Revisiting the UP GE Program

Construction of a Progressive, Comprehensive GE:“Heightening, Deepening, Broadening, Quickening GE”

Gisela P. Concepcion, Ph.D.OVPAA

BALANCE…

• COMPETITION VS. COOPERATION

(BIOLOGY VS. ECOLOGY)

• SELF and NON-SELF INTERESTS

(SURVIVAL AND PROGRESS –> SUCCESS)

• NATIONALISM VS. INTERNATIONALISM

(PRIDE VS. HUMILITY)

THE UP GRADUATE IN PHILIPPINE AND GLOBAL SOCIETY

• A PERSONAL LIFE OF COMMITMENT TO HONOR AND EXCELLENCE

• LIFE LONG LEARNERWITH ZEST FOR LIVING, KNOWING,

BECOMING, CREATING, CONSTRUCTING, PROGRESSING, AND HIGHER ORDER/LEVEL THINKING

• FEARLESS OF CHANGE – OF IMPERFECT PERTURBATION AND EXPERIMENTATION, AND OF SELF-CORRECTION

• STRIVING FOR BALANCE AND CONTINUITY OF LIFE, AIMING FOR THE GREATER HIGHER GOOD

A UP “Signature” GE CORE KNOWLEDGE, VALUES AND SKILLS (KVS)

• pervasive life-long learning; constant self-improvement to attain competencies and innovativeness

• ethics, civics and public mindedness (guiding philosophy, balance and

continuity of personal, family, community, national, regional and global good), national pride and global orientation, (also GMRC, global civics, etiquette)

• research and creativity (curiosity/sense of wonder complemented with critical, inquiring, investigative, quantitative, abstractive, integrative mind, and innovation, construction, language and other communication skills) – higher order thinking

• progressive, constructive leadership (expert/specialist with broad foundational knowledge who can work with experts in other fields)

• multi-, inter-, trans-disciplinary approach to creating holistic goods, products, services, systems, lifestyles and providing holistic solutions to complex problems in society (art, culture and science are one)

• entrepreneurship (value chain/network of innovations/creative output translated to sustainable, productive use/applications for society )

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A UP GE PROGRAM that develops the SKILLS and COMPETENCIES of students

Scientific, Innovative, Creative:ExperientialIntuitive/SensitiveInquisitiveEmpirical/ObservationalExperimentalRational Investigative Organizational Critical Balancing Analytical Integrative Relational Iterative Directional PredictiveQuantitative Mathematical Computational Statistical ProbabilisticInterventional Creative Constructive Innovative

Communication:Language: Reading Written Oral ElectronicBeyond language: Multi-media Graphics “Body language” Visual Art, Music Total Performance

Social Context: SpiritualCulturalHistoricalSocialPoliticalEconomic

Personal Development:of “Mind”“Heart”“Hands, Limbs”

Substance Form(Multi-, (BlendedInter-disciplinary learning) Content) Above Implies MULTI-, INTER-TEACHER COURSE

E-learning (pervasive, liberating 24/7 student learning)

Traditional didactics (lectures) and evaluation tools

complemented with

Modern blended learning methods (teacher inputs balanced with student learning outcomes) “FLIP” classroom

Blended learning methods (teacher inputs balanced with student learning outcomes)ACTIVE/INTERACTIVE• Small discussion groups (face-to-face and e-groups ) to hone argumentation and oral communication skills to build student’s self-confidence and leadership (groups of students w different majors/backgrounds)• Reading assignments and oral reports to foster love of reading and inquiry

and search for new knowledge with guide questions from teacher (FLIP)• Research and creative project proposals to develop inventive, constructive,

innovative, creative and discovery skills• Problem sets and case studies to develop analytical and critical thinking• Tutorials for essay/precis writing to develop integrative thinking and self-

expression• Field/extension work, laboratory visits, and constructive projects to

promote relevant thinking and action, civics and public mindedness (volunteerism, NSTP)

• Exams and quizzes to instil discipline of learning and test mastery of knowledge

• Creative, innovative inter-disciplinary proposals developed by individual or groups of students on basic, fundamental unasnwered questions, solutions to problems in society.

