Friday, May 22, 2009

Advisers Form Kit (Update)

Advisers Form Kit:

A Spreadsheet File that includes:

Form 18A (Report on Promotions)
Form 1 (School Register)
Grading Sheets (with formulas to get the final rating)
Age table (convenient way to look at the ages of students for June and for May)
Previous Units earned

Automatic filling out of information included. Just check the instructions in the first sheet.

Comments on how to make it better are very much welcome.

Download the file:

Adviser Form Kit for Excel 2003

Adviser Form Kit of Excel 2007


Performance Appraisal System for Teachers

DepEd PAST form B2, encoded in MS Excel. Edit it as you see fit. Download it here!

DepEd PAST form

Thursday, May 21, 2009

form 137 A

Secondary student's permanent record or form 137 A. Encoded in an excel file so that those who want to have their records encoded can have a pattern or format. Another step for minimal paper usage environment. The file is here >>> Download Form 137

DepEd Form 137 spreadsheet DepEd Form 137 spreadsheet sticktoexecute Student's permanent record, or Form 137-A, encoded in an excel spread sheet. Just set the scale to 90% so that it would fit in a legal sized paper.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The Phil-IRI

In our school we have started with the enrollment for first year students, and a part of the process is to undergo a reading assessment exercise. This is in accordance with the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory Program of the DepEd that tends to classify students as "Independent, Instructional or Frustration" in the area of word recognition and reading comprehension. And with the general average of the students, we also used this reading assessment to determine the section the students should be in.

As I have observed, the students who I have handled has minor miscues in terms with their word recognition. But some of them can't even pronounce simple words like "floods" and "kitchen" properly. Their problems were mostly in answering the comprehension questions. This makes me wonder if the problem really is that they did not understand what they have read, or they did not understand the questions given to them. I have even asked one student if he understood what I asked him and he just gave me a blank look. This is alarming. Thousand of students in school who can't comprehend simple English will be a big problem not only to the teachers but also to themselves. Reading comprehension is a big factor for most of the books and references in other subject areas are written in English.

So what now? After classifying the students according to their level of competence in reading, what are we supposed to do?

I remember what we did when we first conducted Phil-Iri in our school two years ago. After the pre-test we had our remedial classes with the first year students where we teach English lessons focusing on reading comprehension. Personally I found it futile, for the strategies implemented were just in the surface level, and long lasting improvement was still to be seen. I am no expert when it comes to reading; and a bit of training and seminar focusing on these would really help us to become effective teachers.

Reading is something loved before being mastered. And in this day and age where students spend more time in front of the TV sets, it is really a challenge to us teachers to bring the love back to the books.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Adviser Kit

I have been working on a project in excel where all the things needed in accomplishing forms (form 1, summary of grades, form 18) is included in just one excel file. I am making it in a point where you only have to type in the name and other infos once and it will automatically be filled in another sheet where the information is needed. Feel free to give comments and suggestions to this project.

DepEd Form 1: School Register


Last year I had my first advisory class in my 2 years and so of teaching in the public school. The first lesson I learned is that the form 1 is the source of most information you will be putting in your form 18 (the banig), and the form 137-a. This forms are available in most bookstores and sometimes given to us by our division offices. Traditionally we write the information by hand, but in our school, we are allowed to encode it in word, print it then paste it on the purchased forms. Not only is this neat, but also it saves us time and we can just copy paste the names and other information to other forms that we are required to complete. Well enough of the chit-chat, the file is in word format and can fit this kind of school register (see picture). The file is here:

http://www.turboupload.com/oozb5qwk1lw4/form1template.doc.html


Launch Pad

This is the first post. Not much of a blogger. I just need a place where I can put all teaching resources I found useful in the profession I am in. So fellow pubic school teachers, hope to see you here and wish that you will also contribute in this project.