FVPHSTI Leadership Seminar-Workshop (Day 3)

Day 3 (April 25)

On the third and final day of this seminar-workshop, we learned a lot about the Appraisal of the Performance of Teachers and Legal Issues and Cases for Public School Teachers.

During the morning session, our very own Assistant Schools Division Superintendent, Dr. Jenilyn Rose Corpuz reviewed us on the appraisal of the performance of teachers. The topic is very timely since the division is currently conducting the open ranking for all teachers for Master Teacher I and II, and Head Teacher positions. Dr. Corpuz clarified that National Competency-Based Teacher Standards – Teachers Strengths and Needs Assessment (NCBTS –TSNA) is only a self-assessment tool and it is not used as bases for performance assessment. It was the Performance Appraisal System for Teachers (PAST) that was approved to be used to assess the teachers’ performance quantitatively.

Dr. Corpuz on her talk about the domains, strands and indicators of
NCBTS-TSNA tool

Meliton Zurbano, Principal of Polo National High School, discussed about the evaluation of pertinent documents used in ranking for promotions. He told us about the DepEd’s orders and memoranda that must be used as bases for giving points and evaluating the credentials of the candidates. He also talked on how a document is being validated, like face and content validation.

Sir Meliton Zurbano while explaining how pertinent documents
for ranking are being validated

The second part of our training in the afternoon enlightened us on different legal matters and cases about being a public school teacher. Our last but definitely not the least speaker was Atty. Myra Nimfa Solidum Mendieta. She is a Prosecution Officer in the Office of the Ombudsman. She vigorously explained to us the Code of Ethics and even shared some sample cases. She generously shared her expertise through answering some issues of my fellow officers during the open forum.

Atty. Solidum-Mendieta discussing The Code of Ethics for
Government Employees and Officials

Of course, this event will never become successful without the support of the local government who allowed us to use the Convention Center of Valenzuela as our venue and sponsored the food and refreshment for the participants.

Hon. Rexlon Gatchalian, Valenzuela City Mayor,
while giving his inspirational message

Hon. Wesley Gatchalian of Alay-Buhay Party List
during his closing remarks

I personally learned a lot from this seminar-workshop. I hope next year, they will again hold this kind of empowering and transforming learning experience for all faculty club officers.

FVPHSTI Leadership Seminar-Workshop (Day 2)

Day 2 (April 24)

For the morning session, we had three speakers that talked on managing an organization, the ACT NCR Union Collective Negotiation Agreement and conducting meeting through Robert’s Rule of Order and Parliamentary Procedures.

Salome Bulawan of ACT National Secretariat presented her topic on “Pamumuno at Pagpapatakbo ng Organisasyon.” We learned a lot on how to become effective leader of an organization. She revealed some of the wrong conceptions about being a leader (e.g. leaders know it all, can give and provide everything, paternal, dictator or liberal). She also gave the qualities of a “true leader,” which are the following:

•  May layunin na gustong makamit (visionary)
• Hindi palalo at mayabang (humble)  
• Hindi diktador (democrat)
• Palaaral at palasuri (educated and inquisitive)

Salome Bulawan while talking about managing an organization

Joselyn Martinez, Secretary of ACT NCR Council, specified the contents of the Collective Negotiation Agreement composed of the different issues about the rights, privileges and benefits that we should enjoy as public school teachers.

Joselyn Martinez, Secretary of ACT NCR Union while explaining the
Collective Negotiation Agreement

My most favorite topic was about the Robert’s Rule of Order and Parliamentary Procedures. In this topic, Sir Andy Rosales taught us how we can conduct a meaningful meeting that is more organized so that we can maximize the time and become more productive.

Sir Andy Rosales on Robert's Rule of Order and Parliamentary Procedures

The afternoon session was equally filled with a lot of learnings. We welcomed our very own school principal as our speaker, Mrs. Salvacion V. David. Her topic was all about Leadership for Instructional Leaders. I, together with Sir Steve, got the chance to introduce her to the audience. And we supposed that she was happy with it (we actually made the introduction very spectacular, why not… she’s our own school head). She started with a group dynamics wherein we need to define leadership and identify some of its relevant qualities of being a leader. From her talk we learned about bridging leadership, which foster the importance of fellowship among educational leaders and teachers, and school’s internal and external stakeholders (e.g. parents, local officials, non-government and government organizations)  We all appreciate her talk; her experience showed that she was already an embodiment of an excellent leader.  

Ma'am Salvacion David on her talk about leadership
for instructional leaders

The participants with Ma'am David

We also grab the chance to have this picture with her,
we are just so proud that she's our principal :)

FVPHSTI Leadership Seminar-Workshop (Day1)

The Federation of Public High School Teachers successfully held the three-day seminar-workshop for all high school faculty officers in the Division of Valenzuela. The seminar-workshop focused on theme “Transforming the Leadership Paradigm for the High School Faculty Officers in the Division of Valenzuela.” The invited speakers were all great. We learned a lot from legislative agenda for public school teachers, managing an organization, conducting an executive meeting with parliamentary procedures to topics about instructional leadership and legal matters for government employees.

