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FIN-FIS Interaction
June 6, 2012
A meeting of the animators of the schools and TVET Centers of the FIS and FIN Provinces
convened on June 6, 2012 at the 3rd Flr. Conference Room of the Provincial house to
continue the interactions between the two provinces in carrying out their educational
apostolate. Fr. Ronald Guiao- CYM Delegate, Fr. Cesar Manlosa - Delegate for Schools and
Fr. Rex Carbilledo – Delegate for TVET Centers represented the FIS Province. Fr. Onofre
Inocencio, ODEA Head represented the FIN Province. They have forged together some
lines of action which have yet to be presented to their respective provincials for approval.
They agreed to publish an info brochure of our TVET Centers as way of getting the public
informed who we are as a group - BOSCO TECH - Philippines.
Pre Synod Visits of Schools and TVET Centers
June 4-25, 2012
Fr. Inocencio made rounds of the schools and TVET Centers
to orient school personnel on the challenges, issues and
concerns that confront our school and TVET Centers brought
about by the implementation of the K-12 Program. It is also
an opportunity to gather data on the different programs and
activities engaged by the school to implement the decisions
taken as contained in the Strategic Plan for schools and TVET
Centers. Fr. Inocencio shared some preliminary thinking
regarding the matter but he encouraged each setting to do
their own reflection and come up with some proposals
which can be presented during the Synod of schools and
TVET Centers on September 13-15, 2012. Visits to the
different settings were scheduled as follows:
June 4 – DB Naga June 5 – DB Legazpi
June 6 – DB Mandaluyong HS June 7 – DB Tondo
June 8 – DB Canlubang June 11 – DB San Jose
June 13 – DB Makati June 14 – DB Mandaluyong GS and TVET
June 15 – DB Mandaluyong College June 25 – DB Pampanga
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BOT Assembly
June 9, 2012
Members of the Board of Trustees of
the Schools and TVET Centers
gathered in an assembly on June 9,
2012 at the Bosco Hall, DBTI-Makati.
They were engaged in a highly
spirited interaction revisiting previous
guidelines and decisions regarding
the nature and operation of the BOT.
There were also revisions and
updates made in the present by-laws
of the BOT.
HR Officers Meeting
June 15, 2012
A joint meeting of the HR Officers of the schools and
TVET centers, the HR Provincial Task Force Group
represented by Fr. Edwin Ulanday and Ms. Myrna
Tolentino, and Fr. Inocencio, ODEA Head was held at at
the latter’s office on June 15, 2012 to discuss some HR
concerns particularly the job descriptions and the
performance evaluation tool for the managerial and
supervisory positions in the school workforce. ODEA is
tasked to formulate a common performance evaluation
tool for the managerial and supervisory staff of the
schools and TVET Centers.
APAA/APTA and SAH/SH Meeting
June 16, 2012
The Asst. Principals for Academic Affairs/Technical Affairs
(APAA/APTA) and the Subject Area Heads/Shop Heads (SAH/SH)
met together for their first quarterly meeting for SY 2012-13 at
the Bosco Hall – DBTI Makati on June 15, 2012. Highlighted
during this meeting was the discussion on the implementation of
the K-12 Program for the Basic Education. There was a focus on
the concerns for the time allotment of the different subjects, the
mother tongue based education (MBE) and multilingual
education (MLE) approach, the spiral curriculum for mathematics
and science programs, and the assessment of student
performance. Dr. Auxencia Limjap, the consultant for the Math
Program delivered a progress report on the Math Project.
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TVET Directors Forum
June 21, 2012
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TVET Directors held their regular monthly meeting on June 21, 2012 at the
Conference Room of the Provincial House. HR issues and concerns, in particular the
job descriptions and the performance evaluation tool were discussed in this forum.
There were clarifications made regarding some items on the MAXI Project 2 which
needed to be complied by the TVET Directors. Other topics for the discussion:
research update, institutional promotion, the synod of schools and TVET Centers, the
K-12 Program, FIS-FIN Interactions were taken up in this meeting.
Theater Group Advisers Meeting
June 20, 2012
The advisers of the theatre groups of the schools met in the
afternoon of June 20, 2012 at the ODEA and shared the
development of this youth group. DB – Makati took pride in
the staging of Jesus Christ Superstar last SY 2011-12. Mr.
Raymond de Guzman presented a program to help teachers
acquire some theatre skills with the experience he had of
working with the teachers of the grade school of Don Bosco
Mandaluyong.
Choir and Musical Instruments Advisers Meeting
June 20, 2012
The animators of the Choir and Musical Instruments of
the schools gathered for their annual meeting at the
ODEA on June 20, 2012. Each one of them delivered a
status report on the development of the organization and
the different activities carried out by the group. The
progress of the Don Bosco Makati Choir is phenomenal as
they continued to earn recognitions and win in the
different competitions they joined during SY 2011-12.
Kudos to BosCorale.
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Principals Forum
June 21, 2012
The principals held their regular meeting on June 21,
2012 at the Conference Room of the Provincial House.
They tackled the implementation plan for the K-12
program. The school were encouraged to maximize the
use of social networks (websites, facebook) and
promotional materials such as AV presentations,
corporate portfolio and program brochures to promote
the schools. It was also decided to conduct workshop for
performing arts animators on July 17-18 or 24-28, 2012.
A courtesy call to the Secretary of DepEd and TESDA will
be organized to strengthen network and collaboration
with the said agencies.
