Volume IX Number 2 December 2019

THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BENGUET Wangal, La Trinidad, Benguet

SDS Corner Page 4SDO Benguet Undertakes Run for A Cause for Ailing Teachers Page 10

SDO Benguet launches IYAMAN as mark of governance, leadershipFinding the Benguet culture of grati-tude locally termed iyaman as a mark of integrity, OIC Schools Division Superintendent Benilda M. Daytaca led the launching of IYAMAN as the

‘Iyaman’ highlights convergence with PLGU

SDO Benguet launches.................Page 2

Smarting from the launch of IYAMAN five days earlier, SDO Benguet took time to recognize the efforts of the Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) in pro-viding the needed assistance for the implementation of several programs, projects and activities of the schools division.

By Mac B. Malanes

DepEd approves new 7 integrated schoolsPage 10

‘IYAMAN’ highlights.......Page 2

SALAMAT MABUHAY. Newly-retired Public Schools District Supervisor Gloria M. Suayan (right) re-ceives from OIC-SDS Benilda M. Daytaca her 201 files and plaque of recognition for her long years of exemplary service in education during the Salamat Mabuhay Program in her honor, Dec. 13. -Photo by Wilfred Bagsao

LOYALTY AWARDEES. OIC-Schools Division Superintendent Benilda M. Daytaca (4th from left), who has 25 years in government service and Public Schools District Supervisor Joseph Pacpaco (5th from left), who has 40 years in governement service, lead the group of Loyalty Awardees honored during the Service Excellence for Division Officers and Employees (SEDOE) Awarding Ceremonies held Dec. 13 at the Jewel Igorot Bldg, Km 4, La Trinidad. --Photo by Stephen Bulalin

cornerstone of leadership and gover-nance of the schools division before hundreds of school heads and SDO personnel who converged at the Jewel Igorot Building Function Hall, Km 4, La Trinidad on December 13 to wit-

ness the event, which coincided with the Salamat Mabuhay Program of newly-retired Public Schools District Supervisor Gloria M. Suayan.

By Mac B. Malanes

2 December 2019News

Benguet retains Reg’l Technolympics tilt, places 2nd overall in Math-Science Festival

For the third consecutive year, Benguet retained the overall championship in the Regional Skills Technolympics held November 24-27 in Tabuk City.

Benguet accumulated 128 points to top the skills competitions followed by host Tabuk City which collected 118 points.

Baguio City, which dominated the other events in the Regional Festival of Talents (RFOT), settled for the third place overall with 113 points.

Education Program Supervisor for TLE Samuel Ayangdan proudly an-

nounced after the Division Office person-nel’s flag raising ceremonies on December 2 that Benguet reasserted its supremacy in the different skills competitions involving elementary and secondary learners.

According to Ayangdan, Benguet capped the twin top awards in the second-ary level’s Bazaar Services and Bazaar Products exhibits apart from bagging the first place in the elementary level’s fruit and vegetable carving competition.

Originally called Informing Yearly Accomplishments, Monitoring Assess-ments and Networking (IYAMAN) which was institutionalized since 2016 as a year-ly gathering in each district to celebrate success and strengthen accountability among stakeholders, IYAMAN is now coined as Integrity Yields Accomplish-ments, Modifies Advancement, and Nur-tures excellence.

SDS Daytaca explained that grateful leadership will now be exemplified not-ing that even researches as compiled by Amit Amin in his book Happier Human found the social, emotional, health and career benefits of being grateful.

“Let us make our IYAMAN as the cornerstone of our governance and di-rections as a schools division. Founded on grateful leadership, we ought to be thankful for having countless blessings. To name a few, Benguet is truly blessed for having supportive stakeholders, trust-ed leaders, potential teachers and person-

nel, gifted learners and the like. Let us all capitalize on these and level up by wav-ing our IYAMAN—Integrity Yields Ac-complishments, Modifies Advancement, Nurtures excellence,” the superintendent said.

The launching of IYAMAN became doubly significant after SDO Benguet honored PSDS Suayan for her long years in service to education starting as a class-room teacher in Labilab ES in Itogon to a PSDS who served in Kabayan and Bokod.

PSDS Suayan also served as the Di-vision co-coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples’ Education (IPEd) and Moth-er-Tongue Based Multi-Lingual Educa-tion (MTB-MLE) before her retirement.

Meanwhile, the awarding of school heads, teachers, non-teaching personnel and schools in relation to the Service Ex-cellence for Division Officers and Em-ployees (SEDOE) highlighted the day’s activities. With reports from Rosita Dayag

SDO Benguet launches.................Page 2

‘IYAMAN’ highlights ...from page 1During the convergence with the

Provincial Government on December 18 at the Benguet Capitol, SDO Ben-guet awarded plaque of appreciation to the Benguet Officialdom headed by Governor Melchor Diclas and to the provincial heads of offices for their im-portant support to basic education.

Aside from the governor, those present to received their plaque includ-ed Vice Governor Johny Waguis, Board Member Fernando Balaodan, Provin-cial Liga ng mga Barangay President Melchor Guesey, Acting Provincial Ad-ministrator Brian Camhit, Provincial Treasurer Imelda Macanes, Provincial Accountant Lucia Kisim and Provin-cial Budget Officer Tomasa Atayoc.

The convergence resulted to a re-newed partnership between SDO Ben-guet and the Provincial Government towards the implementation of various programs, projects and activities that would uplift the welfare of the Benguet learners.

OIC Schools Division Superin-tendent Benilda M. Daytaca and OIC Assistant Schools Division Superin-tendent Nestor L. Bolayo led the con-tingent of SDO Benguet in their first exclusive convergence with the Provin-cial Government.

Meanwhile, SDO Benguet settled for the first runner-up honors in the Regional Math-Science Festival held in the same city and dates.

