Poetry society holds first national tilt amid pandemic

<h1 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-jxNcNZkOK3zyvz9moxhGvdtwU-amm2Y-szH4aL9oIUywWLXkuI-lFHTNwWUNpuy5SwWs0QO6wdASZpyY_ucadMYobdPCOiMoKDXitSqfRbYpoLiN2i91MqyuWwyDP7GOrTAeWJjPZGq/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-jxNcNZkOK3zyvz9moxhGvdtwU-amm2Y-szH4aL9oIUywWLXkuI-lFHTNwWUNpuy5SwWs0QO6wdASZpyY_ucadMYobdPCOiMoKDXitSqfRbYpoLiN2i91MqyuWwyDP7GOrTAeWJjPZGq/w318-h320/1.jpg" width="318" /></a></div>Hoping to provide a creative outlet to millions of Filipinos in these trying times, The Next Poets Society conducted its first-ever national poem writing contest online from May 15–27, 2020.</h1><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">With the theme Life and Love, more than 500 participants penned their chances of submitting entries from all over the country.</h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbpxX3p7rfitQ744oclCpxzzZibDjViwErE1lrDfDxzZoaoOmXLXq1afMn5ZRwmXeQ1yZmVQHipWemq84LUHeufzVRr71wLlUQFMQTDFXXHWSX8BEcbGn9QFBmO746yI31u6OKDkBLZRj/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="713" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbpxX3p7rfitQ744oclCpxzzZibDjViwErE1lrDfDxzZoaoOmXLXq1afMn5ZRwmXeQ1yZmVQHipWemq84LUHeufzVRr71wLlUQFMQTDFXXHWSX8BEcbGn9QFBmO746yI31u6OKDkBLZRj/w200-h198/The+Next+Poet+Society+Logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Days after the grueling judging followed by online voting, <font>𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 </font>During these trying times brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Next Poets Society aimed to provide a creative outlet to millions of Filipinos through its first-ever national poem writing contest held online from May 15-27, 2020. With the theme "Life and Love," more than 500 participants from all over the country submitted their entries in hopes of winning the top prize.</div><div><br /></div><div>After days of grueling judging followed by online voting, Angel Allen Montejo Son from Cavite emerged as the champion with his poem "Larong katoto, di nahahapo." Patrizsa May Alfonsso of Zamboanga City followed closely in second place with her entry "Philautia," while Charles Werrold Fernandez of Pangasinan took the third spot with his poem "SILA."</div><div><br /></div><div>For Son, poetry helps him balance his thoughts and provides him with a medium to explore different perspectives, especially during the COVID-19 crisis. Aside from the top three winners, three other hopefuls also made it to the finals: Kim Angelo P. Umayam from Quezon City (4th Place, Entry: "Paano Magmahal ng Isang Uod?"), Arnold C. Gatus from Valenzuela City (5th Place, Entry: "My Quarantined Love Amid Quarantined Life"), and Marc Morric Arayan from Las Piñas City (6th Place, Entry: "Ang Natuto"). The contest was a success in terms of providing a creative platform for Filipinos to express their thoughts and emotions during these challenging times.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdteSZD17akD8o-xfVLSxdRKS8kdwEH-8gbkDWN3OncwjSC0Zo-dgTPmz8pD1qJlj6DVbHRyETXc0ymwMn-xbTFYg0wfoEaAwuvtlBEBDv_rhlPyj_GjljoPGJkNfKaWGYcbyfQ9WV9XQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1080" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdteSZD17akD8o-xfVLSxdRKS8kdwEH-8gbkDWN3OncwjSC0Zo-dgTPmz8pD1qJlj6DVbHRyETXc0ymwMn-xbTFYg0wfoEaAwuvtlBEBDv_rhlPyj_GjljoPGJkNfKaWGYcbyfQ9WV9XQ/w640-h365/First+Winner.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInrblGln85MHmCH-cqzOb-wrkVO7o3y95hja1-HgAm9yxwkUexZPdcVbVT0OZmcGFWSZ1s6UyZBtzmmoUWhjc-4Un6XbeXHAFznHGMwj9u7ZXNE4tVID9_aTHqQKTyR-CiTKQ5jYxN1ua/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1080" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInrblGln85MHmCH-cqzOb-wrkVO7o3y95hja1-HgAm9yxwkUexZPdcVbVT0OZmcGFWSZ1s6UyZBtzmmoUWhjc-4Un6XbeXHAFznHGMwj9u7ZXNE4tVID9_aTHqQKTyR-CiTKQ5jYxN1ua/w640-h364/Second+Winner.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeupFjRxXTDennZGi8HZweUqX3ONG1zAZhLVo8VHjXPNri5Ommp-KB5bBSPcAy3oS8XVRvgFsJnrsHaaQYwdxvqJTUwI2TViNK7dj1KAckETOeuunIlVKo6wLZGNb59zj7h9csUcj3AUi/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1080" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeupFjRxXTDennZGi8HZweUqX3ONG1zAZhLVo8VHjXPNri5Ommp-KB5bBSPcAy3oS8XVRvgFsJnrsHaaQYwdxvqJTUwI2TViNK7dj1KAckETOeuunIlVKo6wLZGNb59zj7h9csUcj3AUi/w640-h364/Third+Winner.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div>Here’s the link to the video: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/110165790698123/posts/120608502987185/">The Next Poets Society</a> on Facebook Page.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>

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Public school teachers to get salary increases; asked to wait a bit

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Duterte asked the teachers to wait for the Salary Increase<br /> <br /> President Duterte has appealed to public school teachers to “wait for a little” longer for the increase in their salaries he proposed this year.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TJ_SxW_Z5bcP8Sf7gJBYFUezVGH02lyclp6KNVtdg19gfD5gtTFHZWhnTN2gVTYRBouFV8Vud-2A75vhcQiP6gjDVD7cvZx_EH2EDM_UOQzgEy17MKHX5xsbRZfnGRd8iFj2BS78kAKX/s1600/RTVM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="750" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TJ_SxW_Z5bcP8Sf7gJBYFUezVGH02lyclp6KNVtdg19gfD5gtTFHZWhnTN2gVTYRBouFV8Vud-2A75vhcQiP6gjDVD7cvZx_EH2EDM_UOQzgEy17MKHX5xsbRZfnGRd8iFj2BS78kAKX/s640/RTVM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i>Photo Credits to RTVM </i></div> <br /><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">During a recent campaign rally in Cebu City, Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that there was no sufficient budget yet to fund his plan of doubling the wages of public school teachers, but assured that their salaries would eventually be doubled just like the police. He added that he had talked to Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno about the funds needed for the proposed salary adjustment for public school teachers, but had given priority to doubling the pay of government troops since they were in the frontline in addressing national security threats.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It can be recalled that last January, the President pledged to raise the salaries of public school teachers this year after approving the pay hike to soldiers and policemen. According to Diokno, government workers are expected to get a pay increase as part of the fourth tranche of the Salary Standardization Law. Once the budget bill is signed into law, the salary adjustment will be applied retroactively from January 2019.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div> Source: <a href="https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/02/26/public-school-teachers-to-get-salary-increases-asked-to-wait-a-bit/" target="_blank">Manila Bulletin</a> </div>

