De La Salle University - Manila

Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER)

The Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER) of the College of Education (CED) develops programs such as SBTP and Operation Big Brother.

School-Based Teacher Education Program (SBTP)

SBTP is a move to make teacher training more sustainable and independent of external inputs. It seeks to shift from the traditional method of training, otherwise known as the Cascade Model, through which knowledge passes through several channels, from the national to the regional to the district levels before reaching the classroom.

The SBTP evaluation was undertaken as a follow-up of a baseline study conducted by LIDER in school year 2002-2003. The baseline study sought to discover the knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the teaching of mathematics and science in public schools in Regions 5, 6, 7, and later 11. It was conducted six months after DepEd started implementing SBTP.
For the current study, the researchers compared data surveyed from over 2,000 teachers, from around 2,000 classroom observations, from lesson plans of some 2,000 teachers and from about 35,000 students.

Results showed that after two years of implementation of SBTP, there were good indicators of the program’s success. They noted that the respondents have modified their goals of science and math education, and that their students have also indicated improvements in their teachers’ classroom performance.

Operation Big Brother (OBB)

Operation Big Brother (OBB), a program of LIDER, improves the quality of education in public schools, it is partnered with three schools namely Arellano High School, Gregorio Perfecto High School and V. Mapa High School.