According to EPS for Math Wilfred Bagsao, Baguio City outpointed Benguet by a mere point in the overall Math com-petitions. Benguet, however, topped the Mathematics competitions in the elemen-tary level. – with reports from Jayferd Pulac

December 2019 3NewsThe Schools Division of Benguet topped the overall journalism events in the secondary level but their counterpart in the elementa-ry level landed third place leaving the region’s biggest division to settle for the overall 1st runner up honors during the 2019 Regional Schools Press Conference held in Rizal, Ka-linga on November 24-29.

Out of the 44 contested journal-ism events, Benguet snared 13 first place awards, 7 second places and 10 third place awards. The first to third placers in the individual events and the first placers in the team events in the RSPC were qualified to represent the Cordillera during the prestigious 2020 National Schools Press Confer-ence (NSPC) to be held in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan in February.

The still remarkable achievement of Benguet came in the wake of an unintentional E.Coli contamination of bottled water served to the delegates during the first day of the conference

Benguet settles 1st runner up honors in RSPC

which afflicted a number of partic-ipants, mostly elementary pupils, during the contest proper.

The E.Coli contamination, con-firmed by a lab result, prompted the host school and the host Kalinga di-vision to mobilize paramedics and health personnel who immediately responded to the emergency situation.

Benguet snared the first-place awards in the following events: News writing- Secondary (English), News writing-Secondary (Filipino), Feature Writing-Secondary (Filipi-no), Sports writing-Secondary (Fil-ipino), Photojournalism-Secondary (Filipino), Science and Technology

Writing -Secondary (Filipino), Sports Writing-Elementary (English), News writing-Elementary (Filipino), Fea-ture Writing-Elementary (English), Science and Technology Writing-El-ementary (English), Collaborative Desktop Publishing-Secondary, TV Script and Broadcasting-Secondary (Filipino), and Collaborative Desktop Publishing-Elementary (Filipino).

Benguet also garnered the sec-ond-place awards in the following events: News Writing-Sec (Filipino), Feature Writing-Sec (Filipino), Sports Writing-Sec (Filipino), Column Writ-ing-Secondary (Filipino), Column Writing-Elementary (Filipino), News Writing-Elem (English), Radio Broad-casting-Sec (English), Collaborative Desktop Publishing-Sec (Filipino).

Completing the major awards for the province were the following third-place finish: Feature writing-El-em (Filipino), News Writing-Sec (English), Editorial Writing-Sec (Fil-ipino), Copy Reading and Headline Writing-Sec (Filipino) Column Writ-ing-Elem (Filipino), Collaborative Desktop Publishing -Elem(English), Radio Broadcasting-Sec (Filipino), Online Writing Sec (Filipino), Online Writing-Sec (English) and TV Script and Newscasting-Sec (English).

In related development, Bea Alejaga of Tuba Central NHS and Kalea Anne Adeban of Benguet SPED Center bagged the region’s outstand-ing journalist awards in the secondary and elementary level, respectively. Alejaga and Adeban will represent CAR during the national search for outstanding campus journalists. – with reports from Jennifer Arais and Karen Bosa-ing

2019 Regional Schools Press Conference OVERALL RANKING -Secondary

=================================================== Division Individual Group Total pts Rank Abra 31 9.5 40.5 6th Apayao 26 11 37 7th Baguio City 95 47 142 2ndBenguet 110 45 155 1stIfugao 28 4 32 8th Kalinga 48 11.5 59.5 5th Mt. Province 40 27 67 4th Tabuk City 70 26 96 3rd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

OVERALL RANKING – Elementary =====================================================Division Individual Group Total pts Rank Abra 47 12 59 5th Apayao 29 0 29 7th Baguio City 136 20 156 1st Benguet 59 12 71 3rdIfugao 64 14 78 2nd Kalinga 58 7 65 4th Mt. Province 34 16 50 6th Tabuk City 21 7 28 8th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

With 13-7-10 (gold, silver, bronze) output

Wear Your Crown and Say ‘IYAMAN’

Noting how the culture of gratitude is very evident in Benguet, the schools division has embraced this as a gold-en opportunity to make a difference.

Based on records, DepEd Benguet has insti-tutionalized since 2016 what it calls its yearly IYAMAN or Informing Yearly Accomplishments, Monitoring Activities and Networking before internal and external stakeholders in each dis-trict. The yearly gatherings became important avenues in presenting the status of basic ed-ucation in each town and in recognizing the vital contributions of stakeholders like the lo-cal government units, communities, parents, non-government organizations, private entities and individuals. Also considered as the time for the state of basic education address in each district, the practice caught the attention of DepEd CAR which bestowed to SDO Benguet the Most Exemplar Practice in the region this year in recognition of its yearly IYAMAN.

Dwelling on this internal strength, let us make our IYAMAN as the cornerstone of our governance and directions as a schools divi-sion. Founded on grateful leadership, we ought to be thankful for having countless blessings. To name a few, Benguet is truly blessed for

EDITORIAL BOARD

Macarthy B. MalanesStephen C. Bulalin

Augustin A. Dao-anisKaren L. Bosaing Ellen Begawen

Reporters: Lorelie Balanag

Efren Jacob SupangaMark Lander Felipe

Jim Kis-ingHannah Dio-al

KC Edrienne DosdosClaire PeredoJiyun Tiboldec

Nestor Poltic Jr.Donita Ann Malipe Hazel Grail Aliba Novylyn AcongJane Dugacan

Daniel D. Peredo Jeselle D. Hamadon

Rachel B. BasalongCartoonist: Eljun Arisga, Jr.

Consultants: BENILDA M. DAYTACA, EdD., CESO VI

NESTOR L. BOLAYO LUCIO B. ALAWAS

RIZALYN A. GUZNIAN, Ed.D.

4 December 2019Opinion

BENILDA M. DAYTACA, CESO VIOIC - Schools Division Superintendent

having supportive stakeholders, trusted lead-ers, potential teachers and personnel, gifted learners and the like. Let us all capitalize on these and level up by waving our IYAMAN—In-tegrity Yields Accomplishments, Modifies Ad-vancement, Nurtures excellence.

