How will you incorporate the four components of managing for excellence? ... mitch

Management per se entails control and putting things into order. In management, it requires ability to do visioning, preparing, planning, implementing and evaluating. In as much as managers plan carefully and critically, implement with efficacy and evaluate thoroughly, it is expected that things will be as how it is foreseen and desired.

Managing for excellence is the ultimate role of a manager, thus, the organization could give better service and will be placed on the pedestal as stipulated in their vision. In line with managing for excellence, there are four components that need consideration and careful attention in order to really achieve “excellence”.

The first component is setting the school context for curriculum reform and innovation. For the Department of Education, since it is a very big organization with complicated structure, the heads will look at the necessary things needed for such changes. They will determine how ready the schools are for the reform. Like the proposed Enhanced K+12 Basic Education Program, before they have presented the proposal they checked first on the status of the schools if they are ready to adapt it. Another example is the reform done by schools itself to improve the curriculum. Like in our case, when our previous school head planned to have a developmental reading program, she sees to it that we have references to use for that 30-minute session everyday and checked if it is possible that we can have it 30 minutes before classes will start in the morning.

The second component is laying the ground for curriculum reform and innovation. It is the building-capacity for school implementation. In this phase, there must be advocacy or information dissemination so that the program or reform will be clearly understood before it will be implemented. The Enhanced K+12 curriculum reform is on its advocacy period wherein trainings and conferences with the communities are conducted in order to let everyone understood the urgency and necessity of the reform and its benefits. In our school, our school head made a conference to explain why we need to have such program and its benefits. With that, the school, its school head and teachers, are ready for the implementation.

The third phase is transforming the school into a learning community. This is now the implementation stage. The schools here are self-directing its school environment. Then, the fourth stage is the assessing the quality of school outcomes. Meaning, the implementation will be evaluated on how much impact it has affected to education and to what extent are the effects.

Actually, these four components is a cycle. The result of evaluation is actually a basis for modification and improvement of the program. It is not really necessary that if there are negative things that are shown in the result the program has to be changed. To really come up with better programs, it is not advisable to change them from time to time. Like the Enhanced K+12, from its name alone, it’s just an improved old curriculum which is the result of the evaluation of the old curriculum that calls for reform.

MPP... Joel Jayme

HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL

As early as 1800, the town was already a Catholic Parish. Most of its occupants were religious enough that when it was separated from Cagayan on November 12, 1830, the First parish priest, Fr. Jose Casals de la Santisima Trinidad took charge on May 1831. A Jasaan Catholic School was also created with other priests as teachers.
It was reduced to a barangay under the jurisdiction of Balingasag in the year 1903 with the occupation of the Americans who governed the country after the Spaniards. Even if it was only a barangay, primary school was built 1930 with the late first teachers, Mr. Eutiquio P. Jacutin, Mrs. Pilar Neri Zayas and Mrs Solis Damilas as head teacher in the Jasaan Primary School, until the war broke out in 1941.
In 1945, the school resumed operation still as primary school. An additional grade level each year was created by then on until the Jasaanons were challenged to work for the restoration of their municipal status. Thus, the Municipality regained its municipal status on August 10, 1948. A year after, School Year 1949-1950, the school offered complete elementary level and known as Jasaan Elementary School with the late Mr. Isabelo Roa as Principal.
After six years, Jasaan Elementary School became Jasaan Central School in the year 1954. Mr. Roa was still the principal with the late Mr. Gualberto Abejo as the district supervisor. Mr. Roa stayed until Mr. Genaro Galenzoga took charge 1965-1967.

When Mr, Galenzoga promoted as Supervisor, Mr. Horacio V. Factura became principal from 1968-1969.
Since then, succeeding administrators contributed a lot in the development of academic performance and even physical facilities of the school and its occupants.
It was during the term of Mr. Rodillo M. Salve that the school became well known. It started the title as, Most Effective School. Different thrusts and programs of DepEd that the school joined not only in the province of Misamis Oriental but in the Region X or even in the National Level. That was 1999-2002 with Mrs. Estrella V. Carlos supervising from 2002 to 2005. After Mr. Salve’s term, another debonair, Mr. Ramon G. Magdale from 2002-2004 took charge of the school as principal.
From 2004 up to June 2007, a workaholic principal, Mrs. Efleda J. Geralde, assigned in this prestigious Jasaan Central School that made her Most Outstanding Principal/Administrator in the Division of Misamis Oriental. She was under the direction of Mrs. Susan D. Bahian, March up to December 2005 the District Incharge and now to Mr. Rogelio L. Cruz as Schools District Supervisor. Another administrator that was promoted being a principal in lieu of Mrs. Geralde who became a District Incharge in Salay, Misamis Oriental is Mrs. Pamfila B. Zarate. She stayed mostly a month in school and then promoted to a District Incharge in Magsaysay l District. A highly respected principal assigned in this prestigious school from July 20, 2007 up to July 8, 2011 is the versatile, kind, man with a great desire to improve the school to the fullest is no other than Mr. Wennie A. Nacasabog. He is starting to work hard for the benefit of the school as well as the pupils and teachers. There are many plans, projects and programs that he wanted to implement during his term. And at present Mr. Joel L. Jayme, Principal II assumes the new post as the new Executive Officer of the school installed last July 8, 2011.
Jasaan Central School is widely known as Most Effective School in Math & Science from SY-2004-2005 & SY-2005-2006 up to the present, because of pupils’ development not only academically, but also through its performance as a whole. For SY-2006-2007, the school passed the First Level Accreditation on Accreditation Program for Public Elementary School given by the Division of Misamis Oriental. The school was also chosen as the Pilot School for Special Science in Grade I and II. With the expertise of the commendable teachers, and of course with assistance of our stakeholders, the General PTA, LGU and other NGO’s, the school’s accomplishments are outstanding.

SWOT
Jasaan Central School is located along Jose P. Rizal St. of Barangay Upper Jasaan, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental. It has a plain terrain. For this school year the enrolment reached up to 1,625 pupils from Grades I to VI. The principal is managing the school with his very active and supportive teaching force, (3) master teacher II, (5) master teacher I, (9) teacher III, (6) teacher II, and (14) teacher I.
On one hand our school has best features that we can consider us as our strengths like committed teachers, very active and supportive principal, with conducive classrooms, has well organized classes, very active officers in the Supreme Pupils Government, and we have a beautiful and attractive school environment. And on the other hand we have also our weaknesses like absenteeism, lack of study habit of pupils, inadequate instructional materials and equipments. And luckily, in the community where our school located there are so many business establishments whom we can tap them to provide us financially through adopt a school program. In spite of these opportunities in the community, there are also threats like distance of the residence of the pupils from school, low educational attainment of parents, low economic status of the family, and family size, and child labor.

PROBLEMS AND ISSUES:
The main problem of the school is the high percentage of malnourished children in Grade I. And here are the causes of the problem lack of nutritious food intake at home, lack of knowledge of parents on balance diet, low educational attainment of parents, low economic status of the family, family size.

This problem is very critical because it affects the total development of the schoolchildren towards their future. In order to address this problem the school management find ways and means like; conducting supplementary feeding program in the school, invite nutritionist to conduct symposium regarding balance diet , the worst thing is that the school has no funding for such programs and projects such as conducting school based supplementary feeding program and others.