PASSIVE/IMMERSIVE• Live lectures of outstanding

professors, scientists, artists, professionals, leaders, innovators, creators

• Outstanding MOOCS (massive open online courses) and e-materials

EXAMPLE: INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE IN AN ADVANCED UP GE COURSE

• Learn Biology• Learn Biology, Symbiosis and Ecology• Learn Evolution• Learn Biological Structures• Learn Biomolecular Strategies• Learn Principles of Specificity, Switching, Catalysis, • Product Turnover• Learn Cooperativity and Sigmoidal Kinetics • Learn Signal Processing, Network Signaling, Amplification Signaling

AND DRAW COMPARISONS AND INSIGHTS FOR SOCIAL, DYNAMIC, PROGRESSIVE CHANGE

1 STUDENTS

2 FACULTY

3 RESEARCHERS/CREATORS

4 COLLABORATORS

5 TEACHING

6 RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

7 EXTENSION

8 PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES

9 ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT/ACCREDITATION

10 PUBLIC SYMPOSIA/e-COMMUNICATION

11 RECOGNITION,COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

12PUBLIC DISSEMINATION & SHOWCASE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

13 UP’s PRODUCTS: GRADUATES

14 PUBLIC GOOD

15 PUBLIC ISSUES

16 GOOD GOVERNANCE

17 ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

18 EXTERNAL SUPPORT - ALUMNI, GOV’T., PRIVATE SECTOR, LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL

18EXTERNAL SUPPORT - ALUMNI, GOV’T, PRIVATE SECTOR, LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL

16GOOD GOVERNANCE & 17ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

ACADEMICS

13Graduates -BS/BA/MS/MA/PhD

PublicationsAcademic output

14Public good forMAN & NATUREPrivate good

Technology transfer

Commercialization

10PUBLIC SYMPOSIA , “e-UP” COMMUNICATION11RECOGNITION, COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

12PUBLIC DISSEMINATION AND SHOWCASE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

8 for PUBLIC SERVICE

U.P.

1STUDENTS

2 FACULTY

3RESEARCHERS/CREATORS

4COLLABORATORS

UP Community/ other comm.

Nation/Provinces

SEA RegionWorld

6RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

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ISSUES

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OUTPUT

18EXTERNAL SUPPORT - ALUMNI, GOV’T, PRIVATE SECTOR, LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL

16GOOD GOVERNANCE & 17ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

ACADEMICS

13Graduates -BS/BA/MS/MA/PhD

PublicationsAcademic output

14Public good forMAN & NATUREPrivate good

Technology transfer

Commercialization

10PUBLIC SYMPOSIA , “e-UP” COMMUNICATION11RECOGNITION, COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

12PUBLIC DISSEMINATION AND SHOWCASE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

8 for PUBLIC SERVICE

U.P.

1STUDENTS

2 FACULTY

3RESEARCHERS/CREATORS

4COLLABORATORS

UP Community/ other comm.

Nation/Provinces

SEA RegionWorld

6RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

7EXTENSION6c

6d6b

5TEACHING

6a

15ASSESSMENT

PUBLIC

ISSUES

9

18EXTERNAL SUPPORT - ALUMNI, GOV’T, PRIVATE SECTOR, LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL

16GOOD GOVERNANCE & 17ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

ACADEMICS

13Graduates -BS/BA/MS/MA/PhD

PublicationsAcademic output

14Public good forMAN & NATUREPrivate good

Technology transfer

Commercialization

10PUBLIC SYMPOSIA , “e-UP” COMMUNICATION11RECOGNITION, COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

12PUBLIC DISSEMINATION AND SHOWCASE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

8 for PUBLIC SERVICE

U.P.

1STUDENTS

2 FACULTY

3RESEARCHERS/CREATORS

4COLLABORATORS

UP Community/ other comm.

Nation/Provinces

SEA RegionWorld

6RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

7EXTENSION6c

6d6b

5TEACHING

6a

6RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

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6RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

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OUTPUT

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Transparent, accountable,

and participatory governance

Rapid, inclusive, and

sustained economic growth

Poverty reduction and empowerment of the poor and

vulnerable

Just and lasting peace and the

rule of law

Integrity of the environment and

climate change adaptation and

mitigation

Higher Education and R&D

junior high senior high college/university

2012-2013 1st yr freshmen (17) sophomore (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2013-2014 2nd yr freshmen (17) sophomore (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2014-2015 3rd yr freshmen (17) sophomore (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2015-2016 4th yr freshmen (17) sophomore (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2016-2017 5th yr (17) sophomore (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2017-2018 6th yr (18) junior (19) senior (20)

2018-2019 freshmen (19) senior (20)

2019-2020 freshmen (19) sophomore (20)

2020-2021 freshmen (19) sophomore (20) junior (21)

2021-2022 freshmen (19) sophomore (20) junior (21) senior (22)