By continuously being grateful, the ben-efits are enormous. According to the results of more than 40 researches as compiled by Amit Amin in his book Happier Human, grati-tude has a lot of social, emotional, personality, health and career benefits. In terms of social benefits, according to Amin, gratitude results to more friendship, healthier and deeper re-lationship. People expressing gratitude were also found to be more relaxed, more resilient, less envious and have the tendencies to expe-rience good feeling and could recall happier memories. Moreover, grateful people tend to be less materialistic, less self-centered, more op-timistic, have increased self-esteem and more spiritually mature.

In terms of career, grateful individuals tend to experience better management, improved networking, goal achievement, improved deci-sion making and increased productivity. Along with the health benefits of gratitude, embrac-

ing grateful leadership surely creates an at-mosphere for better performance, being pos-itive, and being open to possibilities. With all of these findings, our IYAMAN culture should inspire us in SDO Benguet to exemplify a true service with a heart. After all, we truly believe that Integrity Yields Accomplishments, Modi-fies Advancement, Nurtures excellence. And this is IYAMAN at its best.

Through IYAMAN, we expect to yield the following:

• Innovations and continuous improve-ments • Youth formation in Disaster Risk Reduc-tion Management, research and robotics

• Administrators are actively engaged in School Based Management, responsible Financial and Resource Management • Mobilization and networking with national and international partners • Advancement in human resource develop-ment and administrative process • Nurturing excellence through apprecia-tion, recognition, awards and incentives

The IYAMAN reminds us all to celebrate every Golden Glitter of Glory in Gratitude.

SDS Corner

December 2019 5News

IYAMAN hailed as Exemplar Best Practice, Other major awards bestowed to Benguet

The institutionalized practice of SDO Benguet in gathering its stakeholders in each district to present its yearly accom-plishments and seek their continuous support under the principle of shared accountability and responsibility was awarded as the Most Exemplar Practice in the Cordillera during the Regional Awarding Ceremonies at the DepEd-CAR gym, November 29.

Dubbed as IYAMAN or Informing Yearly Accomplishments, Monitoring As-sessments and Networking activities, the practice was awarded as the most promis-ing practice in 2017 and the Most Validat-ing Practice in 2018.

Rizalyn A. Guznian, Chief of the Cur-riculum Implementation Division (CID) of SDO Benguet who led the conceptual-ization of the practice in 2016, said that the IYAMAN gathering was based on the culture of gratitude of the Benguet people whose sense of community collaborative-ly celebrate good harvest and other bless-ings.

Since its inception in 2016, the annu-al IYAMAN gatherings became avenues for Public Schools District Supervisors/District Heads to present the status of basic education in the district drumming up the continuous commitments among stakeholders.

In the same awarding rites, Benguet capped other major regional awards as follows: Outstanding Supervisor-Sasha Joseph Daganos, Outstanding Level 2 Non-teaching Employee-Nerissa Barbo-sa, Outstanding Secondary School Teach-er-Jardson Onio, Outstanding Secondary School in DRRM-Lepanto National High School, and Outstanding Private School in DRRM-Epiphany Learning Center.

Other finalists included Anfe Calap-en for Level 1 Non-Teaching Employee, Miya Meing for Outstanding Elementary School Head and Loo Elementary School for Best Elementary School.

As result of the validation confer-ence held Novermber 7, 2019, the Mankayan National High School was chosen recipient of the financial assis-tance amounting to PhP 550, 000.00 from the Social Development Man-agement Program (SDMP) of the Lep-anto Consolidated Mining Company.

Realized through the endorsement of the Poblacion Barangay Council, an amount of PhP 50,000.00 shall be used to purchase school needs such as but not

limited to science equipment, computer sets, among others based on priority needs while the PhP 500,000.00 is intended for the repair of one unused school building to be utilized as a school dormitory exclu-sively for female students.

The school noted that the construc-tion of a dormitory, which will be close-ly monitored by a designated personnel , could be part of the measure to avoid teenage pregnancy among students.

This project is also part of the liveli-hood program of LCMC.

Mankayan school is SDM prog recipientBy Daniel Peredo

6 December 2019News

PH Red Cross supports WaSH in School

MANGANESE, ITOGON-The Red Cross- Benguet Chapter donated three water tanks worth 130,000.00 purpose-ly for the use of Manganese Elementary School learners.

Red Cross representative Catherine Danao said during the turn over that the procurement of the water tanks was in re-sponse to the request forwarded by Felic-itas S. Mang-osan, school head.

She added that Red Cross acted on the request as their way of supporting the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) program in school which aims to provide school children a safe water supply for drinking, tooth brushing and hand wash-ing.

The said items were installed at the back of the three buildings through the collaborative efforts of the General PTA Officers and members, parents and teach-ers during the Brigada Plus conducted.

The tanks supply seven classrooms including the Home Economic room and the school canteen. Nine teachers, 219 learners, and parents benefited from the provision of the tanks.

Meanwhile, Danao encouraged the teachers to convince the learners and par-ents to register as a member of the Red Cross of the Philippines to target the 100 percent membership. --Jane D. Dugacan

Korean Grannies perfom dances, songs in Itogon school

The Hepzibah Worship Center For the Nations Group from South Korea per-formed their traditional songs and dance in front of over 700 pupils of Ucab ES last December 9.

At least 748 pupils from Grade 1 to Grade 6, including 23 teachers enjoyed watching the performances of the group. The presentations included a fan dance, basket dance and an interpretative dance, all with a Christian song background. They also sang their traditional music or Jindo Arirang as they call it, with a kore-an drum as an accompaniment.

After their performance, they also gave their gifts to the school which are 2 basketball balls and 2 volleyball balls.

With that, Mrs. Rachel Balacdao, the TIC in the absence of the principal, Sir Jose Gaerlan and Mrs. Cornelia Domagto, the UES Faculty President, expressed the school’s gratitude for choosing Ucab ES as their partner and audience in their pre-sentations.

