Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION III
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BULACAN
VIRGEN DELAS FLORES HIGH SCHOOL
NARRATIVE REPORT
ONLINE IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM 2020
JULY 15-17,2020
8:00am -3:00pm via Google Meet
Theme: Continuity of Education and Learning Opportunities in the New Normal
In-Service Training (INSET) is a professional and personal educational activity for teachers to
improve their efficiency, ability, knowledge and motivation in their professional work. The primary
purpose of INSET is to enable teachers to acquire new understanding and instructional skills especially
in this time of pandemic wherein the traditional classroom set- up won’t be observed.
On July 17,2020 ,the first day of the INSET was formally started with the singing on the
national anthem followed by the prayer led by Mr. Marvin Danlag. Our hardworking principal,
Mr. Nilo A. Abolencia gave his welcome remarks. To inspire the teachers especially in facing
this pandemic that the world is experiencing, Mr. Wendell Cabrera Ed. D., the Chief Education
Supervisor at the Regional office delivered his inspirational message.
Mr, Nilo A. Abolencia, the school principal shared the School Learning Continuity Plan for
this SY 2020-2021 and part of it is the survey on the different modalities that the students would
like depending on the availability of their gadgets and the like. .He shared that in division of
Bulacan , the blended learning is to be used except for the face to face learning. The distribution
of module might be gotten in the school or in the nearest barangay hall. The teachers as well as
the LGUs will help in distributing the modules however, a (memorandum of agreement )
between the school and the barangay should be done in helping the school to distribute the
modules. A certain box for each student should be made so that all his/her modules will be
placed on it. He also mentioned that the class schedule is not yet done due to the template which
will be coming from the division office.
Mr. Mon Eric Lomeda , the Science teacher tackled about the School Policy. The school has
plans a and b on what is to be used since everything is still unstable; programs and projects might
still be modified due to this new normal situation. He reiterated that a disinfection mat and
alcohol in every classroom should be ready and the school is in charge of buying them. In order
for the parents to be updated and be oriented, there is an online meeting with them. There should
be information dissemination about the school’s LCP. Physical check-up for teachers and other
school personnel is required and the result should be submitted on July 27, 2020. He also
mentioned that this time partnership is very vital among the local unit, private sector, alumni
association, religious organization and voluntary organization. Also each subject area should
submit a Learning Continuity Plan(LCP).
In the afternoon, a prominent speaker was invited in the person of Mr. Francis Dominique De
Guzman , the Senior Education Program Specialist .He discussed about the Partnership Building
Virgen Delas Flores, Baliwag Bulacan
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in the New Normal and stressed that in planning the stakeholders should always be included .
He shared about the steps in building a good partnership and strong relationship and this was
presented through a PARTNERSHIP acronym and it stands for P-rofiling ,A-ligning, R-
einforcing resources, T-aking on the partnership, N-etworking the partners, E-etablishing shared
ownership, R- ecognizing and celebrating the partners and S-ustaining the partnership; setting
new direction and was shown through a MASK acronym and it stands for M-enu of education
investments for evaluation ,A-dvocate to partners for the retrofitting of their education
program ,S-trategy communication plan at the school level and K-nowledge capacity
development for distance learning competencies; roles of a stakeholders and explained through
the FACE acronym and it stands for F-ind the role of parents for learning, A-ssess and access
technologies that apply to the family’s economic means, C-hild’s teacher and school reach-out
and E-xercise academic creativity. He said that in this new normal each should be very
creative .Parents should be supportive to teachers in this new set up of learning.
The last speaker was Ms. Irene Valerie Cuizon, the Science teacher and the school’s clinic
nurse. Her topic was Remote Psychological First Aid in DRRM. She shared the qualities of
teacher leaders as teachers and some of them were innovative, seekers of challenges and growth,
creative, excellent teaching skills and the like. According to her Psychological First Aid is the
method of helping people in distress so they feel calm and supported to cope better with their
challenges. Teachers are psychological workers for good teaching and learning practices are
considered good psychological practices .However teachers should have to create a comfortable
scenario/atmosphere. The principles of Psychological First Aid (PFA) is to look , listen and link;
listen means showing empathy and warm, giving attention and affirmation; link refers to the
support ,accessing information and tackling practical problems. The teachers should be mission
oriented in order to become psychological workers. She also shared the do’s and don’ts in
handling cases. She stressed that in PFA one should not force anybody to narrate the situation or
to give promises just to get the information or to lessen the burden.
Absolutely with the pool of speakers for this day, all learned a lot of brilliant insights, ideas
and techniques in facing this new normal situation.
Prepared by:
MELARINA DL. VERANO
Teacher 1 Noted by:
NILO A. ABOLENCIA
Principal II
Virgen Delas Flores, Baliwag Bulacan
E-mail:
[email protected]Tel. Nos.: (044) 7665100
