Page 6 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.