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SCHOOL-BASED TUTORIAL (SBT) is the program name given to the peer tutoring program designed by Daniel Evans for Sarangani Division of the Department of Education. SBT has been in use by thousands of public schools across the Philippines since its inception in 2015.
Tutoring cards may be downloaded by clicking the READING and NUMERACY buttons above the images. Download Numeracy worksheets by clicking the WORKSHEETS button.
A video produced by Latter-day Saints Charities for the SBT program, promoting its use and outlining the principle steps in implementing SBT.
Click the button below to download or view the video.
A book providing the details for implementing SBT in a school.
Click the button below to download or read the book.
Collections of stories (designed to be printed in booklets of 4-6 stories each) primarily targetting children and teens in grades 1-12. Each story is in the context of familiar Philippine life. Stories for grades 1-4, include a dictionary section for words that are likely to be new to the reader, plus questions to evaluate comprehension. Stories for teens in grades 7-12, have writing assignments to gauge comprehension and stimulate writing skills. These materials may also be used for adult literacy programs.
Go to the ELR LIBRARY page on this site, to select the stories you desire.
NOTES ABOUT TUTORING ACTIVITY CARDS
The School-Based Tutorial (SBT) program was designed and operates under two important principles:
A fresh face – meaning a fellow student – is often enough to reduce the insecurities of students who struggle to grasp regular classroom lessons, often due to unintentional or peceived intimidation by a teacher, and
Fresh instructional materials give a struggling student a second-chance at learning.
We strongly urge teachers and school heads who download the tutoring cards, to avoid using those materials for regular classroom purposes. If you do that, you will deprive your volunteer tutors of the materials they need to help struggling students. It’s the second-chance nature of SBT – a different look at lesson objectives – that makes SBT successful. So, please refrain from using the tutoring resources in the classroom. Reserve them for use by your volunteer tutors. Plus, those materials are not approved by the Department of Education for classroom application.
Many schools have sent the pdf files for the Reading and Numeracy tutoring cards, to a local printshop for printing, front and back, on card stock. Other schools have laminated those cards to give them extra life. However, each of those files can also be printed on a standard, desktop printer on either Letter or A4 sized paper.
Finally, several of the exercises on the Numeracy cards, call for answers to be provided by the tutee. To facilitate that, we have provided a downloadable set of answer sheets for those specific exercises, which you may print on Letter or A4 sized bond paper or newsprint. Each printed page contains two answer sections for the same lesson. It is very economical to print those pages on inexpensive newsprint.