Articles

  • PURSUIT OF PALARO GOLD: A REFORM IN THE ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE
    The traditional pedagogical structure of the Philippine academe heavily puts emphasis on theoretical learning- leaning towards the credence that learners need to know the book in order to discover life. This has been effective in the past and continues to be relevant today. However, with the changing era, evolving learners, ...
  • Hiring the Experts
    The real treasure of the Department of Education doesn’t come from its achievements. It lies on the stability of its human resources.  The people working behind can definitely make or break the department so it is imperative that they should hire competent people who will contribute to the success of ...
  • Public Service is Public Interest
    There may be many accusations against public servants – people who work in public offices – who are often being complained of not offering a good service to the general public.  It is because of the fact that there are those who did their job inefficiently and who face their ...
  • A Reflection on Managing Change through School Heads Development Program
    By: Sofronio D. Arizala Jr.        Principal I       Nursery High School   I belonged to the last batch of School Heads of the School Heads Development Program (SHDP) and somehow from what I’ve heard from my fellow leaders who belonged to earlier batches, I felt apprehensive and detached since ...
  • School and Community Linkages
    It is evident that schools and communities should work closely with each other to meet their mutual goals. The community and the school are two important social institutions. Both community and school have linkage as the school cannot be seen as an independent institution that is isolated from the society ...
  • Perks of Being a Teacher
    What’s the best thing about being a teacher? If you are like the majority out there, you probably answered summer vacation, holidays and bonuses. And this is a great perk of being a teacher, without a doubt. But aside from that, there is a greater thing about being a teacher. ...
  • Patience is a virtue
    There are several characteristics that all teachers must possess. Patience, passion, dedication, etc. If these characteristics are lacking, a teacher cannot be an effective educator. But above all, patience is the most important. I have read the book “The Elements of Teaching”. What I learned after reading is it simply offers ...
  • Multi-teacher
                            When I was a kid, I used to think that it’s easy to be a teacher, that teaching was an easy job. For as long as you have the chalk, blackboard, lesson plan, class record and you can teach a lesson, presto you can be a teacher. But ...
  • How far are we in Solid Waste Management?
     Solid Waste Management has been an issue for how many years in the Philippines. Are we aware of what is happening around us? Do we ever think that there is something happening wrong with our doings when it comes to environmental protection? We’re staying in school for how many years ...
  • Grade 1 Teachers as Classroom Managers
    It is safe to claim that the Grade 1 teacher is a classroom manager. A grade 1 teacher has an extra responsibility to start things off on the right foot. He/she should be a well-rounded in all task, full of enthusiasm, energetic, patient and ready in all the circumstances that ...
  • Supervision
                Supervision plays a vital role in the teaching learning process. Teachers should be happy with the presence of principals and supervisors in their respective classroom. They are not lion nor tiger that will tear your heart instead an angel that will guide you to the right track. Supervision is ...
  • Answers to Failures of Academic Institution
                Results reflected in the data of National Achievement Test tell the continuing decline of literacy in the educational system of low performing schools. There are factors to be considered in the failure of Academic Institutions. There must be actions undertaken that should be instituted by the school personnel, parents ...
  • Mother-tongue as a Subject
    In Masbate, Minasbate is the mother-tongue most spoken by Masbateῆos basically Bisaya in the city and other municipalities. It’s being different has made us unique among others in our country. The diversity of our language tells the story of the origin of our social and cultural backgrounds. Mother Tongue as ...
  • ICT: A challenge to Every Teacher
                Traditional classroom activities are often only simple demonstration of previously presented facts using the curriculum materials, the textbooks and other printed materials that play an important role in determining what was taught. Information and Communication Technology as part of the new curriculum gives every pupil the ultimate opportunity to ...
  • Education in the Philippines
                Education as a human right has always been anchored to civilization as one indicator of progress in every country. Truly it is wealth of every humankind as their means to better their lives specifically some parents who consider it as their legacies to their children.             As to the present ...