National Reading Month Free Webinar Series DepEd

 NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL READING AND BOOK MONTH.

Come and join us as we recognize reading's significance in developing learners' communication and language skills and cultivating their critical thinking skills vital to being empowered citizens of the 21st century. The Office of the Undersecretary for Administration (OUA), through the Information and Communications Technology Service-Educational Technology Unit (ICTS-EdTech), will conduct its first-ever National Reading and Book Month Webinar Series 2021 for administrators, educators, reading and literacy enthusiasts, and reading and literacy advocates.

This webinar series event will have open registration and will be held every Saturday of November (November 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2021) from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with the following objectives:

1. To Celebrate November as National Reading Month and National Book Development Month;

2. Promote full awareness and understanding of the role of reading and literacy in cultivating the critical thinking skills of learners;

3. Retool, reskill, and upskill language teachers about the current trends of reading pedagogy streamlined to emerging technologies and the issues and aims of 21st-century learning design;

4. Provide learning opportunities for educators through topics catered to by writers, publishers, reading innovators, reading and language professors, storytelling advocates, and reading and literacy educators and enthusiasts; and

5. Emphasize the role of solid partnerships among the government, private institutions, writers, publishers, and educators in improving Filipino learners' reading and literacy skills.

Certificates of participation and certificate of recognition will be obtained on the PD-LMS website.