The Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc.(TYKFI), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) helped schools in Ilocos Sur and Nueva Vizcaya prepare for school year 2013-2014 via a three-day training and planning for the Enhancement of the Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) and the School Improvement Plan (SIP).
    | Conducted by TYKFI representatives former DepEd Undersecretary Dr. Yolanda Quijano and Ms. Zen Dimalanta, participants included district supervisors and school heads. Resource speakers also from DepEd included Rowena dela Cruz, OPS-DepED, Pasig City; Corazon Laquingan, OIC–Planning Office, DepED Region I; and Ma. Theresa F. Tumayao, Planning Officer, DepED Region II. TYKFI appreciates the urgency to support education programs by teaching and empowering school planners and district supervisors on how to strategize and prioritize their needs. AIP 3 was taught before the start of the school year to enable review and adjustments on backlogs for the following year. In Vigan, Ilocos Sur where the training workshop was held, participants were guided on setting their individual, unique targets and strategies as well as identifying their priority areas of improvement for the AIP 3 in preparation for the school year. The Foundation specifically identified the need to alleviate participating schools of Ilocos Sur of negative internal and external factors by planning well for their schools with the assistance of experts in the field and several DepEd officials. At the outset, participants identified key terms they associate and understand to be part of School Based Managament (SBM), which showed shared governance, decentralize, shared vision, RA9155, child friendly, stakeholders, innovation, fiscal management, physical facilities, avoiding delinquency, good community linkage, and results oriented as top-of-mind-awareness terms. According to some participants in Ilocos Sur, compared to past trainings in planning and evaluation, they found it easier to assimilate the concepts because they were taught in a more actual and practical way. Some pointed out the continued need for the stakeholders and school managers to be part of their team effort in order to help identify which are the actual priority areas of improvement. Gratitude was expressed for the opportunity to meet other school managers so that together they were able to compare best practices and learn from one another. Reactors, on the other hand, commented on the need to identify desired outcomes, in particular performance indicators as well as the want for focus on delivery of quality curriculum and overall broadstroke approach. SWOT analysis and other tools leading to SWOT are also recommended for the participants. The Sisters of Mary School Girlstown, which had five participants from Cavite and Cebu campuses, was commended on having student teachers although comparisons with the other participants’ schools may be limited by a differing curriculum in this private sector school. Participants in Ilocos Sur, after the intense training and planning session, presented a commitment statement as follow: “We, the 68 selected participants to the 3-day National Training Workshop on RIP/SIP development, sincerely commit ourselves to uplift the quality education through the knowledge, skills and the learned insights to translate into a well-crafted and co-owned RIP and SIP: To lead, empower and to draw support from our valued stakeholders so that our vision-mission be fully achieved; and To fully commit ourselves to do the tasks entrusted to us as light bringers to illuminate the society and to truly build an educated citizenry bringing quality life through quality education. So help us God.” Dr. Marino Baytec, DepEd Division Superintendent of Ilocos Sur, gave a concluding message that encouraged participants and emphasized that “they should not only remember to follow their plans at all times but more importantly to strive for the better what their plans could achieve”. This is done through the technique of MEPA (monitoring, evaluation, planning, and adjustment) where school managers will have to adjust and implement those adjustments to get higher results. District Supervisor of Sta Cruz Buenafe Medrano noted that she received vital knowledge on capacity building and management, and she feels more confident handling the work of the AIP/SIP. Similarly, Novelita Novida, school head of Cubcubbuat Elementary School from Candon City Division, expressed gratitude “for a moving, informational, and enriching workshop that can be shared with colleagues.” In the Nueva Vizcaya run, the AIP-SIP training workshop also zeroed in on what Dr. Yolanda Quijano TYKFI Consultant- Education Program stated as purpose: n Develop the School’s Annual Implementation Plan based on: • Current SIP (CY 2011-2013) • priority areas that need to be addressed/targets that need to be achieved • identify strategies that ensure accomplishments of objectives -perceive resources • Secretary’s Commitment to the President n Develop an outline of the SIP for 2014-2016 considering the: • Vision and Mission • SWOT analysis/ analysis of problems/ needs and other challenges -goals, objectives, targets • strategies that work • resources needed • stakeholders to be involved • others |
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