Good day Readers,
In spite of the short week ( due to the bagyo and holiday ) this week's activities just fell into the swing of things: ESL Practicum, and updates in Administrative professionalism and mini-projects.
During ESL Practicum, we reviewed parallelism and the use of various transitional devices, such as coordinates et. al.. I worked with Students B and B, whose definition of working together/team work was completing the task on one's own and only asking for help if the solution/answer was elusive. Students started exploring "arguments" by sharing their stance about the "Journey through the Wasteland" article.
Director N came back from the conference in South Korea. They accomplished their mission bidding for the Asia TEFL Conference location to take place in Manila, Philippines in 2013. On a low note, she shared news that the Philippines Department of Education might be abandoning the UbD practice as the standard for secondary education curriculum design ( which would be horrible since UbD hadn't taken root yet and it would be difficult to evaluate such a program without substantial data, diba? ).
Several projects are on-going in the office. As for the Book Project, contracts were signed. Also during the meeting, they discussed several issues: royalty, publication and its market, relevance and 'dated-ness' ( timelessness/ article's shelf life ), new deadlines, revisions ( intros/chapter updates ), layout, and contributors' bio. In the Library Project, call numbers were updated, and in the Conference Project, Secretary V prepared Conference Flyers/Brochures.
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