The 2009 Search for Outstanding Reading Teacher (SORT), to honor the country’s top reading teachers and their important contribution to the field of literacy, starts yesterday (July 23). This was the announcement disclosed by the Department of Education Secretary Jesli Lapus.
SORT is open to all public elementary school teachers from Grades 1 to 6. The nominee should be a full-time public elementary school teacher with at least three years of teaching experience in Reading. All public schools are encouraged to submit nominees to their DepEd division offices, whose Division SORT Committee will determine the Division winner and submit to the Regional SORT Committee.
The criteria for the contest are: demonstration teaching = 40%, interview = 20%, essay writing = 20 % and document = 20%. The winners will get their awards during the ceremony to be held on October 16, 2009.
Meanwhile, Lapus also announced that the National Read-A-Thon (NRAT) contest will also be held together with the SORT. This is conducted to determine the best individual and team readers among elementary pupils in public schools.
For this school year, the contest is in Filipino for grade 3 pupils and English for Grade 5 pupils. Schools, divisions and regions can conduct the Read-a-Thon for all grade levels in both English and Filipino.
The NRAT has three contests namely Best Team Readers, Best in Story Retelling and Best in Oral Reading Interpretation. (DepEd)
