Anatomy of opening of classes in public basic education in the Philippines
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Teachers are once again, happy about the opening of classes for SY 2013-2014
Anatomy of opening of classes in public basic education in the Philippines
By
Alfredo B. Ancheta
Anchor for Allvoices
Philippines
On Monday, June 03, 2013, once again, teachers and learners in public schools nationwide will troop to their respective schools. Parents of nursery, kindergarten and grade one learners as well as first year high school students will accompany their children to school. Certainly, school campuses will swell beyond the normal levels. Big and small school campuses alike will become seas if not oceans of humanity. Policemen will be deployed to provide security in vicinities of learning centers and educational institutions of basic education.
Will there be outright classes on Monday? First Year or Grade 7 students in the secondary level who will go to their respective schools for the first or second time may find it difficult to locate their classrooms. Firstly, the students will have to see the bulletin boards where their names, class sections, teacher class-advisers, buildings, room numbers and class schedules were published. They’ll need ample time to familiarize themselves in the school campus to be able to know the different buildings where they’ll attend their classes.
On Monday, classes will out rightly start in smaller schools because of ease and facility to organize classes. However, in heavily populated and bigger schools classes may not start immediately because of difficulty of students to locate their classrooms. There will be much moving of students here and there in search of their homerooms where they will meet with their teacher-advisers.
Similarly, teachers will all be required to report to work on Monday with the initial time in and out for the beginning of the school year. Teacher-advisers whose teaching loads and schedules have been fixed will be expected in “actions with students in their respective homerooms.”
However, teachers without class-advisory loads need to confer with their department heads or immediate superiors regarding teaching loads. Or simply wait for their respective head teachers to give them the loads. However, to avoid being offended by their heads, teachers have to hang-on in the campus while wait for further instructions.
June 03, will also be a day of rectifications and coming up with contingency measures. Changes may be necessary in the teaching schedules, room assignments, provisions of chairs/additional chairs and teacher’s table in every classroom. Also, it will be the first day of “classroom cleaning operations” with students as cleaning machines under the supervision of the teacher-advisers.
Considering the activities expected to be done on Monday, June 03 will be a busy day for all schools of basic education anywhere in the Philippines.
Old and new learners alike must be thankful for such opportunities of going back to as well as going to schools respectively to continue carving-out their future. Each of them must take good care of this opportunity because it will be one's own future.
dhreff is based in Olongapo, Central Luzon, Philippines, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.
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