt the
child to read. The materials could be old
newspapers, old issues of magazines old
storybooks, recipe books and even
pocketbooks, anything that would
encourage the child to include reading in
FEATURES OF A PROPOSED READING
PROGRAM

B.SOURCE OF THE READING

MATERIALS

Administrators could tap the

local business establishments,
and community organizations
and well-off private individuals
to donate reading materials to
the schools in their locality.
 FEATURES OF A PROPOSED
READING PROGRAM

READING CORNER AND READING
C.
RESOURCE CENTER/LIBRARY
 There should be at least a reading corner or
a reading resource center in every school
where different kinds of reading materials
such as books, magazines and newspapers
and if possible a computer is available for
childrens use. This area should contain
enough variety of reading materials as well
as provide space for childrens movements
like lying in the floor, sprawling in a
hammock or just sitting in the floor.
 
 FEATURES OF A PROPOSED READING
PROGRAM
E. EFFECTIVE READING TEACHERS
 In todays world of dazzling visual effects in
television and family or personal
computers, students would hardly read if
they not encourage by the teachers to do
so. It is important that teachers modeled
reading by reading newspapers first thing
in the morning before their classes or
reading books, novels and magazines
during their break time. They should also
create opportunities where they read
aloud to the students even in the higher
grades to give the children models for
expressive reading (fluency and
 FEATURES OF A PROPOSED READING
PROGRAM
 Teachers could also compile lesson plans and
visual aids for stories in the reading resource
center which they could swap with the other
reading teachers in the same grade level to
lighten their work as well as gain insights into
another teachers idea of recreating a story with
provisions on skill development.
 Reading teachers should be aware of the
different approaches and strategies in reading so
that they can justify what they are doing in the
classroom as well as make decisions on what is
needed by their students based on their 3 times
a week reading instruction and interaction.
  
 FEATURES OF A PROPOSED
READING PROGRAM
F. PARENTS  
 Parents should be encouraged to help in the
development of their childrens literacy.
Parents of emergent readers should be
made aware of the importance of reading to
very young children at home (also called
the lap experience). Parents could also read
to children at school in a once a week
parent conducted story telling. This would
make the children proud of their parents
who are reading not only to them but to
other children as well.
  
 THANK YOU
FOR
LISTENING!!
Reporter:
Librero, Lea M.
BSEd 3 Filipino