THRUSTS and INNOVATIONS

JESSA I. CERBITOReporter

MISSION

To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where: Students learn in a child-

friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment

Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner

Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen

Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long learners

VISION

We dream of Filipinoswho passionately love their countryand whose values and competencies enable them to realize their full potentialand contribute meaningfully to building the nation.

As a learner-centered public institution,the Department of Educationcontinuously improves itself to better serve its stakeholders.

Schools must create and sustain a highly educated and innovative workforce and the capacity to

generate and apply new knowledge, supported through

policies and investments in developing human capital,

technological innovation and

entrepreneurial skills.

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INNOVATION?

Innovation is the introduction of new ideas, goods, services,

and practices which are intended to be useful.

(Wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation)

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INNOVATION?

A newly introduced practice or method intended to improve the

current practice. (www.mywhatever.com/cifwriter/content/66/4620.html)

Innovation is: PEOPLE implementing ideas that create

new value. (www.thinksmart.com)

Something cannot be considered innovative unless it is transformational.

Innovation does not occur by accident. It is driven by a system of principles and practices which support and encourage the coupling of systems and creativity to solve problems.

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

1. The Introduction of Alternative Learning Systems (ALS) and TESDA programs

a) people can earn their diplomas more quickly;

b) students can repeat failed courses without the embarrassment of being in a class with younger students;

c) educational opportunities can be provided to people with physical disabilities, those who have jobs during normal school hours, and those living in remote regions

d) education can be offered despite shortage of classrooms, qualified teachers, and instructional materials (especially through e-learning); and

e) students can have access to variety of enrichment courses, and can participate in internships, sports, or work and still graduate with their class.

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

2. Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT)

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

3. Special Education is an educational program or service designed to meet the needs of children with special needs that cannot profit from general or regular education because of disabilities or exceptional disabilities.

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

4. The Improved Emphasis on Extension (Outreach, Community-Oriented Programs)

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

5. The shift to School- basedManagement

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

6. EDUCATION FOR ALL THE PHILIPPINES EFA 2015 PLAN

Universal coverage of out-of-school youths (OSYs) and adults in the provision of basic learning needs; Universal school participation and elimination of dropouts and repetition in first three grades.

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

7. The Drop Out Reduction Program DORP is an intervention program to reduce the high dropout rate and improve learning outcomes in public and private schools of the country, using formal and informal approaches.

Educational Innovations in the Philippines

8. THE K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM

K to 12 program aims to advance competencies of Filipino graduates.

The K to 12 graduate is equipped with the following 21st century skills:

1) Information, media and technology skills;

2) Learning and innovation skills;

3) Effective communication skills and

4) Life and career skills

the K to 12 graduate

“We are entering a new age, an age of knowledge, in which the

key strategic resource necessary for prosperity has become

knowledge itself – educated people, their ideas and innovation, and their

entrepreneurial spirit.” (Bloch, 1988)

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