Mobile Teacher Program

Exequiel B. Cebrian, Jr.

Alternative Learning System, EDUC 917/324
LOURDES G. TOLOD, Ph.D.
Professor

The objectives of MTP are as follows:

A. Make education accessible to out-of-school youth
and adults;
B. Raise the level of literacy in the target areas;
C. Improve the quality of life of individuals and families
in remote and underserved communities; and
D. Increase the cohort survival rate at the
elementary/secondary level.

Primary Purpose of Education For All (EFA)

(DECS Order No. 38, s. 1993)
Improving Access to Elementary Education by
providing complete Grade Levels in All Public
Elementary Schools through Combination and/or
Multigrade level Classes and the attainment of MidDecade Goals (MDG) in education and in support of
the successful implementation of the Mobile
Teachng Program.
Adopting/Adapting as an alternative scheme for the
delivery of educational services and to get all
school-age children to school especially in mountain

school divisions, island divisions, divisions where

mobility of school-age children is hazardous and in
cultural communities with nomadic life style.
The MTP may be deemed as stop-gap approach
considdering cultural characteristics and may cease
in operation when the government shall have
established elementary schools in all barangays and
when all incomplete elementary schools shall have
offered the complete elementary curriculum.

Rationale :
The Mobile Teaching Program (MTP) is envisioned
as an alternative delivery system of
elementary/secondary education to school-age
children in different grade levels in underserved
and remote communities.

What is the ALS Mobile Teacher Program?

It is a delivery mode of ALS
programs where
specialized teacher called
Mobile Teachers live among
the people in remote
barangays of the country to
conduct intensive
community-based training for illiterate out-of-school
youth and adults who are willing to learn basic literacy
skills.

Who are the ALS Mobile Teachers?

For the full and effective implementation of the ALS,
600 Mobile Teachers have been deployed and
assigned to areas where the unreached and
underserved population of the country are.
Qualifications as ALS Mobile Teachers:
1. Bachelor degree holders
2. Duly licensed professional teachers

Duties and Responsibilities of ALS

Mobile Teachers are as follows:
1. Conduct of learning
sessions with the learners;
2. Develop literacy and other
related skills based on the
ALS competencies;
3. Establish functional
networking and reporting
system;
4. Conduct action-research
activity and other related
functions.

Who Benefit from the ALS Mobile

Teacher Program?
The target sites and communities for
this Program are those with high
illiteracy rate, big number of out-ofschool youth and adults and identified
Strong Republic Schools (SRS)
barangays. The ALS Mobile Teachers
help improve the quality of their lives
and help them become useful members
of their communities by helping them
read, write and compute.

When and Where Do Learning

Sessions Happen?
Learning sessions take place in the
community using ALS learning
modules for at least 3 months or until
such time that the learners have
become literate (for Basic Program) or has acquired
necessary competencies (for Accreditation and
Equivalency Program) before moving on to another
barangay.