Basic Education in the Philippines has been experiencing REFORMS over some period of time — from “Governance for Development” in 1991 until this very recent “Enhanced Basic Education Act” of 2013.
Having finished a course in Educational Planning & Fiscal Management & utilizing some “significant terms” and concepts learned throughout the Semester,
#Master of Arts in Educational Management #EDM 505 #Educational Planning & Management
What makes education less exciting is that more often than not, we just keep on talking about FACTS & DETAILS!
When we talk about “planning” in education, as to some current experiences, we just mean another supposedly “pilot-testing” of a recent program which suddenly turns out to be in “abrupt implementation”!
Yes, we’re on our way to Modernization of Times as well as to Global Alignments — but the usual Cycle of Plan-Do-Study-Act which remains to be considered Strategic by Educational Proponents should already be revisited, thus, should be revised & modified!
BUT the sad TRUTH: despite the Planning Process throughout Implementation & Evaluation of a certain Program, ONE CERTAIN PROBLEM still EMERGE!
Stakeholders and Cohorts do not really succeed as they should because of several factors and excuses, aside from another sad truth that not really all, do understand what STRATEGIC QUALITY MANAGEMENT means.
Now, if i’ve got to ask you why we don’t succeed afterall those planning episodes? … then WHY?
Where and how should “planning” begin?
Where and how should “implementation” be triggered?s
What should actually be “evaluated” — for us to mean STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT not only in the field of Education but at a larger range of our ACCOUNTABILITY not only as a teacher — but as God’s Steward?
What will make education exciting is that we should TALK ABOUT US and OURSELVES!You can make that difference wen you're already THERE! but DO NOW while you're still HERE!
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Can we not strive for this?
You are beautiful! You are unique! YOU are YOU!
YET, you might have forgotten to ASERT YOURSELF because you might have had so little confidence in your self.
Over some period of time, there might have been some incidences of feeling neglected and it gave you enough justification to shy away from the world, from other people; shy away from yourself until you’ve just been contented hoping to just blend into the background.
Could you ever imagine when was “that time” you begun feeling worthless?
When was it that you started changing yourself, hoping to just impress the thoughts of others?
Without you realizing, you are actually harming yourself because you’re hoping to improve … when in fact, you’re doubting your very self because you no longer feel that confident to VOICE OUT amidst those times when your thoughts and actions have just been rejected & by-passed. In effect, it gave you the only choice to just close your eyes and shrug your shoulders because you allowed yourself to feel helpless.
You no longer feel great just the way you are because you’ve already forgotten WHO YOU REALLY ARE!
You believed it when people say you’re not worthy; you stopped giving yourself the chance to gain credits despite the many striving times you’ve exerted. You’ve pressured yourself too much because you’ve allowed those chaotic, abrupt-changing systems to disturb your “simple piece of peace”.
You were supposedly to work giving out your BEST for God’s glory in an imperfect world; yet, you keep on justifying that you are “not perfect” — that is why, you’re also justifying “not being able to give your BEST” in every little thing that you do because of what you believe in.
“You can never be perfect?” What does it say about your “self esteem”?
Could you imagine what will happen to “that thing called Tadhana” if everyone of us would take care of this kind of mindset? Destiny — as a predetermined course of events may be conceived as a predetermined future. What lies in the future would always depend upon WHAT WE DO TODAY!
Many of us would tend to complain about several “turn out of situations which doesn’t give us any choice!” — that is why we keep on “piercing our heart” with that arrow which we keep on pointing to other direction other than our own SELF!
If there should be some "PIECE OF PEACE" that we should bring to our future not only as a teacher but as a Child of God,
what do you think would that be?
The way we look at things are affected by the way we feel! … Would you believe so?
‘Wanna try if such contention could be true?
What catches your attention first would determine how you feel at the moment!
Take a look at this picture … what then did you first see?; what element captured your attention at your first glance? … and doing some self-check of how you feel, what does your choice indicate?
Sometimes, we just can’t find enough motivation to find a spot for whatever emotion there is deep within us — thus, we need to identify: are we filled or drained? happy or sad? up or down? inspired or tired?
We may need to look around and find some sure identification of our state of emotion. Why? … because the way we feel would always affect the way we deal with others. Our perspectives would more often than not be influenced by the kind of feeling that we have — and on the other hand, our emotion would moreso determine up to what extent we would work on the fulfilment of our Philosophy, Vision and Mission.
At a quite dangerous side, our undefined emotions may stagnate our supposedly healthy perception of each child — to the point that we may misinterpret what we just see instead of appreciate and look into what we do not see.
