School’s Best Practices

Clarencio Calagos Memorial School of Fisheries

Sta. Margarita, Samar
Unified Classroom Structuring Design
• Issue Addressed : Varying and
unorganized structuring designs
of classroom

• Distinctive Feature: Teachers

are given a suggested layout and contents for them to follow
in structuring their classrooms

• Impact: Classrooms have uniform and organized classroom

structuring
layout and teachers are guided on structuring their
classrooms
Quarterly TOS and TQ’s Writeshop
• Issue Addressed : Late submission
of Table of Specifications and Test Questions

• Distinctive Feature: This is done in

a workshop way where teachers
are required to submit their TOS’s
and TQ’s at the end of the workshop.
This is done at the school’s Junior
High School ICT Laboratory where
teachers are provided with printing materials

• Impact: Teachers are guided on the

preparation of TOS’s and TQ’s and
submit these on-time.
Synchronized Quarterly Examination Days

• Issue Addressed : Late and

advance test administration

• Distinctive Feature: Each class

is given an assigned classroom
as examination venue. Subject
teachers administer their respective
multiple-choice examinations for 50 minutes. The remaining 10
minutes is spent for checking.

• Impact: Test results are readily

available; cutting classes among students
is avoided; organized test administration
 Electronic Test Results Validation Workshop

• Issue Addressed : Late submission

of grade sheets and MPS

• Distinctive Feature: Using the

DepEd-designed e-class record,
this is done in a workshop way
at the Junior High School ICT
Laboratory where teachers are
provided with printing materials.
At the end of the workshop, teachers
are required to submit grade sheets,
ranking, and MPS as workshop outputs.

• Impact: Teachers are guided in

computing grades using the
DepEd-designed e-class record and
submit grade sheets, ranking, and MPS
on-time.
 Monthly Holy Spirit Mass

• Issue Addressed :

• Distinctive Feature: Done every

first
Wednesday of the week at the school
gymnasium where all students,
teachers
and employees participate

• Impact: Strengthened faith in God

 Cards Day and Pasidunggi

• Issue Addressed : Unrecognized

students’ academic achievement

• Distinctive Feature: Academic

performance, issues, and
concerns are reported to parents.
Student report cards are
distributed to parents. Top 10
high performing students are
recognized with their parents
after the distribution of cards.

• Impact: Motivated learners;

increased academic performance
 Campus Day (Pintakasi)

• Issue Addressed : Unclean school

environment

• Distinctive Feature: Parents,

especially 4P’s recipients, teachers
and students, help clean the school
grounds

• Impact: Learners, teachers,

employees, and stakeholders who
are aware and appreciative of the
cleanliness and beauty of the school
grounds
 Departmentalized Conduct of School
Activities
• Issue Addressed : Unorganized
conduct of school activities

• Distinctive Feature: Each

department hosts or conducts
school activities that are in line
with their departmental action
plans as mandated by the DepEd
Division, Regional, or National
Office

• Impact: Organized conduct of

school activities
 Hingadayan: Monthly Professional
Conference
• Issue Addressed : Pressing issues on
administration, finance, curriculum and
instruction

• Distinctive Feature: The conference is

patterned to the proceedings in the
administrators’ conference where the
school and department heads, and subject
area coordinators express their concerns
on their respective departments/area and
are given attention

• Impact: Issues on administrative, finance,

curriculum and instruction are properly
addressed and given attention
 Pagtitirok ngan Pagsasaro: Monthly
Teachers’ and Employees’ Gathering
• Issue Addressed : Lack of teachers’ and employees’ time to
gather and bond

• Distinctive Feature: Teachers and employees gather one

afternoon of each month to bond with foods provided by
birthday celebrators of the month

• Impact: Strengthened relationship among teachers and

employees
 LIS Enrollment Workshop
• Issue Addressed : Late LIS enrollment of
students due to unavailability of
computers and internet connection;
teachers lacking internet skills

• Distinctive Feature: Class advisers are

gathered at the Junior High School ICT
Laboratory, with internet connectivity
and printing materials provided. Guided
by the ICT coordinator, they individually
enroll their respective students into the
LIS

• Impact: Easy and on-time enrollment of

students in the LIS
 Pagkaurusa, Paglipay: Parents’ Day

• Issue Addressed: Weak link or bond with

students’ parents

• Distinctive Feature: Done in one day, the

school hold activities (e.g. medical and
dental mission, sports fest, etc.) for parents
to enjoy. Socialization follows at night.

• Impact: Strengthened relationship between

teachers and parents
 Media in Education
• Issue Addressed: The need to use multi-
media in the teaching-learning process

• Distinctive Feature: Teachers have access

to the school internet wifi connection,
though some of them have their own
pocket wifi for the downloading of
multimedia learning materials to be used in
their classroom activities. Some of them
provided LED television sets and LCD
projectors for use in their respective
classrooms

• Impact: Effective classroom teaching-

learning process
 Family Day

• Issue Addressed: Teacher and

employees lacking time to bond
with their family members

• Distinctive Feature: One or two

days are spent for the teachers
and employees together with
their families to relax and to
rejuvenate with some activities
like parlor games, recollection,
etc.