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OPINION: K-12 is 6 years of high school for nothing

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpf1urTzJVlzDPf1Yianz1OF6P0rA0QKkW7JlSZ02NBDEc00kAGgweXXNv5T9Nc5B1CsCKsFfQ55q5-z6JhxG4Oi3bqwx5INP-h5OjAdKayPpki6Q4iQ0Kb3Biqd61jbRs27TJhrCbiyip/s1600/k12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpf1urTzJVlzDPf1Yianz1OF6P0rA0QKkW7JlSZ02NBDEc00kAGgweXXNv5T9Nc5B1CsCKsFfQ55q5-z6JhxG4Oi3bqwx5INP-h5OjAdKayPpki6Q4iQ0Kb3Biqd61jbRs27TJhrCbiyip/s640/k12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Is the K to 12 education system as effective as the government promised it to be? One of the first graduates of K to 12 writes about the failures of the new education system and how the DepEd may improve it. Photo by JILSON TIU</i></span><br /> <br /> Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — Today, it appears that the first students to graduate from K to 12 have been forgotten and swept in the dustbin of history. After enduring two additional years of high school where the implementation was unclear for teachers and students all throughout, the guinea pigs of the K to 12 reform have every right to be distressed at the Department of Education’s lack of evidence of its success.<br /> <br /> Employability was the top selling point of the K to 12 curriculum, but it was clear as early as January of this year that graduates of senior high school, or Grade 12, would not be able to compete in the workforce as promised by the Department of Education (DepEd). A 2018 JobStreet report shows that only 24 percent of employers were willing to hire K to 12 graduates as the rest still cited having a college degree as the primary qualification for employment. Worse, the department currently has no data on how many senior high school graduates were able to find work related to the track that they had completed.<br /> <br /> For instance, senior high school graduate Luis* studied in a relatively small college in Pasig City with a tuition fee that only cost ₱10,000 per semester. He took up Information in Communication and Technology (ICT) because of his interests in computer science. However, because of the limited space in the school and the difficulty of hiring teachers who could teach the advanced subjects, Luis never thought of any other job opportunity in his track aside from entering the call center industry. Additionally, he says that the “poor implementation of senior high school” in his school had contributed to the year-long mess that he and his classmates experienced.<br /> <br /> “Most students are angry because of the school’s curriculum. In fact, the school doesn’t follow the prescribed curriculum anymore. They just force the students to join their weekly event and pay some money to pass the exam which is very wrong,” he says.<br /> <br /> Luis, who needs to support himself now that he is living away from his parents, plans to continue to college after a year of working as a customer service representative in a call center.<br /> <br /> “I guess there’s more to ICT than working in a call center, but I don’t know. I didn’t learn much [from senior high school].”<br /> <br /> Alexandra Villacorta, a Humanities and Social Science student from a senior high school in Antipolo City, also tried to find a job after graduating. She applied for jobs in different companies but didn’t get call backs for certain interviews because she had not yet finished 2 years of college.<br /> <br /> Alexandra, who was a former literary writer in their school paper, settled for whatever jobs that were available.<br /> <br /> “I started small. I took home ₱250 a day for house cleaning and tutorial services before I decided to work in the call center,” she recounts. “When I started getting sick from the night shifts, I decided to do e-commerce instead and be my own boss.”<br /> <br /> Now deciding to take a gap year, Alexandra plans to continue to college after earning enough money. For her, being a senior high school graduate is not enough.<br /> <br /> “My mom almost didn't finish her schooling once she started earning money during her time,” she says. “Hindi pwede ‘yung ganitong klaseng buhay lang. I earn for my education because I know I'll find purpose in it.”<br /> <br /> And for a curriculum that has banked on producing globally competitive graduates with “21st-century skills,” it’s going against its own mandate by merely producing cheap labor for outsourcing agencies and multinational companies. We don’t need creative imagination to deduce which jobs are waiting for thousands of senior high school graduates from small schools in low economic areas: blue-collared work in factories or customer service work in call centers or fast-food chains — jobs that have been accepting high school graduates even before K to 12 was introduced.<br /> <br /> If this is the case, then two years of tuition fees, insurmountable effort, and time from the students’ part had gone to waste as they had only ended up in the same inhumane Philippine labor force where labor rights are routinely violated. When you have an education system that seems to be riddled with more problems than solutions, students are the ones to take the hit the hardest. K to 12 worsens, not improves, poor families’ conditions by aggravating their circumstances with added costs of education.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQvzG3dRww1TT4tE4wRBb2d2aRLI9vbcNq6IenHRX_WTKjii4luoIO1HkdsUR42OG6rA_m1BmeRqNl5ATkdXotO-map_xxFuordkoPaoed8RXtzCAbJFI3fK0QCKIlGwR00Zp6o_uNwMX/s1600/k121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQvzG3dRww1TT4tE4wRBb2d2aRLI9vbcNq6IenHRX_WTKjii4luoIO1HkdsUR42OG6rA_m1BmeRqNl5ATkdXotO-map_xxFuordkoPaoed8RXtzCAbJFI3fK0QCKIlGwR00Zp6o_uNwMX/s640/k121.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"The government should take steps to address the lack of classrooms in public schools with the increasing population of high school students and the poor procurement of learning materials," says Chi. Photo by JILSON TIU</i></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>Birthing Pains</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Introducing an educational reform as big as K to 12 will always result in birthing pains, but this does not mean that the government will cease to be accountable to the students that were experimented on. Birthing pains can very easily turn to permanent wounds to the Philippine education system that seems to be only one bruise away from collapsing altogether.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> In my high school, the San Beda University Senior High School, Media, and Information Literacy were taught like a confused arts class where students are typically asked to submit drawings and slogans. For our performance task, we took different pictures of sceneries based on the photography angles we learned in class. Students from other classes were asked to submit videos of themselves performing spoken word poetry. I don’t remember any discussion on fake news, critical thinking, fact-checking sources, and other topics that would actually make a student media literate, as the name of the subject implies. In fact, my teacher in the subject was a graduate of Computer Science and Physics.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> While I understand that my school (and my teacher) may have only been following DepEd’s curriculum, we must be clear about what senior high school’s subjects are all about and hire teachers who have extensive knowledge about the subjects. Teachers should have more access to enrolling in master’s degree programs to be able to guide the students effectively and to have a solid background in the subject. We should not merely throw hooray words like “global,” “international,” and “21st century” around to make the subjects appear different from its Junior High School counterparts when in reality, they are the same basic subjects that provide redundant information.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The new curriculum and the addition of two more years of high school should be evidence-based, but even one of the only systems of assessment of Grade 12 students’ knowledge, which is the National Achievement Test (NAT), had been delayed. The NAT was originally scheduled before the end of the school year, but we ended up taking the test as late as April.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> According to San Beda University Senior High School’s Assistant Prefect for Student Activities Benjamin Sonajo, the NAT for our batch was pushed back twice because “the printing for testing materials had been delayed.” As a result, the two-day test was attended by only half of our class.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> How can the DepEd accurately measure the improvement of students’ knowledge during senior high school when its few systems of assessment had not been prepared for by department officials? Problems with the printing of the booklets are not an excuse in this scenario — they had two whole years to prepare for the evaluation of the new reform which had been contested by many as useless. Senior high school, which was also tagged as college preparatory as it claimed to give students the fundamentals of all general education subjects in college, risks being truly useless if the department will not conduct thorough research on its first implementation.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdmM6Uuemaa0RdKCgE7BoInVJdA5c7WSekbfY8_votHESxx1VPXGwLP4_n7a_4Zr1f6m6k7JINEQV9l_En-W503bnrL2b78GRyUhdWUD3TvYEP_bghBog5cay3INTRp3MzIdE24o_WRlK/s1600/k123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdmM6Uuemaa0RdKCgE7BoInVJdA5c7WSekbfY8_votHESxx1VPXGwLP4_n7a_4Zr1f6m6k7JINEQV9l_En-W503bnrL2b78GRyUhdWUD3TvYEP_bghBog5cay3INTRp3MzIdE24o_WRlK/s640/k123.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The writer suggests that for K to 12 work, DepEd should invest in the primary executors of its curriculum who can translate its aims from paper to practice. Teachers who are overworked and underpaid are at risk of being spread even thinner from the addition of two more years of high school. Photo by JL JAVIER</i></span><br /> <br /> <b>DepEd’s accountability</b><br /> <br /> “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world,” was how Paulo Freire wrote about education in his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” This is more relevant than ever as Education Secretary Leonor Briones moves to review the K to 12 curriculum.<br /> <br /> It’s important that DepEd proposes concrete, long-term solutions based on evidence if it wants K to 12 to work. They should stop tagging senior high school as an alternative to college for those who would like to work immediately after graduation, as this leaves plenty of students at risk of becoming cheap robots tied to manual labor. Education should be the force that liberates students from being stuck in the cycle of poverty, but if things continue the way they are, more and more Filipinos will be hard pressed to even finish senior high school.<br /> <br /> For K to 12 work, DepEd should invest in the primary executors of its curriculum who can translate its aims from paper to practice. Teachers who are overworked and underpaid are at risk of being spread even thinner from the addition of two more years of high school. The answer to this problem is to increase the pay of teachers and to offer more advanced education opportunities for them to effectively teach the new subjects in senior high. Just like us, they too are blindly groping in the dark as to how to navigate an unknown system. They shoulder the heavy responsibility of making sure the new education reform will work — it follows that they deserve all the support they can get.<br /> <br /> Lastly, the government should take steps to address the lack of classrooms in public schools with an increasing population of high school students and the poor procurement of learning materials. They should also revise the senior high school curriculum and carefully oversee the implementation of first-time subjects such as Media and Information Literacy; Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century; and conduct a comprehensive review of the curriculum before selling it as a two-year solution to make high school students job-ready. Education reforms need to be given a chance, but we must remember that the students suffering from the experimentation deserve a sure future, too.<br /> <br /> As of press time, the Department of Education’s website for Frequently Asked Questions on K to 12 has been wiped of its old contents where I used to read about how I would become job-ready after graduating from senior high school.<br /> <br /> This shows that the department, in its efforts to review the whole curriculum, should still answer to the very real concerns of the pioneer batch of K to 12 who are still trying to reconcile what seems like two years of wasted time and resources. A tall order? Perhaps. But the senior high school had no significant impact on the majority of students who worked or proceeded to college.<br /> <br /> In the end, we have thousands of students who feel they’ve been delayed by K to 12, including me.<br /> <br /> *Name has been changed at subject’s request.<br /> <br /> Source: CNN Philippines</div>