What then is there to realize for us to be able to give the best that we could?
What then should we do to build a well-founded school for our future generation?
Yes #DearPopeFrancis, I am Personally ONE WITH YOU!
Please read: Mark 1: 14-2
IaMPOSSIBLE!
17Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
18 Then they abandoned their nets and followed him.
… sana ganito din ang response ng mga tinatawag para sumama at makinig!
Sa totoong buhay kasi, HINDI MADALIng magyaya ng mga taong pwedeng maki-isa sayo –
not evenwithin the family – to be with you in the same net!
Despite some changing of minds & discouragements against my desire TO BE THERE in Luneta Park-Quirino Grandstand last Sunday, the ONLY CHOICE I HAD was to tell myself: “I AM POSSIBLE!” … until all by myself @ past 3am, I had to walk-through the re-routes along Roxas Boulevard back to Maria Orosa then to Taft Avenue for main entrance and stand-still among the approximately 6M people who desired to have a PERSONAL ENCOUNTER with our Dear Pope Francis for the concluding part of His Pastoral Journey. I was supposed to meet-up my younger sister & bro in law amidst that emerging sea of believers but network signal was cut-off just before we succeeded being together in one quadrant.
Sa totoong buhay, scenarios like these may discourage us. Of course, who would want to be alone in the middle of such a very big crowd, and who would boldly wait for hours while you’re nowhere to hide from the non-stop rain which didn’t give you the choice to remain seated for you’ll get so wet all over? And so true, there may be some speck of wanting to just give up & just go back home to your family – BUT THEN NO! – for in His message during the Meeting with Families in MOA Arena, our Holy Father urged that since there are many threats within the family:
“We must rise from our slumber! We must get up and act!”
He wants a sheep against the wolves that are approaching, particularly our tendency to get trapped in materialism which is destructive of family life. True enough, we may unawaringly experience “isolation and divisions” within our famiy; and sometimes, human and vulnerable as we are, we may just feel too weak to just “let things be”!
BUT THEN AGAIN NO! Lolo Kiko said that “The future passes from the family” & today’s gospel could be an affirmation of our responsibility that the very first place “to fish” is within our family. However, if we find it difficult, there’s got to be somebody to take the initiative to make the family protected against ideological colonization which may eventually separate us.
Reason may not understand what the heart perceives. YES, I “persisted” to be there not to make history with the 6M crowd with “waterproof faith” but to LISTEN UPCLOSE to God’s message through His Holiness & “offer my presence from dawn to sunset as an ounce of sacrifice for my family’s intentions” – for in my heart 15“This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” #sunset
Published in Light of Jesus’ “The Feast Bulletin CM Binan”
Cor Dei 03. 25 January 2015, Mark 1: 14-20, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Series: BOLD! Dare To Ask God for The Impossible, Talk 2: Persistence
Waterproof Faith! by Gail Montero@TheFeastBulletin.
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So much has been told about the Philippine Planning Experiences during the 1st Development Decade in the 3rd World — this is 99.9% sure I SUPPOSE, in almost all of the Graduate Classes for Masters & Doctorate Degrees from which most of the Stakeholders/Public Administrators in our Educational System commenced.
YET, why is it that UNITIL such a time as NOW, DEVELOPMENT is STILL LIMITED?
EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, as generally assumed is preparing the Education System to address what lies ahead — so as to achieve both short-&-long-term goals set by educational planners. The Introduction of Public Administration brought about various opportunities, expansion, mobilization of resources and a lot more attempts for TRANSFORMATION.
In the paper entitled “The Challenges to the Futures of Public Administration Education” presented by Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, NCPAG, UP Diliman and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UP Open University at the 2012 International Conference on “Public Administration and Governance: Tradition and Transformation” held at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in June 2012, traces of transformation were revisited:
“Public Administration (PA) or the field of study and practice (Waldo 1955) intended to professionalize public practice, address development problems, reform societies, foster democracy and serve public interest and welfare, has undergone a number of transformations, shifts, movements and streams. In terms of sets of convergent concepts and approaches in the teaching, research and practice of Public Administration, which are dominant at particular periods, Carino (2008) mentioned four streams navigated by the discipline. These are: Traditional Public Administration (TPA), Development Administration (DevAd), New Public Administration (New PA), and Public Administration and Governance (PAG).