“The group does this activities as part of their mission here in the Philippines,” said Rev. Judith E. Aniceto, a member of the Itogon Municipal Chaplain, who is their contact person.

It was the second time for the group performing in Ucab ES. This time, the performers were senior citizens while the group who presented last July of this year were mostly children. -- Jeselle Daniel Hamadon

Ucab, Itogon, Benguet – For a while, learners and teachers of Ucab Eementary School here had a glimpse of Korea’s culture through the presentation of a Korean group who performed their traditional dances and songs.

Lessening burden of teachers in lesson planning supported Teachers in Benguet may no longer

need to prepare Daily Lesson Log (DLL) but would instead use DLL exemplars in the future as guide in teaching if the ongoing division-wide collaborative undertaking for this purpose would succeed.

As of December 2, report showed that at least 50% of the targetted learning compe-tencies in the different learning areas were prepared with draft DLL exemplars for quali-ty assurance evaluation. This is in reponse to a previously issued memorandum targetting the preparation and production of DLL Exemplars for use within the divison as one way of lessening the burden of teachers.

Taking a cue from the experience of one division in the Bicol region and based from the recommendations of the Curriculum Im-plementation Division (CID), then Schools Division Superintendent Marie Carolyn Verano issued on July 10 SDO Memoran-dum 187 s. 2019 organizing the committee for the preparation of DLL exemplars in each learning area including Mother Tongue, Kindergarten and the Alternative Learning System (ALS).

Lead by the Education Program Super-visors (EPS) and district heads, each district was assigned a learning area to work on as follows: La Trinidad-Araling Panlipunan; Tublay and Sablan- Edukasyon sa Pagpa-pakatao; Atok- English; Bakun-EPP/TLE; Buguias- Filipino; Itogon I & II-Mathemat-ics; Tuba- Music and Arts; Kapangan-PE and Health; Kibungan-Kindergarten subjects; Mankayan-Science; and Bokod and Ka-bayan-Mother Tongue. The group of ALS facilitators took the challenge to prepare their own DLL exemplars.

As offshoot of the memorandum, the preparation of DLL exemplars became a collaborative endeavor with each teacher expected to contribute at least one or more exemplars, which will be consolidated, re-viewed and quality assured for reproduction later.

The CID spearheaded the first series of quality assurance review of the first batch of submitted DLL exemplars last December 2-3 where it was reported that other districts are still reviewing more outputs.

Based on the pace of actual preparation, the CID exepected to have substantial collec-tions of outputs before the opening of classes next school year.

Once the project materializes, teach-ers could focus their quality time on the preparation of other instructional materials and other interventions to help the learners. MBM

December 2019 7Lathalain

Sa likod ng mga BSP o Scouts ay ang mga SOA (Senior Outfit Advisor). Sino nga ba sila? Ano ang

kanilang mithiin sa buhay upang ipag-patuloy ang pagiging SOA? Bakit sila sumasama sa Scouting? Sila ang mga gurong hindi naghahanap ng karagda-gang kita at sahod pero h a n d a n g s u m a m a , sumuporta, magbahagi at mapagmahal sa mga Boy Scouts ng Pilipinas na aktibong nakikilahok sa bawat aktibidades.

Ang mga SOA mula sa Luzon, Vi-sayas at Mindanao ay hindi gaanong kila-la sa Kagawaran ng Edukasyon. Maliban sa sila ay nagtuturo sa loob ng silid-aralan bilang pangunahing gampanin, sila rin ay handang makibaka at ipaglaban ang kanilang mga anak na Scouts sa panahon ng kaguluhan. Sila ang mga magulang ng mga Scouts na handang magbigay protek-siyon sa kanilang mga anak sa panahon ng sakuna at kalamidad o anumang pang-yayari sa panahong sila'y nasa Jamboree.

Oo, parang madali pero hindi. Ang SOA ay di maaaring makalingat kahit san saglit, parang tigre o leon ang pang-amoy upang ang mga anak ay hindi mawala o mawalay sa kanyang grupo.

Hindi man sila gaanong kilala, at

walang mataas na posisyon sa ating li-punan, mataas naman ang kanilang nar-arating, mahirap pero masaya ang buhay ng SOA. Pangiti-ngiti pero puno ng pag-asam na sana ang mga anak ay laging ma-lusog habang nasa lugar kung saan natu-tuto ang mga anak ng mga kasanayan, na kung minsan wala sa klasrum, hindi sakop

ng curriculum guide, pero nakatutulong sa paghubog at pagpanday ng pag-uugali.

May panahong ang SOA (Senior Outfit Advisor) ay magiging Superman, wonder woman, magician, manggaga-mot, manghuhula, karpentero, drayber, electrician, plumber, dakilang ina at ama, tagapamagitan, donor, bangko,at kung ano ano pa.

Ang SOA kadalasan sa Scouting, nawawalan pero nabibiyayaan. Nalulu-sutan ngunit pinapakinggan. Walang pro-mosyon, walang kasikatan pero pag nat-apos ang gawain, napupuno ang puso ng kayamanang di mananakaw ninuman....

Kung minsan naririnig natin ang katagang Scouting lang yan, di kasama sa programa ng Deped? Hindi kailangan, personal, atbp.

Pero ang tanong? Nasubukan na ba nilang kumain nang walang pinggan dahil inunang ipinahiram ang pinggan sa anak? Naranasan na ba nilang pumila sa poso o sa balon ng oras ang hinintay para makai-gib ng tubig?

Naranasan ba nilang hindi matulog masiguro lang na ang mga Scouts lahat

ay nakatulog? Naranasan kaya nilang manggamot nang walang gamit, guma-wa ng bahay kasama ang mga anak sa bundok? Nara-nasan ba nilang magsurvive

at mamuhay malayo sa luho? Higit sa lahat, naranasan kaya nilang

maging haligi ng bawat tent kapag ito'y sinisira ng dilubyo?

