by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
CLOSING in on the dream of making Bohol a center for educational excellence in the region, Governor Edgar
Chatto said launching the Dynamic Learning Program (DLP) next year and engaging the country’s education
secretary would be a big step.
At his weekly radio program aired live over local radio stations, Chatto revealed that no less than the secretary and another top official of the Department of Education (DepEd) will be here within the week.
Despite a 93% literacy rating, local officials noted that landing better jobs for graduates is still an issue.
Amidst troubled educational system in the country, local officials have resolved to address at least the basic
need of tooling of high school graduates to get them better chances of a job.
Earlier, Chatto cited a recent study that shows a high rate of high school students not making it to college.
Picking up education as an administration’s priority, Chatto drew a system where technical and vocational skills training in the high school would be put in, to assure young workers better chances of jobs.
Upon learning of the successful implementation of a (DLP) as pioneered by Jagna town couple Christopher and
Ma. Victoria Bernido, he said such could be done in Bohol.
Themselves noted physicists and academicians, the Bernido couple developed an efficient learning and
teaching method, one that Chatto hopes could be replicated in Bohol secondary schools.
The Bernidos, who administer Central Visayas Institute in Jagna has implemented a student centered learning
system, where teaching focuses on student activity rather than on traditional classroom lectures.
A blog at annakatharinamd.com says “the set-up is 70% student activity–30% lecture/discussion, and usually
national experts do the majority of the lectures via video. The students learn independently, because each
activity is provided with a clear, learning target.”
“The student will try to understand the lesson on their own by reading the concept notes and by doing the
exercises before the lesson is discussed and explained,” the blog shared.
Some examples of student activities are solving exercises, answering guide questions and copying notes.
“Each student keeps a portfolio of his work as a representative documentation of his schoolwork. This would
later on serve as his reviewer and proof also of his performance in school.”
The program includes a portfolio of learning activities to be individually accomplished by the students, and
closely-associated weekly video-based lectures featuring National Expert Teachers.
Real-time teacher-expert and student-expert interaction happens through text-messaging and electronic mail,
the blog stated. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, National News
NIABOT na sa 19,000 barangay sa tibuok nasud ang nakapag-proklama na sa mga nidaug
sa barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) eleksiyon.
Matud pa ni Divina Blas-Perez, Director sa Election and Barangay Affairs Department sa
Commission on Elections, 18,926 o 45.6 percent sa tibuok 42,025 ka barangay sa tibuok
nasud ang may bag-ong set sa mga chairman, kagawad ug SK officials.
Niadtong Martes, diha na’y 2,303 ang nipahigayon ug piniliay human gi-oktaba ang botohan
niadtong Lunes tungod sa aberya sa delivery sa mga election materials samtang niadtong
Miyerkoles, diha na’y 117 ka barangay ang nipahigayon ug eleksiyon.
Wala hinuon nakapagawas ang Co-melec sa gidaghanon sa mga botanteng niapil sa piniliay
tungod kay kinahanglan pa nilang humanon una ang tanang botohan. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, National News
last month’s bar exam blast along Taft Avenue, Manila.
Presidential Spokesperson Atty. Edwin Lacierda issued the assurance in response to
speculations that suspected grenade thrower Anthony Leal Nepomuceno might get special
treatment after surrendering to Vice President Jejomar Binay. Both Binay and Nepomuceno
are members of Alpha Phi Omega (APO).
“Definitely, there will be no special treatment. Again, the only request of the suspect was that
his rights be respected,” Lacierda said during press briefing on Wednesday afternoon.
The same stand was also echoed by Justice Secretary Leila De Lima during a press
conference where the suspect was presented.
Nepomuceno, a call center agent and member of APO fraternity, was turned over by the
fraternity’s councils of elders after surrendering to Binay, thirty days after the 2010 bar
examinations blast.
Lacierda said they welcome the surrender of the suspect particularly the successful
intervention of the Vice President. He said the surrender will serve as signal for the Justice
Department to start the prosecution and give justice to the victims. (PCOO/PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, National News
THE House of Representatives will conduct its own investigation on the delays in the
deliveries of poll materials, which led to the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguinang
Kabataan elections in certain areas.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. has given the go-signal to the committee on suffrage and
electoral reforms to conduct a hearing on November 9 at 9:30 a.m., a day after Congress
resumes session, to find out what happened in the recently-held local polls, according to
Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga Jr., chairman of the committee.
Among those to be invited are officials of the Comelec headed by chairman Jose Melo,
officials of the National Printing Office, and the Department of Interior and Local Government.
More than 2,400 barangays or 5.85 percent of the total number of more than 42,000
barangays were not able to push through with the village polls last Monday after reported
delays of election materials.
To recall, some members of the House of Representatives proposed that the barangay polls
be moved to a later date, but this proposal was later shelved by allies of President Benigno
Aquino III. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, Weather Coverage
Tropical Storm Katring (international name Chaba) has intensified into a typhoon Tuesday
morning but state weather forecasters said it remained too far to affect any part of the
country.
In its 11 a.m. advisory, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) said Katring continued to move north northwest direction, packing
maximum winds of 120 kilometers per hour with gustiness of up to 150 kph.
PAGASA said Katring was located 700 km east southeast of extreme northern Luzon as of
10 a.m.
The weather bureau said Katring was is expected to be 670 km northeast of extreme
Northern Luzon Thursday morning, and 910 km northeast of extreme Northern Luzon Friday
morning.
PAGASA did not raise any storm signals as Katring is still too far to affect any part of the
country. (PIA)
