SAN JOSE CITY, Nueva Ecija – The first ever Kiddie Career Center in Central Luzon was launched in this city where early grade learners in Nueva Ecija and other provinces in the region can look forward to a more enjoyable learning experience.
Located at the Library Hub of the Schools Division Office here, the Kiddie Career Center allows kindergarten and grade 1 pupils to imagine their future through fun and wholesome activities.
It has 13 career booths and other learning facilities where children can act out different characters and roles.
“This is an integral part of children’s developmental learning process, it encourages them to dramatize roles of someone or something other than themselves,” Dr. Teresa Mababa, schools division superintendent of San Jose City, said on Thursday.
The career booths include an agri farm, bakeshop, supermarket, police station, fire station, automotive repair shop, beauty salon, science laboratory, hospital, kiddie bank, music studio, and kiddie school.
Aside from the kiddie career center, the Library Hub encourages learners and teachers to create and innovate by providing free use of computer facilities, print and non-print collections, and physical space for developing learning and teaching resources.
It also delivers books door to door to public school libraries and learning resource centers to encourage the love and habit of reading.
Reading sessions and activities such as the Celebrity Reader Program and Malikhaing Pagbasa were started to be conducted in 13 consecutive Tuesdays for the first batch.
The first and only Kiddie Career Center in the region, this is aligned with the Creative Schools Framework of DepEd Region 3 in which the value of creativity is highlighted as a core attribute in molding the generation of “thinkers” and “tinkers” to be able to boost the achievement and success rates of the students. (Marilyn Espiritu-Galang/PNA)