My name is Ronaldo M. Yabut, currently teaching at Mercedes Elementary School, Mercedes
Camarines Norte.
Being a part of a significant project can be considered a privilege, especially knowing that it will
help improve a process for the students' welfare, which they can use in their future.
In September 2016, our journey began with four other fellow teachers of the Continuous
Improvement (CI) Program and began developing a Research Project based on the data our school had.
The team assigned me as a documenter of the project, the one who take photos of the activity, safekeeping
of the documents, doing the presentations. Still, I also helped organize, analyze, and verify data.
We focus on the processes that take place within the school. Based on the data we gathered, we
validated it, and we developed Project MERCEDES - Mercedes Elementary School Enhancing Reading
Comprehension in English through Developing Essential Skills. We have taken the right steps so that we
can also get good results. We looked at the curriculum and learning activities of our school. We found some
problems in the process of teaching reading in the classroom. We developed solutions, pilot-tested it, and
conducted roll-out of solutions in the school. We validated the findings, we asked some recommendations,
concluded the success of our research project.
If I am allowed to conduct research, the topic that I would be interested in pursuing is about the
effectiveness of the reading programs in school because I believe Reading has a vital role in the learning
process. It is one of the macro skills of communication that can be correlated to the pupils' academic
performance. Most of the actions and tasks in all the content areas require the students to read. It is a
mandatory skill that will help the pupils to relate to their lessons. In the actual learning context, these
struggling readers will not understand the concepts and will fail to attain the learning competencies
expected to them because of a lack of skill in Reading. I believe that because of my research project, I can
help to improve practice and to shape policy.
RONALDO M. YABUT
Graduate School Student