Oo, ilan lamang yan sa karanasan at gawain ng isang SENIOR OUTFIT AD-VISOR sa Scouting. Bagamat walang karagdagang kita, pero masasabing ma-rangal at maayos na kalimitan, hindi gaanong binibigyang prayoridad. Ang biyaya ng isang SOA ay mula sa puso, munting pasasalamat at pagngiti ay sa-pat na. Ang araw mula umaga hanggang hapon ay palaging ‘Good Morning’.

Laging nakangiti ang SOA upang laging matagumpay ang mga BSP. Ito lamang ay munting pagbabahagi mula sa isang karanasan. Hanggang sa muling pagbabahagi. Nawa'y dumami pa ang su-muporta sa mga SOA, at makilahok. Ito'y isang napakagandang oportunidad upang hindi mawala ang itinuro ng ating mga ninuno noong unang panahon.

Buhay Senior Ooutfit Advisor

PANINIGURO NG KALIGTASAN. Kabilang ang mga delegado ng Benguet sa mga inilikas sa ligtas na lugar mula sa Camping site ng National Jamboree sa Zambales bago ang pananalasa ng Bagyong Tisoy, Disyembre 5.

ni Cynthia V. Calavera

8 December 2019News

As part of the preparation for ensuring proper coaching and conditioning of athletes for the Provincial and CARAA Meets, a total of 130 teacher-coaches from the public and private elementary and secondary schools of Benguet and Benguet State University (BSU) par-ticipated in the International Perfor-mance Sciences Athletic Development Series organized by Benguet State Uni-versity led by Institute of Human Ki-netics director Rex John G. Bawang at the BSU gymnasium held in two series last October 18-20 and November 22-24, 2019 respectively.

Dr. Timothy M. Dornemann, a certi-fied Strength and Conditioning Specialist from Wilson, North Carolina and Direc-tor of International Performance Sciences of the United States Sports Academy and

Benguet teachers relearn coaching, conditioning thru Int’l Seminar

an assistant professor at Barton Colleges under Exercise Sciences, served as the re-source speaker.

The first series focused on how coaches will condition and strengthen their athletes with their proper execution of Warm-Up, Dynamic Movements, Core Drills, and Agility Training while the sec-ond series focused on Reset, Speed, Plyo-metric Strength and Power Training.

BSU provided the meals and snacks of the participants and facilitators during the first series while the Provincial Gov-ernment funded the meals and snacks during the second series through the co-ordination of the Schools Division of Benguet.

As an extension activity of BSU co-

KIBUNGAN, Benguet – The Kibun-gan National High School here marked its 36th Foundation Anniversary last October 31 with Vice Governor Johny Waguis as the guest of honor and speaker.

With the theme, “Strengthening Stakeholders’ Partnership towards Ed-ucational Excellence,” Waguis empha-sized the importance of the participation of different partners in the attainment of the school’s noble goals.

Before hundreds of students, teach-ers, parents and local officials compris-ing the members of the Sangguniang Bayan, the vice governor pointed out that the celebration became opportune time to give credits to those people who worked hard for the establishment and operations of the school enabling it to produce a number of promising gradu-ates over the years.

“You celebrate so that you will not

By Lorelie D. Balanag ordinated to DepEd Benguet, the seminar was maximized purposely for the teach-er-coaches of the province to prepare for the Provincial Athletic Meet on Decem-ber 8-12 and other higher competitions like CARAA Meet.

This is to improve performance of the teacher-coaches in leading their athletes to perform better because based from last years’ result, Benguet Division ranked fourth during the regional athletic meet, two places down from its original stand-ing in the previous year.

The university and the division of-fice came up with this activity as an off-shoot of the recommendation from the post CARAA assessment conference that coaches still need to enhance and rebuild their coaching and conditioning strategies to their athletes.

Kibungan NHS marks 36th Foundation Day

By Julia Bag-ayan and Martes Calasan forget the vision of the people who estab-lished the institution 36 years ago. It is a reminder that as its foundation, KNHS was established to inspire the people of Kibungan so that they become good and responsible citizens and leaders of the community,” said Waguis who was ac-companied by Provincial Board Member Robert Canuto.

As a tradition during each yearly foundation day, KNHS alumni mem-bers who recently passed professional board examinations and those who re-cently graduated in college with honors received plaques of appreciation. Among the awardees were: Judith A. Cadaw-it, Lucille B. Angel, Jovy Ann G. Domin-glos, Julie A. Domes, Decenia A. Tayan, Everly Joy L. Wance, Krenzel P. Cayad-an and Mizraim P. May-os for passing the Li-censure Examination for Teachers; Hen-aro N. Hilario Jr., James A. Domes and Bernhard Kamlon A. Baso for Bachelor of Science in Criminology; Lany Claire

L. Laoana and Charlie L. Apopot in the field of Agriculture; Jefrix L. Dominglos as Certified Forester; Marilyn E. Tawang for Nutrition and Dietitics; Aldrin A. Al-odos in Social Works and Javino A. Deg-si for Mechanical Engineering.

Cherry P. Cuyan, who graduated as Cum laude in Bachelor in Hotel and Restaurant Management, was also hon-ored.

Municipal Engineer Antonio P. Kito, an Alumnus of the school, initiated since 2010 the awarding of plaques to these board passers and college graduates with honors.

Sumalia Cayad-an, Kibungan Mu-nicipal Treasurer and also an alumnus of KNHS, represented Kito during the program.

Certificates and Plaques of Appre-ciation were also given to the employ-ees who rendered their services in the school for several years. Among them were: Spencer C. Dao-anes, Elizalde B. Dao-anis and Martes M. Calasan for 15 years; Julia D. Bag-ayan who served for 20 years and Genia L. Marcelo for her 30 years of service.

December 2019 9News/Research

As part of its advocacy to disseminate and uti-lize research results conducted in the division, the School Governance and Operations Division together with the Curriculum and Implementa-tion Division in partnership with the Province of Benguet held its 1st School Division of Ben-guet Learners and Teachers Research Confer-ence on October 21-23, 2019 at Teachers Camp, Baguio City.

