Monday, May 12, 2008 Telco extends training on ICT to 25 teachers
THE Cebu Provincial Council recently passed Resolution 894-2008, “supporting Smart Communications Inc. in its Smart Mentors Program, a specialized training and development program for faculty members of partner schools under the Smart Schools Program.”
The resolution was authored by Cebu Provincial Board Members Juan Bolo and Julian Daan.
Smart Mentors was launched in 2007 under the Smart Schools Program, the flagship community service initiative of Smart, which aims to promote information and communications technology (ICT) in basic education.
Under Smart Mentors, 25 faculty members are selected from Smart Schools Program partners nationwide to undergo an 11-month action research course that will earn for them a master of arts degree in instructional design and technology. The program is implemented in partnership with Learn.ph Foundation and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).
This year, Smart expanded Smart Mentors to include faculty members of partner elementary public schools under the Smart Schools Jr. Program. The Smart Schools Program now counts 150 public high school partners and 30 public elementary school partners under Smart Schools Jr.
Among those who qualified from Cebu are Edlyn Bueno of Medellin National Science and Technology School in Medellin and Lorna Granada of Puertobello National High School-Poblacion extension in Tudela. Smart has 17 partner public schools in Cebu City and Cebu Province, of which 12 are high schools and five are elementary schools.
Bueno and Granada are among the second batch of 25 Smart Mentors who are currently undergoing the two-week, live-in learning experience that starts the action research course. (PR)
