Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

DOMAIN 2: MANAGING SCHOOL OPERATIONS

AND RESOURCES
Strand 2.6: Identifying Emerging Opportunities and
Challenges
SESSION OBJECTIVES:
 Identify emerging opportunities and challenges in addressing the needs of
learners, school personnel and other stakeholders.
 Discuss how to utilize the identified emerging challenges and
opportunities to address needs of learners, school personnel and other
stakeholders and improve the school performance level.
 Consciously develop a proactive way of thinking in seeking for
opportunities in challenging situations to improve self and others by
keeping a daily reflection journal to record one’s efforts and successes.

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Group Task
1. Group the participants into 5.
2. Some aspects of education will be considered.
a. Learning materials d. Safety and psychological wellbeing
b. Teachers’ workload e. Forming linkages
c. Assessment of learning
3. Groups decide whether they favor current situations or not.
Reason for choice will also be included.
4. Groups publish their answers in manila paper.
5. Each group reports their outputs in 2-3 minutes.

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Learning Modality
What and Why What and Why
Learners Different learning modalities cater to the unique Some families do not have gadgets for
needs of learners requirements to be submitted online

Teachers Able to contextualize how to teach the learners Extra effort in preparing for the different modalities
according to their available resources

School Learners will be taught according to what Reproduction of learning materials very costly
Heads resources they have

Parents Have options according to their available tangible Do not have the time to teach the child
and intangible resources

Other Can help according to the need of the school Too many concerns of schools thus the need to
Stakeholders identify the school’s priority they will support
Template of Group’s publishing in manila paper.

Aspect of education _______________________________________

What and Why What and Why

Learners
Teachers
School Heads
Parents
Other Stake-
holders

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• Emerging opportunities and challenges
• SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
Threats): Steps in
identifying opportunities and challenges
• Actionable Strategies Using TOWS

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 Opportunities in School How to address this issue:
Success  Expand conceptions of
learning and well-being as
• current definitions and measures of they relate to educational
success need to reflect the full range of success
what learners know and able to do and  Align outcomes and
operations to support
what we already know is important for broader narratives and
human development measures of success
 Broaden assessments to
• Dominant ideas of success may not fully reflect a wider range of
reflect individuals’ and communities’ human development.
aspirations and understandings of what it
means to live a fulfilling life or to
contribute productively to society
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 Opportunities in School How to address this issue:
Engagement  Bring more student, teacher and
• New tools and processes for cultivating family voice and agency – and
more forms of engagement – into
engagement, along with heightened
school governance and decision
expectations for having a say in what
making
happens in society and organizations are  Cultivate civic engagement and
changing how governance works and community contribution
what people expect from it  Treat the community as a
• expanding notions and recognition of learning landscape to enhance
where, when and how learning happens and extend opportunities for
learning
are continuing to push the boundaries of
 Develop new educator roles that
traditional schools and educator roles
help achieve new aims.
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 Opportunities in School How to address this issue:
 make effective use of technology and
Technology use other developing tools without
• Use of technology becomes more powerful and sacrificing student and educator ability
to use it or causing further inequity
became a primary part of education, stakeholders
 incorporate new neuroscience-
will need to attend to questions related to trust,
informed tools, insights and practices
bias and individual ability to use it
to support learning while also
• increasing insights into cognitive function, along respecting learners’ rights in deciding
with more and more tools and practices designed when and how to use them
to translate those insights into individual supports  Implement safeguards to ensure that
and interventions, will raise questions about how data strategies and the use of
emerging technologies support
much agency learners and their families have
learners in ways that align with the
schools’ culture and aims
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Opportunities in School
Learner and educator capacity
• Even as an expanded array of
technological tools raises questions
related to equity and agency, these same
tools could have the potential to extend
learners’ and educators’ capacity in and
beyond learning environments. Finding
appropriate uses of new tools that align
with desired learning cultures and
practices will be essential. So will
supporting all learners in being wise
consumers of these tools – and in going
beyond that to help steer their use and
development.
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How to address this issue:
 Support learners in understanding
and directing their rights and
responsibilities in interacting with
an expanded range of digital
technologies
 Help learners explore different
platforms and applications while
encouraging them to be creators
 Provide educators with digital
partners or other smart tools –
and appropriate training and
support — that enable them to
focus more on student
relationships
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 Challenges in Schools
• Equity
• Contextualization and Relevance
• Child-friendly Teaching and Learning
• Sustainability
• Balanced Approach
• Learning Outcomes

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 Challenges: Dimensions of QUALITY EDUCATION
•Equity access to opportunities and resources
• biased or unfair policies, programs, practices, or situations
contribute to a lack of equality in educational performance,
results, and outcome
relating the curriculum to a particular setting, situation
•Contextualization or area of application to make the competencies
and Relevance relevant, meaningful and useful to learners

• Downloaded trainings and instructional materials

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 Challenges in Schools
recognizes and respects the range of rights of
•Child-friendly
children and not just their right to be
Teaching and Learning
educated
• Need to promote inclusiveness, strength-based education, development of
character strengths, creating least restrictive environments, and fostering well-
being among the school community, including students and teachers
awareness of how all things are connected and make
Sustainability well-considered choices for the greater good of all
• Challenges in implementation; monitoring and evaluation and
appropriate adjustments of programs and projects

