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MMA ACT 303
Health and Nutrition Center (HNC) refers to a service responsible for the over-all
management and effective delivery of the School Health and Nutrition Program (SHNP).
L.E.T- Licensure Examination for Teachers. It is a National Examination for Teachers
administered by the Board of Professional Teachers through the Professional Regulation
Commission (PRC).
Learner refers to any individual seeking basic literacy skills and functional life skills or
support services for the improvement of the quality of his/her life.
Learning Center refers to a physical space to house learning resources and facilities of a
learning program for out-of–school youth and adults. It is a venue for face-to-face learning
activities and other learning opportunities for community development of the people‟s quality of
life.
Library Hub refers to a warehouse library located in strategic place within schools
division and exclusively providing public pre-school, elementary and secondary schools with
quality and adequate supplementary reading materials arranged in plastic bins and sorted by
subject area and grade or year level.
Medium of Instruction refers to the language used for teaching and learning the school
curriculum.
Mother Tongue refers to the language first acquired by a child.
Mother Tongue- Based Multi-lingual Education (MTB-MLE) refers to „Firstlanguage first” education that is, schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transition to
additional languages particularly Filipino and English. It is meant to address the high functional
illiteracy of Filipinos where language plays a significant factor. Since the child‟s own language
enable her/him to express him/herself easily, then, there is no fear of making mistakes. It
encourages active participation by children in the learning process because they understand what
is being discussed and what is being asked of them. They can immediately use their mother
tongue to construct and explain their words, articulate their thoughts and add new concepts to
what they already know.
National Competency-Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS) refers to an integrated
theoretical framework that defines different dimensions of effective teaching, where effective
teaching means being able to help all types of student learn the different learning goals in the
curriculum.