To: Bureau Directors
Regional Directors
Schools Division/City Superintendents
Heads, Public Elementary Schools

1. Pursuant to DECS Order No. 36, s. 2001, which institutionalized the National Model-of-Excellence (MOE) Schools Program which consists of schools that received donations of books, computers, and other educational materials from Books for the Barrios, and in order to maximize the use of books in the MOE libraries, this Department hereby issues the following guidelines:
   1. All elementary schools included in the National MOE Schools Program are expected to implement all the teaching methods, techniques and strategies listed in Enclosure A;
   2. All elementary schools included in the National MOE Schools Program should submit a monthly report on the last school day of each month during the schoolyear on their compliance with the requirements listed in the enclosure to their respective Schools Superintendents and Regional Directors, copy furnished to Manila Office of Books for the Barrios;
   3. Other elementary schools are encouraged to adopt any of the teaching methods, techniques and strategies as applicable; and
   4. It is understood that MOE requirements are over and above the usual requirements embodied in various Department issuances. MOE schools are not Exempted from such requirements.
2. Enclosed for reference are the following:
   1. Enclosure A – Teaching Methods, Techniques and Strategies and Other Requirements
   2. Enclosure B – List of Words for Word of the Day
   3. Enclosure C – Computer Curriculum for MOE Elementary Schools
   4. Enclosure D – List of Model of Excellence Schools (as of July 1, 2004)
   5. Enclosure E – MOE Monthly Report Format
3. Immediate dissemination of this Memorandum is desired.

Encls.:
As stated
Reference:
DECS Order: (No. 36, s. 2001)
Allotment: 1—(D.O. 50-97)

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