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Central Visayas schools ready for K to 12 By Ferliza C. Contratista
Dr. Luz Jandayan, Department of Education 7 Curriculum and Learning Management Division Chief, recently said that all the schools under the 19 school divisions in Central Visayas are ready for the K to 12 flagship strategy.
Jandayan was among the guests of the recent Mindshare session conducted CEBU CITY (PIA)--Schools in the by Cebu Coalition for Better Education entire Central Visayas are now ready for (CBE) at the Cebu Normal University (CNU) the full swing implementation of K to 12 participated in by more than 50 education program. stakeholders. “When the first batch of K to 12 will graduate in the year 2018, they will already have an option to pursue a college degree or practice and earn for awhile from the learned skills,” Jandayan said. She said that instructional materials are already distributed in all schools under the 19 divisions of Region 7 for grades 1 and 7 while for grades 2 and 8, the materials are already in its Pre-Bid stage as of May 20. She said they had also conducted sufficient training to all public school teachers and are still scheduling several more on a “per-need” basis or as the implementation flows through. For this year, they had just concluded the trainings of 4,807 grade 2 public school teachers and 6,878 grade 8 Empowering women in Siquijor : A member of the Siquijor Womens Association for a Better teachers. It added up to the Environment (SWABE) extracts oil from locally available herbs during the training on herbal oil extraction and massage oil formulation conducted by the DOST-Provincial Science and 5,139 grade 1 teachers and 2,619 from grade 7. Technology Center last June 3, 2013 at San Antonio, Siquijor. (RAC/MEP-DOST Siquijor) For this week, Jandayan said they are scheduled to train grades 2 and 8 teachers from the By Amorganda A. Saludar private schools. Other than DepEd, Cebu City (PIA) -- Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI), in partnership with Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. there were also guests from (CBSI), recently organized a seminar-workshop geared towards heritage promotion. Dubbed "Reporting Heritage for Bloggers," the seminar-workshop held May 25 trained Cebuano bloggers how the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority to report and blog about heritage subjects. (Tesda). The activity also aimed at encouraging Cebuano bloggers to post more about Cebu’s cultural scene. Mindshare is a mini The event also prepared bloggers on how to blog about events that showcased Cebu’s heritage like the ‘Gabii fora for CBE members to sa Kabilin’ or Night of Heritage last May 31. Gabii sa Kabilin (Night of Heritage) is an annual program of RAFI executed in coordination with RAFI’s partner be updated on the recent techniques and advances in museums and heritage sites every last Friday of May. Dr. Jocelyn Gerra, executive director of RAFI's Culture and Heritage unit, stressed that information, particularly line with education. It is under the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation. on history and culture, should not be hoarded in educational institutions alone. “We should free up information. We should know who we are. This is where bloggers can come in,” Gerra (rmn/FCC/PIA-CEBU) said.
Blogging workshop for heritage held in Cebu
Joselity Costas, one of the resource speakers of the seminar-workshop and at the same time president of Hambin, a Cebuano heritage advocacy group, observed that only a few local blogs tackle or specialize in heritage since such niche requires time and effort, especially in obtaining credible and reliable information. Costas said blogging and social media are effective tools to promote cultural heritage to a larger audience, and as channels for people to understand, experience, and get engaged in heritage. “Blogging and social media promote a participatory culture where individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests,” Costas said. He added that social media provides social practices of collection, representation, and communication, giving rise to new ways of understanding and experiencing heritage. (rmn/AYS/PIA 7/RAFI)
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