MindaNews » Dynamic Learning Program helps students cope with Sendong trauma.

By Cong Corrales

January 29, 2012

 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/28 January) – A revolutionary innovation in teaching, applied in public high schools here has given its students an edge over those using the traditional, classroom-type, learning system in their learning recovery since tropical storm Sendong claimed a thousand lives and affected hundreds of thousands more last month.

One such school, Angeles Sisters National High School (ASNHS)  in Barangay Consolacion  — one of the worst hit among 25 barangays affected — was knee-deep in mud after the flashfloods last month so that when classes resumed on January 3, they only had a 44% attendance, Gil Araneta, ASNHS principal, said. But in a span of  two weeks, attendance had reached 90 per cent.

Araneta said they gave their students a series of Psycho-Social sessions when they started the classes for a week. He said the Dynamic Learning Program (DLP), a teaching method that takes into consideration the latest result from the fields of neuroscience,  has enabled the program’s students to cope with  their traumatic experience during the flood and at the same time revive their fervor for learning.

“The program is innovative in that it lets the students learn by discovering through activities,” he said. He added that since they applied DLP in their school, performance indicators of their students showed stark improvements.

He said their first year and fourth year levels championed the city district’s Math Challenge early last year. They also bagged second place in a Rotary International-sponsored Quiz bee, last year. “DLP teaches the students the virtue of discipline. The program is designed to maximize students’ motivation, focus, confidence and composure, self-discipline and stamina in learning,” the principal said.

ASNHS currently has a graduating class of 133 students. Because the program has lessened the need for classrooms and textbooks, their students were able to recover faster, Araneta said.

Read full article @ www.mindanews.com