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DEPED: Beki Language, maaaring gamiting medium sa pagtuturo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge55_di9lZc6yBhDo2Qf20L3pHSFPdbMUI6e2UoHqi-785Ohn2KYkisXMwhPVdFme0Qwuzhp-Rua7NVTFyuAYHjkmnk_EZfanbwrBkHPsMwBqI4L8frK6V5xeFrMNjGjAfVnu-imW0YCT/s1600/beki.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="644" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge55_di9lZc6yBhDo2Qf20L3pHSFPdbMUI6e2UoHqi-785Ohn2KYkisXMwhPVdFme0Qwuzhp-Rua7NVTFyuAYHjkmnk_EZfanbwrBkHPsMwBqI4L8frK6V5xeFrMNjGjAfVnu-imW0YCT/s640/beki.PNG" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Image source: <a href="http://depedtambayanph.blogspot.com/2015/08/deped-beki-language-maaaring-gamiting.html#.WWFvv19RJJk.facebook" target="_blank">DepEdTambayan</a></i></div> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://adf.ly/1MnHD4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #a0a0a0; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> news from TV5</span><br /> <br /> Iminungkahi ng Department of Education (DepEd)  na isama na sa pagtuturo sa mga eskwelahan ang "Beki language." Ayon sa ahensya, matagal na rin naman ginagamit ang lenggwahe sa bansa maaring kaya maaaring hinog na ito at tanggap na ng karamihan.<br /> <br /> Ang layunin ng wika ay makapagturo, para makapgcommunicate. kung yong language na yun o words na yun ang maintindihan ng isang bata dapat lang naman na gamitin.<br /> <br /> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> Gay / Beki Lingo Collections</h2> Gay Lingo / Beki languange<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue;">PROPER NOUNS</span></h3> Ace Sanchez – atop sa balay<br /> Aglipay – ugly Pinay ( jowang pokpok na chaka ng mayaman na foreigner )<br /> Ana, Anaconda – ahas, traidor<br /> Anita Linda, Aida – A.I.D.S.<br /> Ate Vangie – gamot pampatulog (Ativan Gang)<br /> Ate Vi – atrebida<br /> Backstreet Boys – cute guys sa likuran mo<br /> Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya – masturbate<br /> Bebang, Mayta – maid<br /> Blusang Itim – mga bakla na gumanda nang maayusan sa parlor<br /> Cathy Santillan, Kate Gomez, Cathy Mora, Cathy Dennis – makati, malibog<br /> Chabelita – chubby<br /> Chanda Romero – tummy (ang laki ng Chanda Romero nung pulis) / an old woman<br /> Chiquito – maliit<br /> Churchill – sosyal<br /> Crayola Khomeni – iyak<br /> Dakota Harrison P! laza – malaki birdie<br /> Debbie Gibson – give<br /> Duty Free – maliit ang nota<br /> Ella Mae (Saeson), Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Luansing – state of feeling horny<br /> Eva Kalaw – evak<br /> Felix Bakat – bakat ang birdie (sa brief or pants)<br /> Girlie Rodis – babae<br /> Givenchy – give, pahingi<br /> Halls – tsupa<br /> Indiana Jones – hindi sumipot<br /> Janjalani, Pocahontas – bakla na palaging late o indyanera<br /> Jennilyn (Mercado) – cheap, chaka<br /> Joana Paras – asawa<br /> Julanis Morisette, Reyna Elena – umuulan<br /> Julie Andrews – mahuli<br /> Kelvinator, Kelvina – babaeng mataba, sinlaki ng refrigirator<br /> Leticia Ramos Shahani – shabu<br /> Lilet – bading na bagets<br /> Lucita Soriano – loss na, sorry pa<br /> Lucrecia Kasilag – baliw<br /> Luz Clarita, Luz Clarita, Luz Valdez – talo, loss ang beauty<br /> Maharlika, Mahalia Jackson – mahal<br /> Miss Nigeria – negra<br /> Murriah Carey, Morayta – mura<br /> Nora Daza – magluto<br /> Oprah Winfrey, O.P.M. – oh, promise me, pangako, utang<br /> Phil Collins – Philcoa<br /> Purita Kalaw Ledesma, Purita Kashiwara, Pureta Malaviga – poor, dukha<br /> Rica Paralejo, Nina Ricci – mayaman<br /> Rita Gomez – naiirita<br /> Ruffa – laklak<br /> Siete Pecados – tsismosa<br /> Thunder Cats – gurang<br /> Tom Jones, Tommy Lee Jones – gutom<br /> Uranus – puwet<br /> Washington D.C. – wala<br /> X-Men – mga dating lalaki<br /> Yayo Aguila – dyahe<br /> Zsa Zsa Padilla – o siya, sige!<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue;">ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS</span></h3> 48 years – sobrang tagal<br /> antibiotic – antipatika<br /> balaj, valaj – balahura<br /> bella – boba<br /> bigalou – big<br /> biway, chopopo, guash – gwapo<br /> bongga, bonggakea – super to the max<br /> borta – malaki katawan<br /> boyband – lalaking sintaba ng baboy<br /> buya – nakakahiya<br /> chaka, chuckie, shonget, ma-kyonget, chapter, jupang-pang – ugly<br /> cheapangga, chipipay – cheap, ka-cheapan<br /> chipipay – cheap<br /> chopopo – gwapo<br /> conalei – baklush<br /> daki – dako<br /> dites – dito<br /> doonek – doon<br /> effem – halatang bakla<br /> emena gushung – malanding semenarista<br /> fayatollah kumenis – payat<br /> ganda lang – for free<br /> ganders – maganda<br /> intonses – sira, wasak<br /> jongoloids – bobo<br /> jowa, jowabelles, jowabella – karelasyon, boyfriend o girlfriend<br /> jutay, juts – maliit<br /> kabog, loss – talo!