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DepEd Sarangani eyes alignment to National QMS

Aiming to improve the quality of service it provides to its clientele, DepEd Sarangani gathered its key personnel for a two-day refresher on February 23 and 24 at Venue 88 Convention Center, General Santos City, on the different modules of the National Quality Management System. Nerissa Alfafara, CESE, OIC-Assistant Schools Division Superintendent emphasized the importance of learning about and aligning to the principles of QMS, saying that it is key to meeting the standards of ISO 9001:2015, which is the gold standard in assessing the quality of services offered by an organization. “We have already started our virtual orientations last year, but we want everybody to have a clearer understanding of the QMS principles. That is why we are having this face-to-face review,” she said. The roster of speakers include the QMS leaders from the DepEd Regional Office, including the Chief of the Quality Assurance Division Luz Lalli Ferrer, Supervision Administrative Officer Kathrine Lotilla, and C...

Tokawal NHS brings e-Learning closer to the community

It has been a productive Saturday for the LR on WHEeLS team as they start the field testing of the new iteration of the project. Now installed in over 60 schools in the Province, the LR on WHEeLS or Learning Resources on WiFi Hub for Expanded e-Learning in Sarangani continues to engage more learners by bringing it closer to the community. At Tokawal National High School, the school premises and the households around the Barangay Hall are already connected to the LR on WHEeLS network and the learners are already enjoying the benefits of online learning without having to pay for an internet connection. With a few more remote communities still beyond the reach of the LR on WHEeLS network, the school decided to come up with a new project that utilizes the school's motorized vehicle.   Aptly named "Chariot of Knowledge," the project comprising a server, a router, an access point antenna, and at least 15 tablets will be going around the community to provide an e-Learning experi...

JLCNTS, DTI ink Shared Service Facilities MOA

In order to support their thriving sinamak production, the Department of Trade and Industry Sarangani, inked an agreement with James L. Chiongbian National Trade School for Shared Services Facilities (SSF). The SSF is a project of DTI that provides micro, small, and medium enterprises like the JLCNTS Teachers Association equipment to enhance their production rate.  JLCNTS received a package consisting vinegar acetator kit, industry grade blenders and stove, and other materials, which will reduce the length of sinamak or spiced vinegar production from one month to just two weeks.  Schools Division Superintendent Gildo G. Mosqueda, CEO VI, expressed support to the program, saying that this project will greatly benefit the learners in food processing. "Not only that, our learners can also benefit from the proposed Pasalubong Center. It can be managed by our learners as part of their training in entrepreneurship," Mosqueda added.  The sinamak production serves as ...

AlSci researchers bag championship in national tilt

Another research team from Alabel National Science High School bagged yet another award, this time from the University of the Philippines-ALCHEMES Research Fair. The team composed of Ernest Gabonada, Trisha Belle Pactes, and Francine Sanchez bested 29 other schools from all over the country in the applied science category. From all the finalists, the roster was cut down to five, and then, in the championship round, the research team from AlSci went head-to-head against the team from Philippines Science High School CALABARZON Region Campus, where they emerged as the champion, and the people's choice as well. The research presented by the team is an application of machine learning, which is a subset of artificial intelligence, to the early detection of plant diseases. Entitled Project PLANTdemic - Automatic, Rapid, and Early Detection of Plant Disease Using Deep Learning, the research involves the use of a browser-based application that enables users to identify early signs of plant ...

Sarangani's reading program goes digital

Powered by LR on WHEeLS, Sarangani's reading program is going digital! In addition to regular lessons based on the most essential learning competencies, reading materials and interactive activities will soon be included in the LR on WHEeLS learning management system.  "Not only does LR on WHEeLS provide an opportunity for remedial reading for our learners, it also allows our teachers to upgrade their skills and to innovate," John Jerson Constantino, Alternate Reading Coordinator said.  "The LR on WHEeLS platform is perfect for our situation nowadays. This is a welcome addition to our Read@Home tutorials. We now have a mechanism to distribute our quality-assured materials in an interactive way even in areas where there is no internet connection," he added.  After the orientation and workshop conducted on January 24 at Big Ben Restaurant, General Santos City, content developers will continue digitizing the reading materials, which will then be subjecte...

DepEd Sarangani orients schoolheads and teachers on Digital ELLN courseware

"We are counting on your commitment, our dear school heads, to improve the learning performance especially of our K-to-3 learners," Curriculum Implementation Division Chief Donna S. Panes challenged the school heads who were present during the virtual orientation on the courseware on Early Language, Literacy and Numeracy or Digital ELLN, January 24, to make sure that teachers in the K-to-3 levels should learn the necessary strategies and pedagogies to effectively integrate literacy and numeracy in all learning areas. "To accomplish this," she said, "the ELLN modules should be discussed in the school learning action cell." She also explained that the teaching demonstration is not enough to measure the effectiveness of the teachers as distance learning modalities  are currently employed. She suggests that if the situation permits, teachers should conduct home visitation. Last week, K-to-3 teachers were also oriented on the Digital ELLN using the ...

Alabel 3 District forges partnership with 88.5 i-CARE FM radio

Elementary Schools in Alabel 3 District are collaborating with 88.5 iCare FM Radio that is based at Alegria National High School for the broadcasting of their RBI lessons. Teachers like Rowena Biene of Upper Alabel Elementary School record their radio-based instruction lessons and upload the audio files to a shared Google Drive for iCare FM to air during their designated time slots. "Each school is assigned a subject area. Our school is assigned to develop RBI lessons in Science," Biene said. The partnership was initiated by District Supervisor Fredgie Pasco upon learning that the radio broadcast of iCare FM reaches most of the areas in Alabel 3 district. Andres Mataganas, school head of Alegria NHS, explained that the schools whose lessons are aired via iCare FM have committed to augment expenses on electricity in return. Mataganas also added that plans to increase the range of the broadcast coverage as well as the introduction of live streaming via Facebook are underway in ...