By
Franklin P. Gumapon
DIPOLOG
CITY – In keeping with the changes in the country’s basic
education, all public elementary and secondary school heads including the
district supervisors of the Zamboanga del Norte schools division have undergone
a five-day enhancement training on instructional supervision and management held
in two batches at the Top Plaza Hotel here on Jan. 27-31 and Feb. 3-7,
respectively.
School
heads and district supervisors from the 35 school districts and some 60
secondary schools in the province turned up to attend the said training which
tackled transformational leadership, curriculum supervision, school management
planning, monitoring and evaluating school programs, and strategic planning.
The
participants underwent a series of workshops to thresh out the issues hampering
Philippine education and to propose certain strategies to address them.
In his
lecture on transformational leadership, Dr. Carl Mark Miniano emphasized that a
school head should have “an exceptional form of influence that moves followers
to accomplish more than what is usually expected of them.”
“Transformational
leadership is a process that changes and transforms individuals,” he said.
Dr.
Danilo K. Villena, on the other hand, underscored the importance of supervising
the curriculum to effectively meet the goals of education vis-à-vis curriculum
development, teachers’ career development, action research, curriculum evaluation,
and group activities.
The
Department of Education (DepED) has intensified its efforts in providing enhancement
trainings to school administrators to get them more prepared in the
implementation of the K-12 basic education program. (PIA9)