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The Benitez Hall inside the Teachers Camp Baguio City was filled with Cheers of delegates from the delegates from Sarangani Division as they bagged several recognitions at the DepEd EdTech Awards 2022, June 22. DepEd Sarangani took home the honor as the Most Outstanding Division Office for DepEd TV due to the support it provided in the production and dissemination of DepEd TV episodes in various teaching modalities. "We will use this recognition to continue to strive to provide high-quality education through technology to Sarangan students, especially those in last mile schools," said Curriculum Implementation Division Chief Donna S. Panes in receiving the award. The Sarangani division's contribution to DepEd TV was noted due to its innovation LRonWHEeLS or Learning Resources on WiFi Hub for Expanded e-Learning in Sarangani, where DepEd TV episodes are used as learning tools, making them even more interactive with the help of H5P technology. LRonWHEeLS was also recognized...

Glan School of Arts and Trades bagged the 2021 Brigada Eskwela Best Implementing School in the Secondary Mega Schools category during the 2021 National Brigada Eskwela Awards held at the Iloilo Convention Center, Iloilo City yesterday.  Josie Teofila Quijano, Vocational School Administrator 2 of GSAT received the award together with Regional Director Carlito D. Rocafort, CESO IV, Senior Education Program Specialist, and Jay Dubalan of the Social Mobilization and Networking section.  In addition, Francisco A. Cagang Integrated  School received a special award for Best Home Learning Space and Malapatan National High for Best Brigada Eskwela Collaboration at the School District.  Moreover, Regional Special Awards are also in store for Datu Pangolima Integrated School for ALIVE Implementing Schools, Datal Basak IP School for IPED Implementing Schools, and Leopoldo D. Dacera Integrated School for schools in geographically isolated and d...

Making e-Learning Possible in Last Mile Schools in the Country The innovation that DepEd Sarangani developed during the pandemic will soon be replicated in schools around the country, thus, bringing e-learning within the reach of more learners nationwide. Coming from a place that actually lacks in the information technology department, LRonWHEeLS proves that scarcity, indeed, is the mother of invention, and having been developed during the pandemic when learning delivery was greatly challenged, it affirms that difficult times inspire people to make a difference. An alternative to printed modules When President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a national lockdown to take effect on March 15, 2022, everything changed. It compelled the Department of Education to lay down plans for distance learning. However, infrastructure for online learning in the majority of public schools, printed modular distance learning was the go-to modality. Thinking of ways to help teachers in the delivery of modules to t...

 "Let us make it more harmonized and not an additional burden." Dir. Wilfredo Cabral, OIC of the Office of the Undersecretary for Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development explained the necessity of changes in the policy of the School-Based Management (SBM) implementation. In the 4th Regional Management Committee meeting of DepEd Region XII held today in Libungan, North Cotabato, Cabral said that the SBM should not just be a collection of MOVs. "It must be felt," he said. "We are revising the SBM so we can revitalize the intent of RA 9155" he added. The intent, according to him, is decentralization. Cabral also explained that to make this happen, there needs to be a strengthening of the School Governance Council (SGC). In addition, Cabral announced that there also policy changes in the recruitment, selection, and   placement process, which involves changing the DepEd Merit Selection Plan to make it more responsive to the changing needs...

The flame of volunteerism keeps on blazing for the Read-at-Home program as DepEd Sarangani and Mindanao State University College of Education sign a memorandum of understanding for the deployment of 41 Bachelor in Elementary Education students as volunteer tutors. Said students shall be serving Malungon Central Elementary School, Alabel Central Integrated SPED Center, Policarpio H. Millona Integrated School, Jose Ah Young Integrated School, Maasim Central Elementary School and Fermin Fuster Elementary School.        Photos by Jonathan Agreda Here are the roles and responsibilities of the volunteer tutor as well as the conditions that they must meet: Living in the Municipality or the community where the school is located Cooperate with the assigned teacher facilitator Handle maximum of 5 learners only. Submit reports needed to the Facilitating Teacher. Prepare daily journal on the experiences of being a student-teacher. Prepare and assist cooperating teacher in the pr...

The hiring process for teaching positions in DepEd Sarangani continues as applicants participate in interviews and teaching demonstrations conducted in the different municipalities. Pursuant to the Division Memorandum 44 series of 2022, which sets the guidelines for the recruitment, selection and placement of personnel for kindergarten, elementary, junior high school, and senior high school teaching positions for the school year 2022-2023, the School Screening Committees, Division Sub-Selection Committees, and Division Selection Committee have started the verification of documents, conduct of interviews, and rating of the applicants’ teaching demonstrations. Last February 8, 2022, the personnel unit led by Rehanee Paidumama-Sambuto, AO IV, conducted a virtual orientation of all applicants. For the whole month of March, interviews and teaching demonstrations were conducted in different districts, which were facilitated by the Division Sub-Selection Committees. Sambuto said that unlike i...

Head of ICTS-EdTech Mark Anthony Sy challenged the current concept of a computer laboratory when he talked about the Digital Rise Program during the opening program of the Training and Upskilling of Teachers on “LR on WHEeLS” and Enhancement of Content in the LMS, yesterday. Showing a photo of a usual computer laboratory in a Philippine public school, he said, “Ganyan ang ating concept [ng computer laboratory], pero binasag ‘yan ng pandemya.” He added that computer laboratories in schools should be able to provide an opportunity for learners to learn using distance learning modalities. “With the help of our innovative ITO in Sarangani, it [was] all made possible,” he added. Sy was referring to the LR on WHEeLS or Learning Resources on WiFi Hub for Expanded e-Learning in Sarangani, which was developed by the Division Information Technology Officer of DepEd Sarangani, Roy J. Detoyato. The LR on WHEeLS is a learning management system that provides learners with an online learning experie...