Education

Making the School an Effective Community:The Support Staff, Students & Progress Report, and School Climate

Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 14:08 by Anonymous
School managers, teachers, staff, students, parents and the rest of the people involved in learning institution should collaboratively work as a team to advocate the dimensions and indicators of a healthy school climate.           
            Teachers for instance, in striving to create a culture of excellence in school, should collectively search for ways to become more effective mentors, who value changing their own knowledge base and skills, and who seek change to accomplish improvement.  As Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline (1990) promoted, a work environment must be one where employees engaged as teams, developing a shared vision to guide their work, operating collaboratively to produce a better product, and evaluating their output ...

5 Basic Etiquette Tips in Conducting Surveys

Posted Thu, 09/15/2011 - 21:54 by admin
1. Define the survey's purpose

There’s nothing wrong in telling the respondents the purpose of the research or survey.

2. Keep it short as much as possible
Keep survey respondents in the loop along the way by telling them up front how long the survey might take. Time is a top complaint among people who have taken surveys, so avoid unnecessary conversations ...

 

46 Important Information about PCER

Posted Fri, 09/09/2011 - 16:48 by admin

THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 46, President Joseph Ejercito Estrada on December 7, 1998 establishedthe multisectoral Presidential Commission on Educational Reform (PCER) that would craft a "budget feasible" program to address the concerns in equipping  Filipinos with world class education.
            "Without world class education, we Filipinos will remain a nation of low cost wage earners and outcasts from the highly competitive global labor market," Estrada explained.
            The following are some of the information we need to know about PCER ...

Educational Administration as a Process of Management

Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 17:33 by admin
Meaning of management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

          Since organizations can be viewed as systems, management can also be defined as human action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view opens the opportunity to 'manage' oneself, a pre-requisite to attempting to manage others ...


Legal Cases in Education: Some Samples

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 11:28 by admin
THE FOLLOWING ARE HYPOTHETICAL AND FICTIONAL CASES and the decisions rendered for each case are, of course, ‘unofficial’ and subject to scrutiny by legal experts. Nonetheless, the article somehow gives educational managers and administrators a glimpse on how to address school problems that involve legality.

Case #1: Germany
Facts:
ALEXANDER PARIJS, a skilled Belgian professor, was accepted to teach General Knowledge in Grundschule Schulkamp, a primary school in Hamburg, Germany. Parijs, being a former seminarian who got his MA from Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, is a devoted Christian. Because of his great religious dedication, he made it a ‘classroom rule’ for his students to utter Catholic prayers before and after his classes as practiced in his alma mater. He even gave away pieces of crucifix which his students must wear at least during their classes.
Eventually, this matter became known to the parents of his students and they reported to the school administration insisting that Parijs must be sanctioned because his acts can be classified as gross violation of the “separation of church and state doctrine” which was guaranteed by the Constitution of Germany ...
 

18 Qualities of a Good Teacher

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 11:22 by admin
1. Calmness
Being good at helping students de-stress or be relaxed for learning to take place.
 
2. Compassion for students
Caring about students as individuals and wanting to help them. Willing to speak up for them to other people, if need be.

3. Confidence
Believing in oneself despite setbacks and not letting problems get him/her upset.
 
4. Creativity
Being imaginative in using various methods in teaching to make learning fun.
 
5. Dedication to excellence
Wanting the best from students and oneself, not settling for mediocrity ...
 

Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL): Some Strenghts

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 11:02 by admin
OBTL is a student-centered learning philosophy that focuses on empirically measuring student performance, which are called outcomes as opposed to traditional learning’s emphasis on resources or inputs.  Like in Competency-Based Education, it requires students to demonstrate that they have learned the required skills and content. The following are some of its strengths:

Self-evaluative
The students’ outputs measure the students’ performance as well as the teachers’ effectiveness and the deficiency in curriculum which would require corrective actions.

Systematic

It requires identification of not only what students are supposed to learn but also how and to what standard. (What do I intend my students to be able to do after my teaching that they couldn’t do before, and to what standard?) ...

School Administration: Some Questions and Answers

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 10:54 by admin
Question:
1. In an instance when the principal is out with all the staff to attend to an important activity called by the superior, to whom do you leave the school/office? Why?

Answer:
THE SCHOOL could be entrusted to the Assistant Principal or anybody next in line. If the principal has no assistant and there is no clear next in line in the roster, a competent substitute (OIC) could be chosen and assigned while the principal is out. The substitute may come from the faculty or from outside the school—provided that he/she is capable and knowledgeable in holding the temporarily vacant position. (For more qualities to consider in looking for a substitute, please see answer in question number 2 ...
 

Proposed Syllabus: A Sample

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 10:49 by admin
I. COURSE CODE:
ED.D. 101

II. COURSE TITLE:
ANTHROPOLOGICAL and SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES in EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

III. COURSE CREDIT:                     3 units

IV. PRE-REQUISITE/S:                  none

V. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
            This subject is a study of the various Anthropological and Sociological viewpoints in managing educational systems and institutions. As suggested by its course title, this course presents a number of anthropological and sociological concerns and foundations which should be taken into account by educational managers to become effective and dynamic. This field of study also attempts to apply to educational management the well known Anthropological and Sociological findings  and theories as this subject explains the effects in learning of different Anthropological and Sociological factors ...
 

Understanding by Design (UBD): Some Strengths

Posted Sat, 05/21/2011 - 10:37 by admin
UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN is a tool for educational planning focused on "teaching for understanding". It emphasizes on "backward design" or the method of identifying the outcomes first to design the curriculum, performance assessments, and classroom instruction ...
 
Strengths:
Student-centered
It assesses the students’ ability before planning for the appropriate materials and activities. It enables students to have a better understanding of the lessons.

Makes learning interesting and multi-dimensional
It helps the students to practice the six facets of understanding—to explain, interpret, apply, have perspective, empathize, and have self-knowledge about a given topic. The approach also aims to make learning more focused, engaging, coherent, effective, and rich in context ...
 
Provides a better plan of curriculum
Many pertinent factors are considered before designing the curriculum. It carefully determines students’ ability that teaching will be effective and a good student learning is provided ...
 
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