In line with this, senior high schools all over the division of Benguet were enjoined to submit student researches for screening and as a result, all four submitted student researches of La Trinidad National High School were accepted for presentation during the said event.

“Encountering Ghouls: The Fears and Coping Mechanisms of Transfer Students” is a re-search conducted by the group of Celia Dondon, Eugene L. Gamboa, Cynthia Ross C. Nasingao, Mark Jimbber D. Velano that looked into the fears faced by transfer students in their new environ-ment and what coping mechanisms they used to deal with these fears. Results showed that transfer students feared rejection from school mates, the requirements and the strict rules and regulations of the new school. Coping mechanisms employed were one of self- reflection and relying on their classmates and friends.

The second research is entitled “The BIG Impact of Teacher Compliment to Students’ Academic Performance” by Maribel C. Balan, Shanel Diwani B. Laro, and Kristine Monique D. Velano. The research delved into how teachers’ compliments affect performance of the students with BIG as an acronym representing the results of Boosting confidence, Influencing development, and Giving motivation.

“The Cs of Giving and Receiving Face-book Reactions: Exploring their Meanings and Effects” is the third research paper presented with Ronald D. Condaya, Marve A. Deli, and Clarence

SHS joins 1st Benguet Research ConfabBy Rachel B. Basalong

S. Estangki as authors. This research delved into the reasons why grade 10 male students give cer-tain Facebook reactions and what are the effects of receiving Facebook reactions. Results of the study showed that the participants gave reactions to champion (to show support), to convey (to rep-resent how you expressed the current emotion you felt from the post), and to commend (to show your appreciation towards someone’s post). In receiving reactions, participants were affected which is rep-resented by three C’s (Creates negativity, Crush or Compound Self-esteem, Cultivate Positivity). Cre-ates negativity speaks of when receiving negative reaction, it creates negative emotions for receivers

about themselves. Cultivate positivity means that receiving positive reaction can also bring positive emotions or positive outlooks about themselves. Crush or Compound Self-esteem refers to how re-ceiving reactions can also increase or decrease the self-esteem of a person.

Jackylyn I. Amado, Von Novemor R. Dangatag, and Marian M. Gambulao conducted a research entitled “Relighting the Candle of Faith of Terminally Ill Patients: The PAVE Method” explor-ing the method used by pastors to help terminally ill patients back to their faith. Results showed that pastors used the PAVE method with P for praying, A for asking, V for visiting and E for encouraging. Accordingly, this method is effective as many of their counseled terminally ill members went back to worship with them.

These researches were conducted by the stu-dents in their Practical Research I: Qualitative Re-search subject.

Practical Research I and II are required ap-plied subjects in the Senior High School curricu-lum where students are introduced to qualitative and quantitative researches respectively and are taught the processes of conducting researches un-der the two approaches. This culminates with the last subject for research which is Inquiries, Investi-gation and Immersion where learners are expected to produce a fully conducted research.

The conference aimed to a strengthen the ad-vocacy of combined learners and teachers results as basis for planning and policy recommenda-tion not limited to the field of education, to guide learner and teacher researchers in the continuous conduct or implementation of quality researchers in the division through recommendations and sug-gestions from expert, and to develop and improve teachers and learners public speaking and partici-pation in conferences for more opportunities; and d. to improve the culture of research in the division by aligning it to the changes brought about by ad-vances in research process and standards.

Grade 12 student Cynthia Nasingao presents her research before panelists 1st School Di-vision of Benguet Learners and Teachers Re-search Conference on October 21-23, 2019 at Teachers Camp, Baguio City.

Early Language, Literacy and Numeracy (ELLN) program through School-based Learning Action Cell (SLAC) is one of the interventions from Kinder to Grade 3 of the K to 12 Basic Education Program. ELLN program is a component of Learning Equity and Ac-countability Program Support (LEAPS) or Project Leaps funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BRD LEAP). The study aimed to monitor the implementation and impact of the said pro-gram in Benguet. The study involved five (5) districts with 20 schools in each district.

The study used a quantitative survey design – close-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire was pilot tested. Cronbach’s Alpha was used and yielded a score of 9.0 for reliability and validity. Stratified and simple random techniques were used in selecting the respon-dents after subjecting the population to Slovin’s formu-la for sampling. Before floating the questionnaire, the strand-operating procedure was followed and permis-sion from the Schools Division Superintendent down to the respondents was obtained.

By Wilfred C. Bagsao, PhD

Mentoring Through School-Based Learning Action Cell of Early Language, Literacy and Numeracy: An Evaluation Research

The level of agreements of school heads on the rel-evance of the implementation of the ELLN program on learners’ development was above the researcher’s basic assumption with a score of 2.51 – 3.25 to 3.75, which is described as strongly agree. A significant difference on agreement of school heads along the 15 indicators was recorded in 5 indicators namely: a) It serves as an area to learn new things needed in the classroom; b) It serves as an area to relearn concepts, which were forgotten or taken for granted in teaching; c) It aids in addressing roles and responsibilities of teachers and school heads for students development; d) Students will learn more if their teachers regularly engage in continuous profes-sional development; and e) It gives creative and innova-tive ideas for teachers to deliver their lessons.

Results showed that the ELLN implementation in five districts varied. The school heads performance on pedagogical knowledge, skills and attitude after and during the conduct of phase 3 ELLN-SCLACs were

above the researcher’s basic assumptions of 1to 2 level of improvement and no significant difference was not-ed, which means that the teaching and learning prac-tices were improved and enhanced on daily routine work of teachers and school heads. School heads were better equipped to help their teachers and point out where they might improve because of what they learned through the ELLN-SLACs. On the other hand, the is-sues or problems encountered by teachers and school heads in the pre-implementation, implementation and post-implementation stages were almost the same. The data showed that school heads and teachers have com-mon issues or problems; thus there is a need for them to work and support each other to address the issues or problems. This enhanced camaraderie among teachers and school heads within schools/districts/division.

(Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt of the Ab-stract of the evaluation research by Wilfred C. Bagsao completed on October 2019 after availing the Basic Edu-cation Research Fund (BERF) last year.)

10 December 2019News

The Schools Division Office of Benguet successfully carried out the first- ever Run for A Cause on December 10 in Wangal, La Trinidad, Benguet.

Dubbed as Takbo Para sa Guro, the event was organized to raise an amount for 20 identified teaching and non- teach-ing personnel in Benguet who have health problems and are currently undergoing medication or are scheduled for medical treatments and operations.

To jumpstart the activity, the runners participated in a short zumba dance at the Provincial Athletic Grounds facilitated by SDO staff and volunteer teachers from Tawangan- Lusod National High School and Kabayan National High School.

Distances ran were 3, 5, and 10 kilo-meters, all following a route that started and ended at the Wangal Sports Complex grounds. It was opened to both beginning and professional runners. Medals were awarded to the top three finishers while certificates of participation were given to all participants and volunteers.

The event was originally scheduled last October 5, 2019 as part of SDO Ben-guet’s initiative in looking after the wel-fare of teaching and non- teaching per-sonnel at a time for the World Teachers’ Day Celebration.

Although it was included and made part of the 2019 Provincial Athletic Meet, it was conducted as originally designed in observation of the 2019 World Teachers’ Celebration.

It was organized by the Social Mobi-lization and Networking unit of the Divi-sion Office through the Senior Education

SDO Benguet Undertakes Run for A Cause for Ailing Teachers

By Stephen Bulalin Program Specialist Mayclaire Jimenez with the support of various volunteer groups and individuals.

The Benguet Public School Teachers and Employees Association (BPSTEA) led by its President Marcelino Baldo helped in coordinating and organizing the committee for the activity while the Rousers Club of the Philippines- Cordil-lera Chapter, Igorot Riders Group, Flex Gym Riders, Cordillera Comprehensive Action Team, La Trinidad MDRRMC, Ta-puey Event Planners and other groups and associations served as Route and Traf-fic Marshals, Security/Peace and Order Team, and Clean Up and Medical Team.

On the other hand, the Signs of Suc-cess, Guada Water Station, and Dejavu Printmore Enterprises among others pro-vided the supplies and materials needed for the event.

Aside from the main purpose of gen-erating proceeds for the identified DepEd personnel the event also supports one of the department’s advocacies of promot-ing good health through healthy lifestyles like engaging and participating in fitness events.

In his message, Lucio Alawas, the Chief Education Supervisor of the Schools Governance and Operations Division ex-pressed gratitude to all who participated and volunteered which led to the success-ful conduct of the activity.

He also expressed hope that the event will become a regular activity with in-creased support and participation. With reports from Mayclaire Jimenez

La Trinidad National High School required its teaching and non-teach-ing personnel to observe the proper se-quence of the conduct of flag raising and lowering ceremonies.

Through School Memorandum No. 1, School Principal Mana C. Estakio, re-minded the teachers of RA 8489 on the observance of Flag and Heraldic Code of

DepEd approves new seven integrated schools

Noting the need to ensure access to quality basic education, the Department of Education-CAR approved last month the establishment and operation of seven more integrated schools in Benguet.

These schools, which already start-ed opening grades 7-9 this school year, are Nawal Elementary School in Bokod, Sagpat ES in Kibungan, Saguitlang ES in Tuba, Lam-ayan ES in Mankayan, Am-limay ES in Buguias, Bad-ayan ES and Cayapas ES, also in Buguias.

The Datakan Integrated School in Kapangan was first approved in 2017 be-coming the first integrated school in the province.

With these new integrated schools, SGOD Chief Lucio Alawas appealed to the Benguet Provincial Government to continue hiring locally paid teachers un-til such time that these integrated schools will be given permanent teaching items.

La Trinidad National High School awards certificate of honesty to students who return or submit to school authorities any lost cash or valuables found in the campus or along their way to school.

The school observed that many students have honestly returned to the owner or submitted to school authori-ties any lost valuables especially cash that they have found.

Said certificate states, “Where-fore, his/her admirable deed of hones-ty and moral uprightness is worthy of commendation and emulation.”

The Supreme Students Govern-ment (SSG) is in charged in the iden-tification and awarding of certificates to deserving students.

Awarding of certificate of hones-ty is done immediately after the Flag Raising Ceremony.

LT school awards honesty cert to students

LT school requires proper observance of flag codethe Philippines and DepEd Order 50. se-ries 2015 about the Conduct of Flag Rais-ing and Lowering Ceremony.

Said memo also emphasized the rec-itation of the Panunumpa ng Lingkod Bayan by teaching and non-teaching staff every Monday.

Meanwhile, recitation of interfaith prayer after singing the Lupang Hinirang shall remain enforced.

By Augustin Dao-anis

By Augustin Dao-anis

Dinaig ng tambalan nina Brix Dulay at Jhem Matulay ng Kapangan ang karibal na duo ng Kibungan na sina Keziah Luis at Gill Andrei Eliw, 1-3, 3-2, 3-2 upang maiposte ang kampe-onato sa Provincial Athletic Meet Table Tennis Men's Singles-dou-bles-singles (SDS) match sa DepEd Division Office Hall, Disyembre 11.

Natapos ang mainit na sagupaan ng dalawang koponan sa pagpapa-kawala ni Matulay ng nagliliyab na drivespin upang maangkin ang deci-sion round ng singles match kontra

kay Eliw, 11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 10-12, 6-11.Sa pagsulpot ng ika-limang set ng

doubles match, sumailalim sa butas ng karayom ang Kapangan nang pitong beses na tumabla ang puntos, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8, 9-9, 10-10, 11-11 bago tuluy-ang makabawi sa pagkatalo sa unang singles match nina Dulay at Luis, 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 10-12, 11-13.

