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Ilocos Norte education summit eyes schools’ transformation for millennials

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By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter

LAOAG CITY—The Department of Education in Ilocos Norte hosted the first of a kind education transformation summit here urging education stakeholders to adopt new teaching-learning processes for millennials.

To keep pace with the ever-changing technology, traditional classroom discussions which teachers often monopolize with chalk and blackboard are no longer the norm, hence, the education curriculum needs re-engineering to align with the needs of present-day learners.

With this new focus, Ilocos Norte schools’ division superintendent Vilma Eda led the conduct of a whole-day education transformation summit, presenting the strengths and weaknesses of the schools in Ilocos Norte and to come up with strategies on how to stay relevant for the children’s future.

Barely a year since Ms. Eda took over as division superintendent, the Ilocos Norte division successfully passed the tedious process of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification.

The ISO standards require an organization to enhance customer satisfaction through effective and efficient application of its system and processes.

Of the more than 200 DepEd schools divisions in the country, Ilocos Norte is the first division in Region 1 to earn ISO-certification.

The schools division received the ISO 90001:2015 certification during the said summit at the Plaza del Norte Hotel and Convention Center.

The awarding served one of the highlights of the education transformation summit,  attended by around 1,400 participants composed of DepEd officials and employees from the different primary and secondary schools of the province, Parent Teacher Associations, local government units and other non-government organizations including DepEd Undersecretaries Annalyn Sevilla for Finance Budget and Performance Monitoring ; and Lorna Dig Dino  for Curriculum and Instruction who served as resource speakers in the plenary sessions.

According to Ms. Eda, DepEd-Ilocos Norte continuous to implement the whole brain literacy system or self-mastery among its teaching and non-teaching personnel. Said training focuses on the seven domains of self-mastery such as to think, communicate, intuit, feel, do, lead and learning to be to improve oneself.

Ms. Eda said there are 2,000 more employees that are awaiting training under this self-mastery training.

Aside from the conduct of series of leadership trainings and improvement of offices and classrooms conducive for a healthy environment and workforce, the DepEd Ilocos Norte is also currently implementing its Information and Communication Technology program focusing on the needs of learners.

In Lanao school in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Ms. Eda reported kinder to grade 3 pupils can now utilize at least four sets of robots there. She hopes that soon, all other schools in Ilocos Norte will integrate robotics in the curriculum for elementary grades.

“In small things that we do, we should work towards this aspiration. Let us work together and constantly innovate so that we can always come out with better ways to serve our stakeholders,” said Ms. Eda as she underscored transformation is not free and it needs a lot of hard work to make it happen.

For her part, DepEd regional director Alma Ruby Torio lauded the Division of Ilocos Norte for being one of the very few schools divisions in the country with International Standards Organization (ISO) certification.

“It is a coveted achievement and I congratulate the leadership of the INSDO for your hard work,” said Ms. Torio.

She likewise urged the participants to nurture children and help them survive the “volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world”.

“We can’t undermine the presence of digital world. We need to integrate and transform our education. Let us collaborate with one another,” Ms. Torio said as she underscored, “Teachers, listen to your learners, parents and community and to school heads, listen to your teachers.”

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