There were so many exciting things that happened that I would like to share with you here but of course I also want to be brief. So, I have decided to tell the most important insights I have learned from this wonderful learning experience as a faculty leader.

Day 1 (April 23)

To be honest, the first day was quite disappointing. The Federation prepared an opening ceremony and expected for the invited guests, but unfortunately they didn’t come. Well, for sure they have their valid reasons and we understand. To fill the gap, the Federation officers conducted an open forum to address some issues that other school faculty officers would like to raise.

The Federation officers during our open forum

In the afternoon session, we were so glad that our first speaker came in the person of Congressman Antonio L. Tinio of Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) – Party List. He talked about the legislative agenda for public school teachers’ benefits and welfare. I was so amazed to hear that the ACT has a lot of proposed bill in the congress like House Bill 245 which is about increasing the minimum salaries for public school teachers to twenty five thousand pesos. Some of the notable proposed laws for the benefit of public school teachers are as follows:

• House Bill 246: Upgrading the Minimum Salary Grade of Public Higher Education Teacher Personnel from Salary Grade 12 to 16
• House Bill 247: Increasing Allowance of Personal Exemption for Individual Taxpayers. This bill aims to increase the personal exemptions to P75, 000
• House Bill 250: An Act Increasing the Personnel Economic Relief Allowance Granted to Government Employees to Four Thousand Pesos and Appropriating Funds Therefor

Cong. Antonio Tinio of ACT Party List

There were still a lot of house bills that Congressman Tinio stipulated but what created a mark on me was his call to participate in a nation wide rally for the salary increase this May 1, so that the government will hear our cry that there is a need for an increase in remuneration for teachers. 

Cong. Tinio with the rest of the participants

Other Instructional System Design Models

Aside from ADDIE, which is the most popular Instructional System Design model used by most instructional designers and educators, we should be aware that there are still some other models that are existing. Although, most of them were based on ADDIE process, these models have unique features that we can maximize to develop an effective course, training design or instructional material.  

Dick and Carey Model

Walter Dick, Lou Carey and James Carey developed this instructional design process way back 1978. This model is systematic in nature. It breaks down the instruction into smaller components. The steps are the following:

1.    Identify the instructional needs and goals

2.    Conduct instructional analysis

3.    Analyze learner characteristics and contexts

4.    Write performance objectives

5.    Develop assessment instruments

6.    Outline your instructional strategy based on the learning objectives

7.    Develop instructional materials

8.    Conduct formative evaluation to identify areas that needs improvement

9.    Conduct summative evaluation to learn about the effectiveness of your training

10. Revise and improve instructional material

Rapid ISD Model

Dave Meier developed this ISD model which is also called as the Accelerated Learning Rapid Instructional Design (RID) Model, Rapid ISD for short. This model is based on the concept that learners learn better from feedback than from lectures or presentations. This also replaced the traditional media-heavy courses with instructional designs wherein learners are in-charge of their own learning with and from each other. There are four phase in RID model:

·         Preparation – Arouse interest and motivate learners by starting goals and removing learners’ barriers

·         Presentation – encounter new knowledge and skills by appealing to all learning styles and incorporating interactive presentations and discovery activities into the learning experience.

·         Practice – Integrate new knowledge and skills by incorporating games, hands-on activities, and skill building practice exercises as well as providing substantial corrective feedback to the learner

·         Performance – allow time to apply the new knowledge and skills and reward the use of these skills.

Seels and Glasgow Model

Barbara Seels and Zita Glasglow developed this ISD model grounded on the premise that instructional design occurs in the context of project management. The benefits of this model are that the team members can come and go as the process evolves. This model works best for very complex projects. The plan establishes roles, tasks, timelines, budgets, checkpoints, and supervisory procedures.

The model is distributed across the three phases of project management:

1.    Needs-analysis management

2.    Instructional design management

3.    Implementation and evaluation management

Under the Need Analysis phase, problem analysis is the prime task; all questions about the required objectives and performances, context and need analysis are addressed.

The second phase includes the development of the material and some formative assessment to immediately address the areas that need improvements or revisions.

The last phase includes the actual implementation of the instructional or training materials. Summative evaluation is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the course, training design or instructional material.

Smith and Ragan Systematic Instructional Design Model

Patricia Smith and Tillman Ragan are the exponents of this model. This model incorporates only the three steps: analysis, strategy development, and evaluation. This model differs from ADDIE in that test items are created during the analysis phase. The emphasis is given in developing specific instructional material or training design for particular type of learning and learners. The benefit of this process is that the instruction is designed to the test items which result in a better focused program.

Leadership Seminar-Workshop

This coming April 23 to 25, we will be attending this Leadership Seminar-Workshop for all high school faculty officers in the division. The theme is "Transforming the Leadership Paradigm for the High School Faculty Officers in the Division of Valenzuela." This event is organized by the Federation of Valenzuela Public High School Teachers Inc., in cooperation with the Division of Valenzuela.

The following are the topics covered in this seminar-workshop:

• Legislative Agenda for Teachers Benefits and Welfare
• Management
• Parliamentary Procedures
• Leadership for Instructional Leaders
• Review on the Appraisal of the Performance of Teachers
• Department of Education Legal Issues and Cases

The official banner that I designed for this event