How Things Made Easy at LIS

by Gil Camporazo

Learner Information System (LIS) is introduced by the Department of Education to make things easier for the teachers and also for the education agency as well.

Every learner has been issued a learner reference number (LRN) for easy tracking of his whereabout and for the DepEd to maintain a learner registry for that matter.

With the teacher's job made easy especially in providing a complete learner profile and with a voluminous learner data in a centralized registry of learner, the DepEd could have the assurance of genuine, reliable, valid info of those learners for an accurate decision making.

Since LIS inception sometime in 2012, problems, issues and other LIS concerns are great for a teacher to handle and likewise with a limited computer literate teachers, related issues were piling up.

LIS help desk was created to handle those unhealthy situations. With the diligence, invaluable services of those members of LIS team of admins, data issues and corrections guides were created to address effectively and inteligently the common problems which every teacher, ICT coordinator, and even school head confronting everytime they open their LIS school account.

Reading - The Foundation of Knowledge

Kids love to listen to Storytelling before they learn to read. They're too curious, inquisitive as they listen to story told either by their parents, grandparents, and even their teachers while they're in school.

The month of November has been declared by the Department of Education as National Reading Month of every year to stress the importance of reading as the foundation of knowledge.

It is enjoined that every school in the Division of La Carlota must conduct reading session activities storytelling, Read-A-Thon, Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), among others in celebration of the national reading month.

Our school has conducted a storytelling to the pupils of kindergarten, grades one, two and three by different representatives from the pupils’ parent, guardian and local government unit, who volunteered to read stories with respective moral lesson to the pupils. They used the big books for their reading session.

Indigenization of School Curriculum

The Philippines is rich in cultural heritage in various field like historical events, places, people, traditional beliefs and values, produce and products all over the archipelago.

Along this premise, the Department of Education "aims to make the curriculum responsive to the needs of the people in various locations of the country." To this effect, therefore, education program specialists of different region had come up with a series of local data and pieces of information in a seminar/workshop of local curriculum integration.

Moreover, iIn compliance with the DepED goal: "Decentralize the formulation and development of certain parts of the curriculum in order to foster national cohesiveness, and to respond to needs of different regions and ethnic groups" (BSE, DECS 1998), those EPS conducted an echo seminar.

In so doing, School Principal Gil Camporazo, the author, of Cubay Elementary School, after attending an echo seminar conducted by the Division of La Calota City relayed to his 14 teachers in a one-day workshop which was held at the school learning resource center in March 22, 2013.

La Carlota Teachers' Day: More Frolics & Fun

More than seven hundred teachers of the Division of La Carlota did enjoy so much in their one-day teachers' day which they celebrated it too on October 5, World Teachers' Day.

• The Opening Program Speakers

Humble Transformation of Cubay Elementary School

Cubay Elementary School in the Division of La Carlota was physically facelift and transformed into a well-maintained school, conducive for learning since the conduct of Brigada Eskwela, a national maintenance program of the Department of Education every 3rd week of the month of May in which concerned volunteers jointly and severally donated their generous time, efforts and service to what it is now.

As the school principal of this school, I took the following pictures after recess period between 9:45 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. while classes are going on. You couldn't see any pupil loitering around during class hour. They're all inside their classrooms. Only the school principal is going around, observing classes, checking teachers' lesson plans, school forms and other pupils' records.