<br /> katagalugan – matagal<br /> katol – mukhang katulong<br /> kirara – pangit / maitim<br /> klapeypey-klapeypey – pumalakpak<br /> krang-krang – hungry (same as Tom Jones)<br /> krung-krung – sira ulo, baliw<br /> lulu, tungril, tetetet – lesbian<br /> mahogany, mashumers, ugmas – mabaho<br /> majubis – mataba / gusgusin<br /> matod – magnanakaw<br /> nakakalurky – nakaka-shock, nakaka-takot<br /> neuro – napaisip bigla, mind-boggler<br /> oblation – walang saplot<br /> otoko – lalakeng lalaki<br /> pamin, paminta, pamentos, pamenthol – discreet gay guy<br /> pinkalou – pink<br /> pranella – praning<br /> quality control – maganda ang quality<br /> sangkatuts – marami, isang katutak<br /> shala – sosyal<br /> shogal – matagal<br /> shokot, bokot – takot<br /> shonga, shongaers, planggana – *****<br /> shonga-shonga – *****-*****<br /> shonget, makyonget – ugly<br /> shontis – buntis<br /> sudems – never<br /> tamalis – tamad<br /> urky – nakakaloka<br /> warla – loka-loka, nawawala sa sarili, nababaliw<br /> wasok – contraction ng “wasak pag pasok”<br /> wiz, waz – wala!<br /> wrangler, thunder(s), tanders, majonders – matanda<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: blue;">NOUNS, PRONOUNS AND PREPOSITIONS</span></h3> adez, andabelz, adesa, anda, ka-andahan, andalucia – pera<br /> akesh, akembang – ako<br /> badet, dinga, dingalou – bading<br /> berru – beer<br /> borlog – tulog, power nap<br /> bottomesa, bottones – a bottom<br /> bufra – boyfriend<br /> carrou, carosa – car<br /> cheese – chismis<br /> chimi, chimini, chimi-aa, chimini-aa – maid<br /> constru – construction worker<br /> daot – ahas, traitor<br /> ditey, ditich, ditraks – dito<br /> feelanga – crush<br /> fiampey – singit, birdie, flower<br /> garapata – vaklush na punggok na majubis<br /> gardini – security guard<br /> oishi – shabu<br /> gulay, pechay, bilatch, tahong – babae<br /> hada – oral gay sex<br /> hammer – pakonyo effect sa mga prosti or callboy, “pokpok”<br /> havana – mahabang mukha<br /> hipon – maganda ang katawan pero panget<br /> itich, itechlavu – ito<br /> itich-me-how – birdie<br /> jipamy – jeep<br /> jowa, jowawis – lover, boy/girlfriend<br /> jubelita – vaklita, batang bading<br /> kat-kat – sosyal na tawag sa katulong<br /> katol, chimay – katulong<br /> kyota – bata<br /> kyotatalet – sanggol<br /> likil, mentos, future – lalaki<br /> merlat, melat, bilat, mujer – babae<br /> nota, notes – penis<br /> pa-uring – a bottom<br /> performance artist – mahilig mag-inarte<br /> potato queen – chink for chinks<br /> red alert – menstruation<br /> rice queen – chink folks who go for white guys (?)<br /> colbam, sholbam – callboy<br /> sholbug – na daig<br /> shulupi – pulubi<br /> shumod, shumodity – tams<br /> suba, bugarou – cigarette<br /> success story – babae/lalaki na mukhang katulong na may lover na foreigner na masalapi<br /> katuray – baklang mukhang katulong na mataray<br /> tayelz – tayo<br /> variables – barya, coins<br /> wigwam – wig<br /> pandagdag lng…<br /> a,anda,kuray, =pera<br /> lapz,lapangga,lapang = kain<br /> notes,noting,nota = alam nyo na yun<br /> ana bet = ayaw ko, di ko feel<br /> sunshine dizon = umaga na<br /> nomo,mamam = inuman<br /> borgy manotoc = maraming pimples<br /> chanel = una na ko<br /> mudra = mama<br /> pudra = tatay<br /> shupatid,jupiter = kapatid<br /> julalay – alalay<br /> manilyn reynes – pera/ulan<br /> junakis – anak<br /> chaka, chapter – panget<br /> daku, dakila – malaki<br /> booblang, bobonicles – mahina ang ulo<br /> kimiladoo – kunwari lang<br /> plastikada – plastic<br /> bagelya – bag<br /> afam,mering = foreigner<br /> joga boobey = boobs<br /> silikonada = baklang may boobs<br /> warla = away<br /> bona,bobonikles = bobo<br /> b.y, = gwapo<br /> omz,ombaw,lulu = boys<br /> bilat,kilatra = babae<br /> erna = poo poo hehe<br /> suba = yosi<br /> durables = mura<br /> mahalia jackson, makimils = mahal<br /> stuts = states u.s<br /> aida = aids<br /> julalay – alalay<br /> manilyn reynes – pera/ulan<br /> junakis – anak<br /> flangak, planggana, flatch, flat shoes – tama, korek<br /> chaka, chapter – panget<br /> daku, dakila – malaki<br /> booblang, bobonicles – mahina ang ulo<br /> kimiladoo – kunwari lang<br /> plastikada – plastic<br /> bagelya – bag<br /> okray -nasira<br /> imbyerna – nainis<br /> jutay -maliit<br /> jowa -bf<br /> luzvaldez -natalo<br /> lukring -lukaluka<br /> lafang -kumain<br /> toyota -may sumpong<br /> Shonga -stupid<br /> eclavu -my love<br /> echos -whatever<br /> everloo -forever<br /> yamey – means mamaya<br /> ramsey – means pahiram o pautang<br /> kasbum – means bukas<br /> kadley – means maglakad<br /> chamita – means pangit<br /> portugal – means ang tagal, matagal<br /> nagmamaasim – nagmamaganda<br /> eksenadora – gumagawa ng exena<br /> ferlie – bl*w job<br /> lafyok – kain or torrid kiss<br /> ate madeska – madaldal<br /> ate matet – malapad noo<br /> ate lucky – malaki ilong<br /> ate nancy – nonsense<br /> ate gina – gumagawa ng kwento<br /> pangat sa ubas, pasok sa banga- exactly, korek<br /> duty free, dyutay – maliit and tootoot ng mga boys<br /> wersu – boobs<br /> werlog – balls / itlog ng boy. (hihihi)<br /> notes, notakels – guys genitals<br /> sa trulilty – sa totoo lang<br /> tusha – s3x<br /> kebla, kebz – malaki ang notes..wehhe<br /> wizel, wit – hindi<br /> atashi – ako<br /> anda, ades – pera<br /> francine prieto, pransya – may toyo o may sayad sa utak..wehhe<br /> epek lang, keri lang – means ok lang<br /> cryola – iyak<br /> erklip – tulog<br /> ikura – magkano<br /> embey, emberika – galit or inis<br /> touch mobile – nahawakan<br /> chipangga – cheap<br /> thundercats -matanda<br /> makiyawti -mabaho<br /> pokish – slutty<br /> bonamin – anal s3x<br /> biogesic -mast*rbate<br /> insekyora -inggitera, insecure<br /> <br /> News Source: http://depedtambayanph.blogspot.com/2015/08/deped-beki-language-maaaring-gamiting.html</div>