Marami ang naitatalang outside at netballs ni Dulay sa pagsisimula ng kanilang single match na sinamantala naman ni Luis at nagpasiklab ng mad-isdiskarteng placings gamit ang back-

Kapangan table netters, sumungkit ng gintoNi Jiyun Tiboldec

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children’s baseball title. Mankayan, which settled for 7th place overall, retained its sec-ondary baseball crown.

BSU, which landed sixth overall with 23-33-28 medal tally, ruled the Muay Thai events, wushu and secondary futsal.

Atok snared two gold medals in ele-mentary girls swimming to avoid a com-

plete sweep by La Trinidad and Tuba of the medal-rich swimming events. Atok also ruled the secondary boys and girls’ billiards.

Kibungan had also its shares of golds in elementary pencak silat apart from gar-nering two gold in elementary badminton. Even bottom-dwellers Bakun and Kabayan had their moments of glory by snaring 2 gold and 3 golds, respectively in athletics. With reports from Imelda Espiritu

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Bokod, Benguet – Bilang bahagi ng pagdiriwang ng National Disaster Resilience Month na may temang “Kahandaan sa Sakuna’t Peligro para sa Tunay na Pagbabago,” ini-lunsad noong Hulyo 31 ang palihan sa pagtuturo ng Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) sa mga mag-aaral ng Senior High School ng Da-clan National High School.

Nagsilbing tagapagsalita si Jeremy Teofilo, Nurse II, sa nasabing palihan na isinagawa ng paaralan bilang kaisa sa paghahanda ng komunidad saka-ling magkaroon ng isang sakuna.

Binigyang-diin ni Teofilo ang ta-mang pag-aaruga ng puso, ang pagka-kaiba ng stroke, heart attack at cardiac arrest at kung paano maiiwasan ang mga ito.

Tinalakay din niya ang tamang proseso sa paglapat ng CPR sa isang pasyente bilang paunang lunas habang hinihintay ang ambulansyang mag-dadala sa ospital.

“Handa akong takbuhin ang mun-do basta ang finish line ay nasa puso mo,” huling hugot lines ng nars.

CPR, binigyang-halaga ng SHS sa Bokod

hand chop upang maangkin ng Ki-bungan ang unang round, 11-7, 7-11, 11- 8, 11- 3.

"Nagpractice kami nang nagprati-ce. We prepared ourselves for the pres-sure that we will encounter," ani Matu-lay bago ang laro.

Ito ang unang gintong nasungkit nina Dulay at Matulay matapos silang natalo sa nakaraang 2018 Provincial Meet kontra La Trinidad na ngayo'y nalaglag sa ikaapat na pwesto.

Samantala, dadalhin ng tambal-an nina Dulay at Matulay ang prob-insya ng Benguet para sa darating na CARAA Meet sa Pebrero.

Ni Novylyn B. Acong

AGARANG PAGTUGON. Mabilis ang pagresponde ng Emergency Medical team noong 2019 Benguet Provincial Meet upang masiguro ang kaligtasan ng bawat atleta tulad ng basket-bolistang ito na nasaktan sa kalagitnaan ng laro, Disyembre 11. –Kuha ni Efren JC Supanga

Tuba, with strong showings in arnis and swimming, stood a far second overall with 61-55-58 gold-silver-bronze medal tally fol-lowed by Itogon at a distant third with 39 gold-53 silver-56 bronze medals.

Leaning on its strong finishes in sec-ondary girls’ gymnastics and in combat-ive sports like pencak silat, Muay Thai and wrestling, Buguias emerged the 4th place overall.

Owing to its dominance in secondary

La Trinidad asserted its supremacy in all the medal-rich events hauling a whop-ping 195 gold-109 silver-81 bronze med-als to rule anew the 2019 Benguet Provin-cial Athletic Meet held December 9-12 at the Benguet Sports Complex in Wangal and in other several playing venues of the capital town.

La Trinidad's Emerson Batanes bagged the gold medal for 1,500 Meter Run Sec-ondary-Boys after clocking 4 minutes and 25 seconds during the 2019 Provincial Ath-letic Meet at the Benguet Sports Complex, December 10.

Alvin Songyap, also from La Trinidad got the silver medal with a time of 4 minutes and 57 seconds.

Itogon lass bags gold in WAG Balance Beam

Yvhonne Karylle Dumangeg of Itogon outmatched her fellow competitors to bag the gold in Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) Cluster 2 for Balance Beam during the 2019 Provincial Athletic Meet held at Puguis Elementary School, December 10.

La Trinidad’s Verna Kate Suclad and Febrille Tewac settled for the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Dumangeg's grace while executing her routine along with her showcase of strength, flexibility, and ability during the routine performance wowed the audienc-es and judges.

Balance beam is an event in artistic gymnastics and one of the cores of com-petitive gymnastics. Participants perform different routines like handsprings, saltos, turns and others on a four inch wide solid beam. --– BeNHS-main SPJ team

SPORTSLT rules Benguet Prov’l Meet anew

With a recorded time of 5 minutes and 4 seconds, Bakun's Rainer Tandoc pocketed the bronze medal.

A double gold medalist in the 1500 and 3000 meter run during the 2019 CARAA Meet in Apayao, Batanes’ victory enables him to seek anew the gold medal in the up-coming regional meet. – BeNHS-main SPJ team

arnis, elementary volleyball boys, second-ary sepak takraw as well as other gold medal haul in combative sports, Tublay pulled off the greatest surprises with 24 gold-16 sil-ver-30 bronze medals to land the 5th place overall dislodging perennial challengers

BSU and Mankayan. While the medal haul of La Trinidad al-

ready comprised 45% of the 434 gold medal at stake, other districts made their presence felt by winning their specialized events.

For one, Sablan lived up to its reputa-tion as the haven of volleyball champions by reigning supreme in the secondary boys and girls’ volleyball apart from its strong show-ings in wushu.

Kapangan also topped the boxing events with three golds while it retained its

LT bags gold in 1.5K Meter Run

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–Photo by Efren JC Supanga