10th International TOC for Education Conference

Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA

October 12, 2007

Philippines

Land Area 300,076 sq. km

Population 88,706,300

QUEZON CITYTHE PHILIPPINES’ LARGEST CITY

in terms of population size

Land area 166.2 sq. km

Population 2,173,831

Median age 24 years

Philippine Literacy Rate

literacy rate 94.9%

female 94.8%

male 95.1%. 

However, about 2.4 million adults still remain as illiterate mostly in the rural areas.

Quezon City Literacy Rate 98%

Division of City Schools inQUEZON CITY

• 97 elementary schools• 46 secondary schools• 5,467 elementary teachers• 4,000 secondary teachers• 401,756 pupils and students

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

“TOCfE, QC”is an on-going program for improvement of teaching-

learning situations and outcomes in the

Division of City Schools inQUEZON CITY

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

ON GOING TOCfE PROGRAMS

Basic TOCfE Training & Refresher Sessions for

Teachers & Administrators

September 21-23, 2007 Ciudad Christhia Resort

The 150 participants during the opening session

… it’s workshop session

… happy faces of participants who just resolved the conflict in the storyline

Creative presentation of outputs

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

ON GOING TOCfE PROGRAMS

Refresher Sessions for the TOCfE Facilitators and

Curriculum Writers

TOC Tools Training for TOC Curriculum Writers

Dr. Levita U. Ramos, TOC facilitator, updates

the TOC curriculum writers

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

ON GOING TOCfE PROGRAMS

Validation and Implementation of Lesson

Plans integrating TOC Tools

TOC Curriculum Writers Evaluate Teacher-made Lesson Plans Integrating TOC Tools

THE TEACHER USES THE VALIDATED LESSON PLAN INTEGRATING THE CLOUD TOOL

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

ON GOING TOCfE PROGRAMS

Demonstration Teaching Using Lesson Plans

integrating TOC Tools

Conducted on October 4, 2007

200 Elementary Teacher-participants

200 High School Teacher-participants

Elementary Pupil-participants

High School Student-participants

Cooperative and interactive learning using TOC cloud

… working with the cloud

The student explains to the class the lesson using the logic cloud

Mrs. Heidee Ferrer, the demonstration teacher in English I, summarizes the lesson using TOC tool

Miss Presade Bartolome facilitates the post-conference of the elementary demo-teaching

TOC for Education, Inc."To make the wish come true..."

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTMasteral Thesis on TOC application

defended in Graduate School

Integration of Theory of Constraints for Education (TOCfE) Thinking Tools in the Teaching-Learning Process in English for First Year Students of New Era High School, Quezon City Philippines, School

Year 2006-2007.

Plans

• Further refinement of lesson plans using TOCfE Tools

• Development of additional lesson plans in the different subject areas

• Validation, try out, finalization and use of these lesson plans

• Observation of classes in the use of lessson plans and TOCFE tools

• Continuation of TOCFE trainings to target

all untrained teaching and non- teaching personnel and guidance counselors

• Publication of more TOCFE articles in the Division of City Schools Chronicler and other educational journals

• Undertaking of more researches on the effectiveness of TOCFE tools

TOCFE PHILIPPINES