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Resulta ng action dialogue ng ACT sa DBM tungkol sa update ng PBB

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8Kg40c6ffiDaiNFv6VDhDTG8HyHuQAPSwwyYonPw_cw6FuHjdeqDxZrmTrOIWOlukatNjeGcdYC6LSALWDDs0pegn-UV7FxBkD87MXv4AIGg_V8AupvGhLm6z9BnZiBS0ClGwVrrfHBU/s1600/pbb+update+nov+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8Kg40c6ffiDaiNFv6VDhDTG8HyHuQAPSwwyYonPw_cw6FuHjdeqDxZrmTrOIWOlukatNjeGcdYC6LSALWDDs0pegn-UV7FxBkD87MXv4AIGg_V8AupvGhLm6z9BnZiBS0ClGwVrrfHBU/s640/pbb+update+nov+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Resulta ng action dialogue ng ACT sa DBM tungkol sa update ng PBB<br /> November 8, 2016<br /> <br /> Nagtungo ang Alliance of Concerned Teachers-NCR, ACT Philippines at Manila Public School Teachers’ Association (MPSTA) para sa isang dialogue tungkol sa Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) sa Department of Budget and Management (DBM). Nakausap ang Office of the Secretary, Organization Position Classification and Compensation Bureau (PCCB) na si Dir. Ryan Lita. Narito ang resulta ng dialogue:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://partners.hostgator.com/c/332713/191545/3094" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="90" src="https://a.impactradius-go.com/display-ad/3094-191545" width="728" /></a><br /> <br /> Novembe 7 lamang nakapagpasa ng huling requirement ang DepEd Central sa DBM;<br /> Dahil nahuli ang pagpasa ng DepEd, isasalang pa ito sa validation ng Presidential Management Staff (PMS);<br /> <br /> Hindi tiyak kung kailan matatapos ang nasabing validation kaya hindi rin makapagbigay ang DBM ng eksaktong araw ng computation para sa release of payment ng PBB;<br /> Tiniyak ng DBM na kapag nasa kanila na ang ating papeles ay agad nila itong ipoproseso;<br /> Mauunang i-release ang Year-End Bonus (equivalent to 1 month Salary) at Cash Gift na P5,000 simula November 15;<br /> <br /> <h3> <a href="https://partners.hostgator.com/c/332713/183672/3094">Get 20% off all New HostGator Hosting plans with Coupon: SNAPPY.</a></h3> <br /> Sinabi rin ng DBM na mayroon ring matatanggap na Productivity Enhancement Incentives (PEI) na P5,000 bago sumapit ang pasko.<br /> <br /> Dadaan pa ito sa mahabang proseso dahil pinagpapasa-pasahan tayo ng DepED at DBM at dagdag pa rito ang pagsasalang pa sa Presidential Management Staff.<br /> <h3 style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://partners.hostgator.com/c/332713/191553/3094" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="280" src="https://a.impactradius-go.com/display-ad/3094-191553" width="336" /></a></h3> Kung hindi tayo kikibo at kikilos ay malamang na hindi pa natin ito matanggap ngayong Nobyembre. Kaugnay nito, inaanyayahan ang lahat na dumalo sa sama-samang pagkilos ng mga guro sa buong National Capital Region sa November 29, 2016 sa 2pm sa Gate 4 ng Malacanang upang makipagdayalogo kay Presidente Rodrigo Duterte. Kasabay nito ay idudulog at ipapanawagan rin natin ang matagal na nating kahilingang dagdag na sahod.<br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">SOURCE: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Alliance-of-Concerned-Teachers-Philippines-330978226941375/?fref=nf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #a0a0a0; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">ACT PHILIPPINES</a><br /> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqkRstYHP0P3-EmXV9KRlxU5_0zkv3dUj2sb6-as9rSwJTj3xoLNORF6yNo1dY47yCvTjZeUFhZ8g7Pf8P1HAeiKLFqNO1FCVpaOgtO1KfYR0jwHgcjLtaA3qLwti_PeYV_IDAlxIYbcB/s1600/194oCzq.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqkRstYHP0P3-EmXV9KRlxU5_0zkv3dUj2sb6-as9rSwJTj3xoLNORF6yNo1dY47yCvTjZeUFhZ8g7Pf8P1HAeiKLFqNO1FCVpaOgtO1KfYR0jwHgcjLtaA3qLwti_PeYV_IDAlxIYbcB/s640/194oCzq.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> Work and classes will not be suspended on November 2, All Souls’ Day, Malacañang said Thursday. </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> All Souls’ Day is a Catholic feast day for remembering departed loved ones. This year, it falls on a Monday. </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> “Pursuant to Proclamation No. 831 issued on 17 July 2014, declaring the regular holidays, special non-working days and special holidays for 2015, <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/371611/news/nation/plan-your-vacation-pnoy-declares-18-holidays-in-2015" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;">only November 1 was included as a special non-working day</a>,” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said in a text message to GMA News Online. </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> Catholics usually flock to cemeteries starting October 31 or the eve of All Saints’ Day, November 1.<br /> <br /> Source: <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/541551/news/nation/november-2-not-a-holiday-says-palace" target="_blank">GMA NEWS</a></div> </div>