• Impact:
 Peer / Student Teaching

• Issue Addressed: Suspension of classes due

to school meetings, conferences, and
workshops

• Distinctive Feature: Each subject teacher is

given a Grade 10-Olive student to
substitute him/her in the classroom while
he/she participates in a school meeting,
conference, or workshop. The student
teacher is just given sets of activities and
instructions to facilitate the students in
their performance of the classroom
activities

• Impact: Delivery of the curriculum is not

hampered by school activities; students are
held in classrooms and untoward incidents
are avoided
 Student Documentation of School and
Classroom Activities
• Issue Addressed: Weak
documentation of activities or
provision of MOV’s in Activity
Completion Reports (ACR’s)

• Distinctive Feature: Teachers require

their students to capture pictures or
videos on their classroom and
sometimes school activities so that
pictures, which serve as good
MOV’s, are readily available

• Impact: Readily available MOV’s for

teachers’ and students’ reports
 Curriculum Localization
• Issue Addressed: Localization of
classroom activities in all subjects

• Distinctive Feature: Teachers and

students utilize local, indigenous
materials in their classroom activities,
as mandated by the Department in
response to the implementation of
the K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education
Program

• Impact: Students who are

appreciative of the materials, places,
people, literatures, and culture in
their locality
 Localized Big Book Writing

• Issue Addressed: Leaners

unappreciative of their local
literatures

• Distinctive Feature: Language

teachers organize a contest in writing
stories in Waray or in English
featuring local settings, characters,
and culture and present these in a
big book. Each class of all year levels
are required to submit an entry

• Impact: Learners who are

appreciative of their local literatures
and culture
Local Literature Retrieval and Collection

• Issue Addressed: Disappearing local

literature

• Distinctive Feature: Language and

literature and other subject
teachers and require their students
to collect local stories, (e.g. aswang
tales, humorous stories, etc.), folk
songs, and poems

• Impact: Learners who are

appreciative of their local
literatures and culture
 Indigenized Food Processing
• Issue Addressed:
Expensive fruits,
vegetables, etc. for use in
food processing activities

• Distinctive Feature: Food

processing teachers
suggest the use of locally
available fruits,
vegetables, etc. for food
processing

• Impact: Learners who are

appreciative of their local
food products
 Indigenized Fish Feed Formulation

• Issue Addressed: Expensive fish feeds

for fish culture

• Distinctive Feature: Aquaculture

teachers suggest their students to use
of locally available materials to be
formulated into fish feeds for local
fishpond operations

• Impact: Learners who are appreciative

of their indigenous materials
 SURAT ARAM
• Issue Addressed: Students or budding
campus journalists who can’t experience
the Division, Regional, and National
Schools Press Conferences

• Distinctive Feature: Annually, the School

Publications Office conducts a three-day
campus journalism workshop and
contests with some proceedings
patterned to Division, Regional, and
National Schools Press Conference for the
students to experience the press
conference

• Impact: Competitive and award-winning

campus journalists
 One-stop Enrollment Process

• Issue Addressed: Enrollees and

parents who keep on coming back to
school for unfinished enrollment

• Distinctive Feature: Enrollees

undergo profiling, informal interview,
weight and height taking, reading
test, and entrance examination in
just one to three hours, thus
enrollment when these stages are
completed, an entrant is
automatically enrolled

• Impact: Organized and smooth flow

of the enrollment process
 IPCRF , TIAIP and Departmental Action
Plans Formulation Workshop
• Issue Addressed: Late submission of
IPCRF, TIAIP, and departmental
action plans

• Distinctive Feature: A day is given to

gather the teachers and employees
to orient and guide them in the
formulation of the IPCRF, TIAIP, and
departmental action plans. These
documents serve as their output at
the end of the workshop.

• Impact: Timely submission of the

IPCRF, TIAIP, and departmental
action plans.
School-Based Mock TESDA Assessment for
Students
• Issue Addressed: Minimal number of Junior High School
students who obtain NC II TESDA eligibility
• Distinctive Feature: STVE Teachers (Food Processing,
Aquaculture, and Fish Capture) conduct classroom training,
and mock TESDA assessment to prepare the Junior High
School students for the actual TESDA assessment
• Impact: Increased number of NC II holders
 Indigenized Fishing Gear Construction

• Issue Addressed: Expensive fishing gear

materials for fish capture
• Distinctive Feature: Fish capture
teachers suggest their students to use
locally available fishing gear materials
• Impact: Learners who are appreciative of
their indigenous materials
 CCMSF School Best Practices

Prepared by:

MICHAEL JUDE T. CASALJAY, MAEd

Head Teacher III, Department of Junior High School Academics
CCMSF SBM Coordinator

Noted:

MARINA MURIEL Y. LABID, Ph.D.

Secondary School Principal IV