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EDITOR
Fr. Onofre G. Inocencio Jr., SDB
PHOTO AND LAYOUT
Lord Marcelo C. Magsino III
CIRCULATION
Jeffrey R. Gomez
School Publication Advisers Meeting
June 22, 2012
Advisers of School Publications held their annual meeting on June 22, 2012 at
the ODEA. Fr. Inocencio congratulated the participants for the improvement he
noticed on the publication of the school organ. Foremost was the recognition
given to DB-Tarlac for keeping high standard and a benchmark for the other
schools on school publications. DB-Tarlac continues to receive awards and local
district, provincial, regional and national recognitions. The group also decided
to hold the Don Bosco Press Conference on July 19-21, 2012.
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Don Bosco Scouting Movement
Meeting
June 22, 2012
The Scoutmasters of the schools
gathered together for their annual
meeting at the ODEA on June 22,
2012.
Each of the scoutmasters
rendered a status report on the Boy
Scouts Movement in their schools. The
long protracted plan to hold a Don
Bosco Jamboree was finally scheduled
on September 13-15, 2013. The early
scheduling of this activity was to
ascertain that the request will be
given priority in the calendar of
activities of each school next SY 201314. Sctr. Noriel Garcia of DBTI –
Makati was elected as Chairman of the
Don Bosco Scouting Movement.
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APSA Meeting
June 23, 2012
Asst. Principals for Student Affairs
held their first quarterly meeting for
SY 2012-13 on June 23, 2012 at the
ODEA Office. The sharings they had
regarding the different disciplinary
issues they encountered during the
school year were very enriching and
gave them the opportunity to reflect
on their own practices.
Student
Activities at the province level for SY
2012-2013 were communicated and
were slated in the calendar.
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CEAP NTEC-NBEC Meeting
June 26, 2012
FUSE General Assembly
June 26, 2012
Dr. Nelia Benito, Director III of the
National Education Testing and
Research Center of DEPED presented
to the members of FUSE in their
general assembly held on June 26,
2012 at the FUCE-LCT Conference
Room, Pearl Tower, Roxas Blvd, Manila
the performance of Gr. 1 and Gr 2 on
public elementary school teachers in
the Test of English Proficiency for
Teachers (TEPT) and the Process Skills
Test (PST) in Science and Mathematics.
The findings of the study revealed that
there is a need to hone the English
Proficiency of teachers in the different
components; specifically in structure,
written expression and reading
comprehension. There is an urgent
need to address teacher’s weakness in
the
following
areas:
inferring,
predicting, communicating, analyzing
data, evaluating, making conclusions,
defining operationally and conducting
experiments.
CEAP
National
Tertiary
Commission
(NTEC)
and
National
Basic
Education
Commission (NBEC) held a joint
meeting on June 26, 2012 at
the Board room of the DLSU –
Manila to discuss some K-12
transitional issues (e.g. Senior
High School models and
curriculum,
relaxing
of
requirements, faculty, college
readiness, costing of programs,
unionized schools, etc.). The
meeting aimed at sorting out
these issues and identifying
which ones private education
should be concerned with and
need to address.
1st SLA Organizational Meeting
June 25, 2012
Representatives from the Student
Councils of the different Don Bosco
schools met together on June 25,
2012 to organize the Student
Leaders Assembly slated for August
15-16, 2012 at DBA – Malabacat,
the host school for SLA 2012. The
Student Council of the DBAPampanga takes leadership in the
organization of the event. Don
Bosco – Caritas of Sta. Rosa joins
the other five Don Bosco schools of
the FIN province in this gathering of
student leaders.
Deans and Vice Deans Forum
June 27, 2012
The Deans and Vice Deans held their regular
monthly meeting on June 27, 2012 at the
Community room of the Salesian Residence in
DBC-Canlubang. Follow up of the resolutions of
the previous meeting highlighted the first part
of the meeting. The need to comply with the
agreed resolutions was emphasized. HR
concerns were taken up in particular the job
descriptions and the performance evaluation
tool. ODEA was charged with a mandate to
come up with a common performance
evaluation for managerial and supervisory
positions. The Deans were requested to
prepare the Report on the State of Affairs of
the College and the Proposed Plan on the
implementation of the K-12 Program.
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Guidance Counselors Meeting
June 29, 2012
Librarians Meeting
June 28, 2012
In a meeting held at MIC –
DBTI – Makati City on June
19, 2012, the librarians
interacted with each other
and
benchmarked
their
practices
through
their
sharings. They discussed
some HR concerns in
particular
those
that
pertained to their job
descriptions
and
the
performance evaluation. Fr.
Gerard Ravasco presented to
the body the proposal to
establish
a
research
repository in order to make
the research materials easily
accessible
through
the
network.
DBTI – Makati Guidance Office hosted the
annual gathering of the Guidance Counselors
on June 29, 2012 at the Bosco Hall – DBTI
Makati. HR concerns and issues were taken up
particularly regarding their job description and
performance evaluation. The counselors shared
best practices of their institutions for the
enrichment of each one. Sexual orientation and
the gay phenomenon, ADHD, bullying, use of
technology, MIS, aligning the guidance program
to the K-12 demands were the topics of
discussion for the day. Fr. Inocencio bared the
plan to provide class advisers basic guidance
skills.
COW Assembly
June 30, 2012
The members of the Council of the Work of the
schools and TVET Centers participated in an
assembly held at the Bosco Hall – DBTI Makati City
on June 30, 2012. A review of the various
documents of the Educational Apostolate of the FIN
province in particular the Profile of the Ideal
Bosconian was carried out by the assembly. Fr.
Dennis Paez presented to the body the different
modules he has prepared as resource materials to
help in the family Apostolate of the schools and
TVET Centers. HR issues and concerns were taken
up and the discussion was facilitated by Ms. Myrna
Tolentino. Fr. Inocencio led the reflection on the
implementation of the K-12 Program, the use of
social network for school promotion and the urgent
need for a technology plan and a vocation plan
required of the schools and TVET Centers
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