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DepEd commends Globe Telecom for its Global Filipino Teachers Program 69 public school teachers from Luzon are new GFT graduates

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkgWBVhXQ2EevTPBaiVK186KN9QmemfqbaBG5m17CI2tCq4ZfWjQ0ItO6dLwhvv3VTnHSNNWVkYwQnJh_ehWD6O4alOFKela070xb6p6fGiPLRNRhWs5gzhIrRey5iYTKba0XaZrChI0M/s1600/image_gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkgWBVhXQ2EevTPBaiVK186KN9QmemfqbaBG5m17CI2tCq4ZfWjQ0ItO6dLwhvv3VTnHSNNWVkYwQnJh_ehWD6O4alOFKela070xb6p6fGiPLRNRhWs5gzhIrRey5iYTKba0XaZrChI0M/s640/image_gallery.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> Globe Corporate Social Responsibility Head Rob I. Nazal (far left) together with graduates of the Global Filipino Teachers – Luzon cluster<br /> <br /> The Department of Education has commended Globe Telecom for its Global Filipino Teachers (GFT) program which equips public school teachers nationwide with necessary skills to efficiently integrate information and communications technology (ICT) in their teaching strategies.<br /> <br /> Speaking in behalf of DepEd Assistant Secretary Rey Laguda during the graduation ceremonies for GFT Luzon Cluster at the Mind Museum, DepEd Director III Demi I. Manuel hailed the GFT program for empowering teachers and allowing them to make significant contributions to learning and achievement.<br /> <br /> "Globe Bridging Communities, the corporate social responsibility arm of Globe, plays an important role in recognizing the contributions made right across the education sector towards nation-building and enabling governmental policies in extending the benefits of ICT in the classroom, in curriculum design and development and in every teacher and student in our country," Manuel said.<br /> <br /> Manuel added that experience has shown that a variety of support and enabling mechanisms must be implemented to optimize the use of ICT by the teachers. While traditional teacher leadership skills and practices are still important, she said that they must also have access to relevant, timely, and on-going professional development.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXOpyxgBJt3-zskdHacHxBcVpL9Kk7aAZ3FDH-z_MnlDIqhIc39Vu-N7FyWywBk8ml-H2zyW7abex2ebjzdwI9lneAWNyenGf0aJmxUOVkppAwRjYCA9QGByOnAa4_fnltwimaKWosQ-W/s1600/how-to-be-your-own-boss-right-out-of-college-683x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXOpyxgBJt3-zskdHacHxBcVpL9Kk7aAZ3FDH-z_MnlDIqhIc39Vu-N7FyWywBk8ml-H2zyW7abex2ebjzdwI9lneAWNyenGf0aJmxUOVkppAwRjYCA9QGByOnAa4_fnltwimaKWosQ-W/s320/how-to-be-your-own-boss-right-out-of-college-683x1024.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ADVERTISEMENT</td></tr> </tbody></table> "We are very happy that the private sector has been very active in helping the education sector in achieving its national as well as global development goals. We also hope that when the GFT graduates go back to their respective schools, they will have new knowledge, new skills, new perspectives and enhanced methods and strategies in ICT integration," Manuel said.<br /> <br /> Sixty-nine mentors from Ilocos Norte, Pangasinan, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Batangas, Oriental Mindoro, Cavite, and National Capital Region received their diploma from Globe and its implementing partner, Coalition for Better Education (CBE), for having completed a five-day live-in training workshop on how to integrate ICT in their respective subject areas such as Math, Science, English, and Heyograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika (HeKaSi). The training is equivalent to three units in a masteral program. GFT, which started in 2009, has trained at least 386 teachers from 374 public schools in various parts of the country.<br /> <br /> Yoly C. Crisanto, Globe Head for Corporate Communications, said that since ICT provides increased teacher motivation and improved student memory retention and comprehension of various subjects, GFT was able to transform computers and the internet from being mere sources of information into instruments of interactive teaching and online collaboration.<br /> <br /> "Globe is committed to be a relevant and innovative leader in maximizing ICT for education in public schools. So we continue to work hand-in-hand with DepEd and our partners as we aspire to help our schools meet 21st century standards in terms of teaching and in giving students access to quality education," she said.<br /> <br /> Jeffrey O. Tarayao, President of the Coalition for Better Education, on the other hand, expressed appreciation to Globe for investing in the public school teachers and ensuring that ICT becomes <br /> really valuable and meaningful to them.<br /> <br /> "CBE is humbled by the fact that we have a partner that truly lives up to the vision of a better education for young Filipinos nationwide. GFT could have been a word, but short of one letter. To be a GFT is to be a GIFT. "I" could mean innovation in teaching. "I" could also mean integrity which every Filipino teacher must protect," he said.<br /> <br /> CBE provides the content of the training modules which include lessons on the proper use of ICT in classroom activities, online assessment, effective and efficient management of class resources, creation of virtual classrooms and moderate discussion boards, preparation of portfolio of classroom project activities, and demo-lecture of the modules prepared by the teachers.<br /> <br /> The teachers are guided on how to efficiently use and navigate through the internet and are given an assessment tool for the adoption of a better grading system. There are also modules focusing on online collaboration as well as on creating projects where they could apply all that they have learned from the training.<br /> <br /> Source: <a href="https://www.globe.com.ph/globebridgecom/iaccess/deped-commends-globe-telecom" target="_blank">GLOBE</a><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.max.com/max/510725/us/en" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8Vw9w-Sywaslvv8p1MbmwEBC_6OfkWsBVUexU72oLWLlS_XIjNG3AFAmyeskpA_3FgZ1ZmqL-SJIILGFGAhrBuE6xMR1QitjwOgRNZQu2XDW-A41ImHkrvTB6nWa3CbB6VeKjou5nbLp/s640/webBanner-riboceine_en.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.max.com/max/510725/us/en" target="_blank">ADVERTISEMENT</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /></div>

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2016 Education Summit to address challenges of the education sector

