The Kasamongan celebration has come a long way from when it started three years back. From a modest showcase at the Institute for Indigenous Peoples Education (IIPE) back in 2005, it has become an evolving tradition with more schools participating in the celebration. This year, Kasamongan staged the “Biya ng Kasamongan” at the new Davao [...]
The Department of Education (DepEd) is implementing the Schools’ First Initiative (SFI), an effort to improve
basic education outcomes through a broadly participated, popular movement featuring a wide variety of initiatives undertaken by individual schools and communities.
The Department of Education’s mission is to attain a quality basic education which is the foundation of life-long learning – education that is equally accessible by all children in Mindanao, regardless of ethnic origin or culture.
The long-time issue of poor quality of education in our country affecting the teaching-learning process can be attributed to several factors. [...]
The BEAM Teacher In-service component has now completed four cycles of teacher in-service workshops, in support to DepEd’s implementation of the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) in English, Mathematics and Science, across all elementary and basecondary year levels.
Eleven (11) regional supervisors, 27 division supervisors and seven division training coordinators across the ten divisions of DepEd Region XI, attended a two-day Orientation Workshop on School Based Management. The workshop was conducted by BEAM’s Region XI School-Based Management last May 22-23, 2008 at the Regency Inn, Davao City as a result of a series [...]
The officers of the Association of Teacher Education Institutions in Mindanao (ATEIM) Inc. were inducted
into office on May 30, 2008 at D’ Azure Room of Grand Men Seng Hotel in Davao City.
BEAM Project recently hosted a national workshop of the DepEd Technical Working Group-Quality Assurance
and Accountability (TWG-QAA) on May 19-20, 2008 at Paradise Island Resort, IGACOS. The two-day workshop was aimed to review the Proposed Student Assessment Policy and action plan prepared by BEAM for possible national adoption by DepEd as part of its Quality Assurance [...]
Budget preparation at division and region levels normally takes five or more days every year; a long and painstaking process. However, with the support of the newly established Human Resource Information System (HRIS) in DepEd Region XI, it was completed in only two days in May this year.
To further maximise the presence of BEAM Access in support to remote communities,in the three regions (XI, XII and ARMM), the extension phase now covers additional packages of support wellsuited to the immediate needs of old Access sites and the different divisions of DepEd XI.
“We aim that all our people here in South Cotabato will have a productive life, that when we look back nobody was left behind…..”
This statement of South Cotabato Governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes inspired all the participants of the 1st Kastifun Festival which was held July 14, 2008 at DepEd South Cotabato Division Office Compound City of [...]
