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Guides for Filipino Teachers

MATATAG grading, lesson planning, test construction, and the practical classroom workflows behind them — written for teachers, by the Skoolari team.

Sep 22, 2026

DepEd School Forms Explained: What Each One Is For and How They Connect

What each school form records, which ones a class adviser fills out, and how SF1 to SF10 feed each other, updated for DO 15, s. 2026.
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Sep 20, 2026

The Weekly ILAW Planning Routine: Five Lessons in About an Hour

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Sep 19, 2026

ILAW Lesson Plan Samples by Subject: Math, Science, English, Filipino, and MAPEH

The ILAW format is the same in every subject. What changes is what counts as evidence of learning — and that difference is exactly where teachers…
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Sep 18, 2026

Fitting an ILAW Lesson Into 50 or 60 Minutes

A lesson plan can be perfect on paper and still fail at 2:40 in the afternoon, when the bell goes and the assessment never happened. Ten…
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Sep 17, 2026

How to Write ILAW Intentions That Match the Competency Code

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Aug 6, 2026

How to Pilot Test an Exam Before You Give It

A practical guide to pilot testing a test instrument — why try-outs are done, the classical procedure, sample size, what the results tell you, why most…
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Aug 5, 2026

Test Reliability Explained: KR-20 and Point-Biserial

How to compute and interpret KR-20, KR-21, and the point-biserial correlation for a college exam — the formulas with a full worked example, interpretation tables, how…
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Aug 4, 2026

How to Write Course Learning Outcomes for an OBE Syllabus

A practical guide to writing course learning outcomes for a Philippine OBE syllabus — the PEO-PO-CLO hierarchy, the anatomy of a well-written outcome, constructive alignment, the…
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Aug 4, 2026

COT Indicators 1–9 Explained: What Your Observer Is Actually Looking For

The 9 Classroom Observation Tool indicators for Teacher I–III, in plain language — what each one means, what an observer must actually see, and how to…
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Aug 3, 2026

Online Exams Without a Proctor: What Actually Works

A realistic guide to giving online exams in college — why surveillance-based proctoring fails, the assessment-design tactics that make cheating pointless, the settings that matter, how…
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