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuqiSzrHNOploIheJwXl8HU-ZgMiuWNrtMxOSvbU_I-xbzFjtpjyV1ayGI-qCtRDOwCsxMQhnmTO3BZOn8KXEFQ_Sb1azuqPkKxgfyzBfYWrLzd7lZlsT-nwmyhZaJmQz1ygmvMnH_dJ3/s1600/DepEd-Website-header-110px_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuqiSzrHNOploIheJwXl8HU-ZgMiuWNrtMxOSvbU_I-xbzFjtpjyV1ayGI-qCtRDOwCsxMQhnmTO3BZOn8KXEFQ_Sb1azuqPkKxgfyzBfYWrLzd7lZlsT-nwmyhZaJmQz1ygmvMnH_dJ3/s1600/DepEd-Website-header-110px_1.png" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Some 500 stakeholders will gather on November 3 and 4 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City for the 2016 Education Summit to tackle the urgent concerns of the education sector and define the vision and agenda of basic, higher and technical-vocational education in the country.<br /> <br /> Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones said that the upcoming event is a follow through to the recent (sectoral) Social Development Initiatives Summit held in Davao City that aimed to flesh out the social development agenda of the administration.<br /> <br /> The outcome of the Education Summit will be the education sector’s input to the next Philippine Development Plan.<br /> <br /> “Through this summit, we hope to lay down a clear roadmap that will make education accessible, relevant and liberating,” Briones emphasized.<br /> <br /> Part of the 10-point socio-economic agenda of the Duterte administration is to increase spending in basic education and incorporate mandatory education about the evils of drugs. According to Briones, another key focus of the Department of Education (DepEd) is to intensify and expand the Alternative Learning System (ALS).<br /> <br /> Among the issues to be discussed in the summit are:</div> <ul style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"> <li>Linkage of education and the economy;</li> <li>Human resource and management issues in education;</li> <li>Understanding the condition and needs of learners to guide intervention;</li> <li>Digital education and use of technology in the knowledge and information age;</li> <li>Higher education as a force of social and cultural transformation;</li> <li>Higher education as accelerator of innovation and inclusive economic prosperity.</li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <br /> The K to 12 Curriculum and its support system, as well as ALS and its equivalencies, will also be taken up.<br /> <br /> “We prepared a comprehensive agenda for this summit to ensure that all issues and challenges are adequately addressed to allow the trifocal education system to really move forward,” Briones explained.<br /> <br /> Aside from Briones, other key personalities who will take center stage in the summit are Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairperson Patricia Licuanan, and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director Guiling Mamondiong.<br /> <br /> The heads of the three education agencies will share their respective agenda for the education sector, taking into consideration the mandates of the constitution, laws and international commitments, and the directions they have set for their respective agencies.<br /> <br /> <span style="border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">SOURCE: <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://www.deped.gov.ph/press-releases/briones-presents-deped%E2%80%99s-accomplishments-agenda-beyond-first-100-days" style="border: 0px; color: #a0a0a0; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">DEPED</a></b></span></span></div> </div>

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DepEd campaigns for better AD/HD awareness

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <em style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px;">PASIG CITY, October 21, 2016 – </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">In celebration of the 2016 National Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (AD/HD) Awareness Week from October 16 to 22, the Department of Education (DepEd) joins the AD/HD Society of the Philippines in providing the public with much needed knowledge and understanding on the highly misunderstood neuro-biological disorder—Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUBNivnH34xDd5-FqV7jf8zI73Cd9Qyxhs0zq5gDYDwAT1HxbGca0fcH0R0K0subERZPKrBpZv2d4AzVoEA_GQCyJi8HtZ9rX0cXpAL2hrBoiZKtQ7TdqplhjI2rjDusqSwd8SKapzoeV/s1600/ADHDAwarnessMonthHP2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUBNivnH34xDd5-FqV7jf8zI73Cd9Qyxhs0zq5gDYDwAT1HxbGca0fcH0R0K0subERZPKrBpZv2d4AzVoEA_GQCyJi8HtZ9rX0cXpAL2hrBoiZKtQ7TdqplhjI2rjDusqSwd8SKapzoeV/s1600/ADHDAwarnessMonthHP2016.jpg" /></a></div> <br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">With this year’s theme “Turning </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Dis</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">ability into </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">This</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;"> Ability,” the event aims to campaign for persons with disability to be granted equal rights and access to basic services which are often denied to them, such as education, health and development.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">The Department’s objective is to promote public understanding and acceptance of people with ADHD. Increased public awareness on the effects of the characteristics and social issues faced by people with AD/HD may result in increased protection of children from neglect and abuse.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Teaching students with special needs requires deeper understanding of their real condition. Learners with AD/HD tend to experience disorganization, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. While they may want to overcome these, it is not as simple as others may think.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Teacher Marinil Juan of Pasay City SPED Center, who has been teaching learners with AD/HD for 11 years, shared how she’s handling students with these certain exceptionalities.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Acknowledging that people with AD/HD suffer from inattentiveness, Teacher Marinil said, “I give frequent, small breaks, and I also make sure to give them verbal instructions which are not more than 10 minutes each.”</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Teacher Marinil also makes sure that she shares common interests with her students. Based on her experience, this makes her students listen more to her.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">“There should be a balance in dealing with these learners. We must be strict and firm, yet loving and approachable,” she added.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Teacher Russell Agcaoili of La Union SPED Center believes that the best way to handle learners with AD/HD is to be thoroughly informed about their condition. She often reads articles and research about AD/HD to further understand the condition of her students.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">“I design effective and appropriate educational materials for my students by collaborating with a developmental pediatrician and parents, as well as observing my learners’ behavior,” she added.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">People with AD/HD often suffer from negative stereotypes from the public, which the DepEd, AD/HD Society of the Philippines, and other agencies and organizations aim to correct through the celebration of the National AD/HD Awareness Week.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">“People would think that kids with AD/HD are unaware of their behavior or actions. But my students come to me and say ‘Ma’am, I can’t stop moving’ and ‘</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px;">Di ko kayang pigilan ang pagtakbo, Teacher’</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">,” Teacher Marinil shared.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">She added that these kids are trapped in a body they have no control of, and that these kids need all the understanding and acceptance they can get.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Teacher Russell added, “Persons with AD/HD need to be accepted in the society, and must be given equal opportunities to grow as individuals.”</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Reflecting the same passion in handling learners with special needs, SPED Teacher Nora Pablo of Villamor Airbase Elementary School said, “With proper handling, coupled with a passionate heart, students with AD/HD can learn too—in their own way, style and pace.”</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Many of the people with AD/HD have above-average intelligence, are highly creative, and have the ability to multi-task. With proper management and support, people with AD/HD can live a productive life, and can contribute to the nation’s moral, financial and spiritual recovery.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">The DepEd calls for the participation of all schools, especially those schools offering program for children with AD/HD as well as the Special Education (SPED) Centers.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Some of the efforts and activities to be conducted in schools are hanging of streamers, art workshops for children and youth with AD/HD, exhibit on educational services offered to children with AD/HD, community and parents’ forum on understanding and possible employment of people with AD/HD, among others.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">The annual celebration of the National AD/HD Awareness Week on the third week of October is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 472, s. 2003 signed by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">These efforts are pursuant to the DepEd Memorandum No. 167, series 2016 or the 2016 National Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (AD/HD) Awareness Week which is available online at </span><a href="http://www.deped.gov.ph/memos/dm-167-s-2016" style="background-color: white; color: #04508c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.deped.gov.ph/memos/dm-167-s-2016</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;">Source: <a href="http://www.deped.gov.ph/press-releases/deped-campaigns-better-adhd-awareness" target="_blank">DepED</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /></div> <a href="http://intercaretrainingschool.com/the-program/bartending-nc-ii/" target="_blank"><img alt="InterCare Bartending NC II" border="0" src="http://i67.tinypic.com/4lq5i8.jpg" /></a> </div>

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Briones presents DepEd’s accomplishments, agenda beyond the first 100 days