K to 12 Implementation Schedule

Propose to:

• Continue GE mini conferences• Identify GE teachers as fellows of a GE Center• Hold system wide GE conference• Create UP GE website• Share GE materials across CUs• Arrange summer months in another CU to

teach GE courses• Offer to train teachers handling K11 and K12

GE courses

I

2001 CDD AwardeeCaesar A. Saloma

Professor of Physics College of Science

ChancellorUP Diliman

2010 CDD Awardee Evelyn Mae T. Mendoza

Institute of Plant Breeding College of Agriculture

UP Los Baños

2003 CDD Awardee Edgardo D. Gomez

University ProfessorEmeritus Marine Science Institute

College of ScienceUP Diliman

2002 CDD AwardeeRomulo G. Davide

2012 R Magsaysay AwardeeProfessor Emeritus of Plant

PathologyCollege of Agriculture

UP Los Baños

2004 CDD Awardee Glecy C. Atienza

Departamento ng Filipino at

Panitikang FilipinoKolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura

UP Diliman

2005 CDD Awardee Martesio C. Perez

Professor of NeurosciencesCollege of Medicine

UP Manila

2006 CDD Awardee Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.

Professor of EnglishDepartment of English &Comparative Literature

College of Arts and LettersUP Diliman

2007 CDD Awardee Eduardo A. PadlanAdjunct Professor

Marine Science InstituteCollege of Science

UP Diliman

2008 CDD Awardee Ameurfina D. Santos

National Institute of MolecularBiology and Biotechnology

College of Science UP Diliman

2009 CDD Awardee Priscelina P. Legasto

Professor of Comparative Literature

Department of English &Comparative Literature

College of Arts and LettersUP Diliman

2011 CDD Awardee Carmencita D. Padilla

Department of PediatricsCollege of Medicine

UP Manila

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OVPAAformer AVPAA Marilou Nicolasformer AVPAA Antoinette HernandezAVPAA Alyssa Peleo-AlampayAVPAA Rhodora AzanzaOVPAA Staff

PAEP Team

UP System GE Council

OVPAA PDAs for GE in 2011-2012Dr. Alleli Domingo, Dr. Miguel Fortes, Dr. Helen Yap, Dr. Rolando Panopio, Dr. Gilda Uy, Dr. Nes Rañeses, Dr. Merle Tan

Dr. Perry Ong

Fireflies

Fresh from being cats we walk The dimming pavement. The airis hung with softly purring rain.Lightning falls to earth only midway, or perhaps it is simply waiting for us to meet it with pointy rods, our bodies stretching out from eyes raised skyward. Ah, we have become too small evenfor that, like lizards slinking past the gaze and feet of lovelorn people.We like the ground and keep close to it, our hearts beating among the rocks.We fear our shadows casting themselvesAgainst the woodwork flanking us, weaving in and out of the spindly selves of bamboo.But tonight promises we may not be known, and we feel strangely, if temporarily, at peace.We hug the darkness like a happy thought.

But it may not so easily be had, this nothingness that warms on a night that looks like rain. The lesson hereis meridian: halfway into the wooden roadwe make our own, a dot of airborne light.A tunnel's end flinging itself at us?Suddenly no path stretches darklybeyond our pussyfooting steps.has opened to us a misty corridor of stars.(Or have we stumbled into it by chance?)I say I no longer will tease my Death you can't get me, sticking out my tongue.ou say nothing, which doesn't go to showsomeone is telling the truth. Oh, whytalk about truth that blinds with its dazzlingcloak of sun, or darkness lying through its blackened teeth! To think of themis pure folly, my friend, when fireflies show us love is so much of both, just before the rainscome to wash our fragile twinkling stars away

- J. Neil C. Garcia.

lParable of Stoneslby Gemino H. Abad

lEvery time I go intolthe world’s morning, my pocketslare full of stones.

lYou cannot see themlwhere my hands are hid,lsometimes bruised by their edge.

lAnd a quick and deadly aimlI have, and ask no questions.lMy hands are cold.

lAnd few stones left I havelat each day’s end,land groan as my hands bleed.

lMy state — who can endure?lAs morning breaks, I know againlI have more stones to cast.

lYou cannot see themlwhere my hands closeland all my days bleed.

lWho will close my morning?lO, who will emptylmy pockets of my stones?

lParable of Stones, published in his book In Ordinary Time in 2004, won the Premio Feronia Citta de Fiano in 2009, which is Italy's most prestigious literary prize.