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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