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones marked her 100</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">th</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> day as Education chief by iterating the Department’s 10-point agenda before more than 190 education stakeholders and partners on Oct. 14, and to the DepEd Central Office employees and some regional and division heads on Oct. 17. </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC17UFop8ZEhIOocl3Qh_y3kdaLkXF_g724_usBOB88Qok8VBWA4H1Pk26wYVvxTRBUWGgdvwAg-l_EPYVZeAWcZXMCc9DWZsJpM21oNP12cJypLBir2EY_TIgmHNDF9eCRHKeLkM4MPOO/s1600/DEPED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC17UFop8ZEhIOocl3Qh_y3kdaLkXF_g724_usBOB88Qok8VBWA4H1Pk26wYVvxTRBUWGgdvwAg-l_EPYVZeAWcZXMCc9DWZsJpM21oNP12cJypLBir2EY_TIgmHNDF9eCRHKeLkM4MPOO/s1600/DEPED.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Laying out the priorities</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Addressing the Central Office personnel during a general assembly on Monday, Briones presented an update on her administration’s first 100 days. She also laid out a 10-point agenda, emphasizing how this is based on her team’s vision and the priorities of the Duterte administration.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">However, Briones was quick to assure continuity of the key programs of the previous administration.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">“Hindi dahil bago ang Secretary o dahil bago ang administrasyon, ay bago na ang lahat. Kailangan may continuity. Kung anuman ang ginagawa natin ngayon, it builds on the past and present programs,”</em><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> Briones said.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">The Secretary also acknowledged the basic challenges of the Department, such as raising the quality of education, making education accesible and relevant to the urgent needs and opportunities of the country, and making education truly liberating.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">What the Department has done so far</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">1. Confronted the inherited problem of budget underutilization and spending backlogs</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">As the country’s biggest bureaucracy with the biggest budget allocation, Secretary Briones explained the need for an efficient organization to help in the delivery of basic education.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">DepEd promptly convened a mid-year review of Project Procurement Management Plans (PPMPs) to catch-up on procurement especially of big-ticket items, explored inter-agency mechanisms in obligating allocations for hard-to-move items in the 2015 budget, and constituted an Education Program Delivery Unit to ensure effective, efficient and timely execution of programs, projects, and activities.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">2. Responded to the President’s education directives</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">In response to the marching order of the President, DepEd is strengthening the preventive drug education component in Science and Health by providing real-life lessons and alternative learning methods to make the delivery much more realistic and effective, starting Grade 4. Gender and development component of school curricula, especially in relation to sex education and teenage pregnancy, and environmental awareness and disaster preparedness, are being reinforced.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Aside from enhancing drug education, expanding the reach of ALS is another DepEd program that has President Duterte’s expressed support.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">DepEd is working double-time to revive and expand the coverage of ALS. Alternative learning methods are also being developed for learners in hard-to-reach mountain regions and small islands, as well as densely populated areas.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">3. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Committed to the full implementation of the K to 12</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Secretary Briones reiterated that the continuation of the K to 12 program is not to please the international market nor to cater to the private sector, but to serve the interest of the Filipinos and the country.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">The anticipated large number of drop-outs and massive displacement of teachers did not occur. There are more than 1.5 million Grade 11 enrollees and more than 36,000 teacher items were created for Senior High School (SHS).</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">4. Defended the President’s budget in Congress</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">The launch of SHS demands even more resources. To support the curriculum needs, provision of additional basic resources is underway: P15.5 billion will be allotted to hiring 53,831 teachers, P3 billion for 55.8 million learning materials, P4.5 billion 8,833 science and math equipment packages, and P7.3 billion for 7,260 TechVoc tools and equipment packages.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">On October 19, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the 2017 General Appropriations Act (GAA) that will provide P3.35 trillion national budget to finance government operations in 2017. P567.5 billion is allotted to DepEd, the biggest budget allocation among all government agencies.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Reforms for the long term</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">1. DepEd identified procurement and management system as major roadblocks. To address these, DepEd introduced greater leadership supervision over Finance and Administration: two Undersecretaries for Finance were appointed–one in charge of the expenditure to make sure money flows and is accounted for, and another to manage budget utilization.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">2. DepEd has also met with Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary to reconstitute the Joint Technical Working Group on the Basic Education Facilities and target prompt execution of school buildings construction under the 2017 budget.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">3. DepEd is also establishing an Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) to track the status of the Department's budget releases and disbursements in real time.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Changes in the current planning templates will be introduced to address inflexibility in costing standards and delays in field validation of planned projects.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">“No organization can succeed without an appropriate financial management system which will be used to fund our dreams, promises, and programs,” she added.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">4. In a move to support the campaign against the proliferation of illegal drug use, DepEd convened with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to form a Working Group that will forge a common legal position on drug testing for students and personnel among DepEd, the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) and Technicial Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and implement the comprehensive drug testing initiative in partnership with the Department of Health (DOH).</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">5. One education intervention to help keep schoolchildren in school until completion of basic education is the continuation of school-based feeding programs. The proposal to have the massive feeding program will be reviewed amid budget implications. </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">6. Briones stressed that to be part of DepEd, excellent education credentials are but the minimum qualification. Employees should strive to be more capacitated and informed on the state of education and the needs of the country. Therefore, the agency will introduce curricular and non-curricular programs, and undertake institutional capacity building to be responsive to the aspirations and urgent needs of the nation.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Improvement of the capacity of teachers, education leaders, and DepEd personnel includes the strengthening of DepEd Regional Offices’ capacity in managing and hosting training programs, and the training on curriculum for teachers and ALS facilitators.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">7. Secretary Briones emphasized the importance of integrating, reflecting, and expressing the Philippines’ rich historical experiences in the educational system. She acknowledged the challenges to move away from data and technology to innovation, creativity, critical thinking, and acceptance of and adjustment to changes.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">During the 6th APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) in Peru, Briones said that while Science and Technology is also being offered to students as early as Grade 3 and 4, DepEd is loyal not only to the culture and arts but also to Philippine history and the directions of the development program.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">8. DepEd is eyeing the expansion of the scope of academic and non-academic employee welfare through the improvement of the provident fund.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">9. Department leadership will be active, transparent, consultative, collaborative, and corruption-free. A regular general assembly with the employees will be held to update on the development in the agency. There will be briefings by each Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries with directors on current programs.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">10. Amid concerns and debates, Secretary Briones maintained that the Department will continue partnerships with the private sector.</span><br style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">SOURCE: <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://www.deped.gov.ph/press-releases/briones-presents-deped%E2%80%99s-accomplishments-agenda-beyond-first-100-days" style="border: 0px; color: #a0a0a0; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">DEPED</a></b></span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #595959; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></div> <a href="http://intercaretrainingschool.com/the-program/bartending-nc-ii/" target="_blank"><img alt="InterCare Bartending NC II" border="0" src="http://i67.tinypic.com/4lq5i8.jpg" /></a></div>

DepEd Education K-12 reforms Briones presents DepEd’s accomplishments, agenda beyond the first 100 days

Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones marked her 100 th  day as Education chief by iterating the Department’s 10-point agenda before...

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