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 Challenges in Schools

•Balanced Approach for the wholistic development of the learner

• Still leans onhttps://childhope.org.ph/education-issues-in-the-philippines/

one type of learning: factual information
• Outcomes not integrated

•Learning
Outcomes quality performance based on instruction
• Weak development of literacy and numeracy skills

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SWOT Analysis HELPFUL HARMFUL
(to achieve objectives) (to achieve objectives)
Factors to Strengths Weaknesses
• Internal assess
environment:
strengths and INTERNAL
weaknesses of the FACTORS
organization
• External
environment: Factors to Opportunities Threats
opportunities and assess
threats from the EXTERNAL
environment FACTORS

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 SWOT Analysis
understand the key issues affecting your
organization
Advantages of

spot and deal with weaknesses

minimize risks and deter threats

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SWOT Analysis
capitalize on opportunities

take advantage of strengths

develop goals

identify strategies for achieving goals

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Actionable Strategies using TOWS
Main purpose of TOWS analysis is to develop four groups of different
strategies:
a. Strengths–Opportunities - use internal strengths to take
advantage of opportunities
b. Strengths-Threats - use strengths to minimize threats
c. Weaknesses-Opportunities - improve weaknesses by taking
advantage of opportunities
d. Weaknesses-Threats - work to eliminate weaknesses to
avoid threats.

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Actionable Strategies
OPPORTUNITIES
(external, positive)
STRENGTHS Strength-Opportunity Strategies
(internal, Which of your school’s
positive) strength can be used to
maximize the opportunities
you identified?
WEAKNESSES Weakness-Opportunity
(internal, Strategies
negative) What actions can you take to
minimize the school’s
weaknesses using the
opportunities you identified?
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THREATS
(external, negative)
Strength-Threats Strategies
How can you use the school’s
strength to minimize the
threats you identified?
Weakness-Threats Strategies
How can you minimize the
school’s weaknesses to avoid
the threats you identified?
 Factors in Determining Opportunities
The cognitive framework of an individual determines how he
perceives opportunities.
(1) the active search for an opportunity,
(2) the alertness to perceive an opportunity and
(3) prior knowledge and experience

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Traits for Overcoming Challenges
Believe in Yourself
• Your attitude and your perception determines your success.
• Whatever you focus on most is what you will get in the end.
• Find a way to remove negative things, people, places, or situations around you.

Determination
• Have a Plan B… C … D….
• Without a Plan B, when times get rough, you are more likely to look for solutions.
• You grow because you must try new things. Learn new skills. Get out of your
comfort zone.
• Having a backup plans means you have a chance to rise to the challenges.

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Traits for Overcoming Challenges
Persevere
• Success will take some time and effort.
• When things get tough, you need to refocus and remember why you are after your goal.
• It is hard to stick with the goal and work towards it day after day when you can not see the
results right away.

Openminded
• Having an open mind and a willingness to change your approach when
things aren’t working is a must.
• Getting stuck in your ways and being stubborn can kill your dreams; the ability to
pivot is a useful trait a successful person can cultivate.
• Once you start monitoring your actions, you begin to see patterns.
• Some things that you try will not work.
• Things that you thought wouldn’t work are more successful.
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 Traits for Overcoming Challenges

Humble
• Realizing that you don’t have all the answers is crucial.
• The ability to ask for help is a huge indicator of your future success.
 Someone, at some point, had the same issue that you are having now.
 That means that you have tons of resources on how to solve your
problems.

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 Major incidents in your own school
Opportunities Challenges

Possible PAPs Solutions

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 Leaders DON’T WAIT.

They shape their

own frontiers.

The bigger the

CHALLENGE, the
greater the
OPPORTUNITY.

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The Current Education Issues in the Philippines — and How Child hope Rises to the Challenge
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DO 40, s. 2012 – DepEd Child Protection Policy
DM 73, S. 2006 – Child-Friendly School; System (CFSS) at the Elementary and Secondary Levels

DO 011, s. 2020 Revised Guidelines on Alternative Work Arrangements in the Department of Education During the Period
of State of National Emergency Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

DepEd Order No. 031 s, 2020 – Revised Guidelines for Assessment and Grading in Light of the Basic Education Learning
Continuity Plan
DO 78, S. 2010 – Guidelines on the Implementation of the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP)

Equity - https://www.edglossary.org/equity/

Education Secretary highlights role of education in social equity, well-being

https://www.deped.gov.ph/2019/09/27/education-secretary-highlights-role-of-education-in-social-equity-well-being/
RA NO. 6713- Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees
Republic Act 8525, or the “Adopt-A- School Act”
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Prepared by: MYLA B. CORDIAL
School Principal I
SDO Catanduanes
Evaluated by:
SUSAN S. COLLANO FATIMA B. BUEN
Schools Division Superintendent Schools Division Superintendent
SDO Catanduanes SDO Masbate City

MELCHIZEDEK C. TONGCO CORAZON FATIMA SILERIO

Schools Division Superintendent Education Program Supervisor
SDO Tabaco City SDO Naga City

ORFELINA O. TUY
Consultant

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