Catch-up Fridays is a learning mechanism intended to strengthen the foundational, social, and other relevant skills necessary to actualize the intent of the basic education curriculum. This initiative is integral in the National Reading and Mathematics Programs which are critical subprograms of the NLRP stipulated in DepEd Order no.13, s. 2023. This study aimed to unveil the practices of teachers in the implementation of Catch-Up Friday’s basis for benchmarking and streamlining the program management. The findings of the study revealed that the extent of implementation of Catch-Up Fridays in terms of school readiness is practiced to a great extent while learning resources is described as practiced as moderate extent, teachers’ readiness as little extent and assessment is moderate extent. Although some areas of the implementation have been practiced as great extent, the results require notable collective effort from school and other stakeholders to enhance and intensify the program implementation to address the problem on reading. However along its implementation, there are three challenges emerged as barrier in the implementation of catch-up Fridays such as, Lack of Trainings and Seminars for Teachers, Lack of Teaching and Learning Resources and Lack of Students’ motivation and Engagement. These problems had significantly affected the achievement of the goals of the program. Moreover, the best practices espoused by the Pag-asa National high School Teachers are Strengthened collaboration, Localization of Reading Text and Acceptance and willingness of Teachers. This elucidates the positive impact of Catch-Up Fridays on reading proficiency and integration. Furthermore, it is recommended that teachers should be capacitated with information and skills to ensure quality implementation, this places an increased responsibility on the teacher who must diversify instructional content, methods.
Catch-Up Fridays, Reading Skills, Reading Performance.
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