IAS, CHTM, Library get partnership with CDC for the establishment of community library, art assistance in Sogod town
The Southern Leyte State University’s Institute of Arts and Sciences (IAS), the University Library in the Main Campus, and the College of Hospitality and Tourism Management (CHTM) partnered with the Child Development Center (CDC) of Brgy. San Roque, Sogod, Southern Leyte for an extension project dubbed as Community Library and Art Assistance Project (CLAAP).
The activity started on March 2022 until December 2023 to ensure the sustainability of the project in the community.
The extension project aims to impart innovative teaching-learning strategies to the teacher of CDC in terms of tutorial reading classes, parent’s assistance in studying habits of their children, assist teachers in redesigning instructional materials through art and craft, and other necessary learning materials like guidebooks, workbooks, and audio-visual learning materials, and provide aide in setting up a community library in terms of the solicitation, collection, organization, and classification of books.
Moreover, the project has four phases which include the introduction and redesigning of learning instructional materials embedded with arts, crafts, culture, values and environmental education which are essential tools in learning every subject in the school curriculum, establishment of a community library for Brgy. San Roque, implementation of various activities such as organization, and classification of books and lecture, and workshops on recording and inventory of books. This project is deemed beneficial to the teachers, pupils, parents, barangay council, and the community at large.
This extension project emphasized the importance of quality education in ending poverty and building sustainable cities and communities in line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is to elaborately address every child’s need of quality care and child growth and development and help the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) program-CDC to accommodate a range of play and facilitate for the classroom teacher of the CDC children. This initiative is part of the University’s goals to implement responsive extension programs for sustainable development and achieve high level of satisfaction in the implementation of relevant intervention for sustainable development.
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