Above-mentioned successive shifts in concepts may have been regarded significant for we are currently experiencing “interrelated developments” [Mendoza, 2012] which include:
1) The growth of transnational education (TNE) and the corollary advocacies for cross-border universal education, knowledge co-creation and sharing (e.g., education for all by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO, and open educational resources or OER); and
2) The K-12 and moves toward international standardization.
However, considering for one, the commitment of Education For All [EFA] to dramatically expand educational opportunities for children, youth and adults by 2015 which, according to UNESCO 2013 Education For All Global Monitoring Report [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/reports/] they will not realise , PLUS the current sudden implementation of the “K-12 Curriculum” which is yet unapproved & suspension of which is being sought by the Senate [http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/07/23/1349322/suspension-k-12-program-sought], Educational System & Administration may really be considered “at high risk” of excessive quantitative reinventions & orientations; over-centralisation of those who are in position within their term of service and to global and international collaborations, weakness in implementation and lack of evaluation aside from the fact that some stakeholders have just “embraced everything” without really looking into more important matters at hand — or if they do, they might at all be too hesitant to breakthrough “some steady walls”.
“Transnational education, open educational resources and K-12 are movements and norms that navigated across the globe and reached national borders. Depending on how we embrace them and value them as good or bad, would dictate the shape, structure and approaches of our ways of life, and in this case, our Public Administration.
— Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UP Open University
True, “It should not always be a shot from the outside!” [Mendoza, 2012]
We may have explored vast opportunities of collaborating with all sorts of transformation in our Educational System where we actually may have experienced different SEASONS of LIFE while along the way we’ve just allowed ourselves to get swayed by all sorts of weather and its various elements, some of which, we may have missed & did not recognise; and some, we’ve even misinterpreted — but HAVE WE REALLY IDENTIFIED OUR SIGNIFICANCE — the part we played?
It all boils down to ONE SIGNIFICANT SECRET!
The Weakness in our Educational System is not really in Implementation per se |pəː ˈseɪ| !
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS — OUR ANSWER:
how much PLANNING have you done in your life?
Have you really PLANNED ENOUGH for yourSELF?
We could never do enough for others if we cannot even IMPLEMENT “PERSONAL” PLANNING & ADMINISTRATION!
SO, what are the things that you want to: KEEP, DROP & CHANGE [Trongco, 2013] in 2015?
Believe that this time YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!
Be that development that the 3rd World needs to “come up with something out of nothing or whatever is left”!
Trivia: Four Worlds
After World War II the world split into two large geopolitical blocs and spheres of influence with contrary views on government and the politically correct society:
1 – The bloc of democratic-industrial countries within the American influence sphere, the “First World”.
2 – The Eastern bloc of the communist-socialist states, the “Second World”.
3 – The remaining three-quarters of the world’s population, states not aligned with either bloc were regarded as the “Third World.”
4 – The term “Fourth World”, coined in the early 1970s by Shuswap Chief George Manuel, refers to widely unknown nations (cultural entities) of indigenous peoples, “First Nations” living within or across national state boundaries.
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Would you mind taking into consideration that it would take … NOT THE BEST — rather an “influential teacher”to make THE LEARNER LOVE “LEARNING”?
From SIMPLE TO COMPLEX, Psychological Foundation of Education suggests that there is the need to look-into THE LEARNER all throughout his levels of development from Infancy to Old-Age.
Probing into the fulfillment of his Biological & Physiological needs, The Learner should be provided various amounts of experiences to help him reach a certain level wherein he should be able to perform some developmental tasks until Maturation is attained.
Although development could naturally be sequential/chronological, the rate of improvement could possibly be different in every individual due to Heredity and Environment — which brings about INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.
However, despite such disparities, each Learner is naturally endowed with Positive Attitude such as: Curiosity, Persistence & Responsibility coupled with their “innate” Ability, Aptitude, Attitude & Interest.
Danger is … when “The Teacher” is not equipped with some amount of CREATIVITY to address certain difficult episodes — just because he did not take time to take into consideration his students’ individual characteristics and differences in developmental levels.
As I’ve previously conceptualized, “Not many would consider looking at the learner and its kind before going through the many strategies which a teacher can utilize.” Learning who the Learner Is”, should be an integral factor to consider for a teacher to succeed in the kind of experience he could create in each of his Learner! https://plus.google.com/111650383278180869270/posts/XCUL6BsHPLv
Thus, we should, in one way or the other, help ourselves become “influential” by “pondering-on” these:
Teachers should be the first “learners” — pondering on concepts like these!
How would you “influence” The Learner” NOT TO HATE SCHOOL?
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