WELCOME TO YOUR SECOND HOME

YOU ARE THE KEY TO OUR SUCCESS

Asian Computer College Teacher Orientation June 2011

Let us all pray:

Lord Jesus, you are with us now. Help us recognise your presence in each other. May friendship and cooperation flourish here. Fill us with a deep sense of peace. Inspire us to listen with attention and patience to each other, to share with courage and generosity, and to welcome the ideas of all. May this orientation strengthen our friendship, build our community and increase our confidence in ourselves and our school. Lord Jesus, bless Asian Computer College so that it may be a lively center for sound learning, new discovery, and the pursuit of wisdom. Always guide it so that it will never waver in its mission of enriching and improving the lives of all the members of the academic community. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Why do you teach? What is your vision for teaching? What would you do to be able to improve?

ICEBREAKER : Brainstorm Race

1. Group yourselves into four. 2. You have one minute to brainstorm ideas about Understanding by Design. 3. RULE: Nobody can speak. Each of you must write the ideas on the paper that I have provided.

Processing
Did working in teams helped or hindered? Did having a deadline help or hinder? Were you surprised by how many ideas you came up with, or didnt?

Mission Statement
Committed to excellence, Asian Computer College, together with the home and community, cultivates each student's full potential through challenging, appropriate and innovative educational programs in a safe and nurturing environment. It seeks to provide students the opportunity to become responsible citizens and independent lifelong learners by focusing instructions on reading, writing, critical thinking and information technology.

Vision
Asian Computer College is committed to bring out the best in its students by understanding their capabilities while balancing their desire for fun and their need to grow and evolve. In line with this commitment, it is Asian Computer Colleges vision to be a premier computer school which will develop and train a new breed of individuals who are globally competent and emotionally prepared to take on the challenges of the new millennium.

CORE VALUES
In pursuit of its vision-mission, Asian Computer College promotes the following fundamental values that define its character as a learning institution:

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Establishing high standards that allow all the members of the academic community to achieve and improve. COMMITMENT Staying true to the philosophy, mission and goals of the school. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT Developing students who are engaged to the fullest in the collective school culture

RESPECT Establishing an environment that values respect and inclusion for all. DISCIPLINE Creating a conducive environment for teaching and learning where in the norms of conduct expected from the members of the academic community are met. MODEL Modeling our shared values. FUN Creating an energized, dynamic, and positive student-centered environment.

Learning from the Past Cooperative Group Activity

Directions: 1. Group yourselves into 6. 2. Make a one-minutes skit about at least 4 common teacher habits or traits which are barriers to learning.

THINK ABOUT IT!

Take a few minutes to reflect on the following:
Your strengths which will make you an effective teacher Your weaknesses which will hinder you from being an effective teacher your plan of action to be able to lessen the barriers to learning in your class

BARRIERS TO LEARNING
Perceptions of lack of relevance Hostility towards previous learning experiences The belief that one is too old to learn Lack of confidence Lack of awareness of learning needs Language and motivational problems

A good teacher/trainer should:

Stimulate, challenge, interest, involve and encourage the learner Prepare well Understand & meet the learners needs Use a style of delivery to suit the learner Evaluate both the teaching and the learning Be a lifelong learner themselves

Ten Tips to Becoming a Better Teacher

1. Consider your goals and objectives, and communicate them to your learner 2. Discover enthusiasm for your subjects and your learners 3. Take your teaching and their learning seriously plan, teach, reflect

4. Rediscover your sense of humor

5. Make your learner as active as possible

Ten Tips to Becoming a Better Teacher

6. Be respectful of your learners 7. Promote self-directed learning 8. Provide feedback - frequent, timely, constructive 9. Admit your limitations - relearn to say I dont know 10. Make your teaching and their learning fun

TOP TEN TIPS

Plan Prepare Check everything Timing Be confident
Contingency plan Extra copies Rehearse Assess Evaluate

The Effective Teacher

1. Is A Good Classroom Manager 2. Designs Lessons To Reach Mastery 3. Has Positive Expectations That Students Will Be Successful

4. Inspires the students to be and to do better

The very first day of school is the most important

day of the school year What EFFECTIVE TEACHERS do on the very first day will determine the success of the class.
Harry Wong, (2009), The First Days of School.

Setting Up for Success

Expectations worded in a positive sense have greater impact than does a list of things not to do. Know and model the schools code of conduct. Form rules with the students governing classroom behavior.
Tip: Never underestimate the importance of your appearance. Always dress professionally, if you want to be considered a professional.

How to inspire students?

Build Relationships

Listen
Respect Model

The #1 key to inspiring the uninspired is the teachers ability to build relationships.

Write a Personal Mission Statement and a Classroom Mission Statement which reflect your aspirations.

Sample Personal Mission Statement

In my everyday life I will strive to make a difference with both my family and my students.

Sample Classroom Mission Statement In our class: We will respect each other. We will learn everyday And we will have fun doing it.

Change the World

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. ~Author Unknown http://www.justgive.org/html/news/changeworld.html

THE CONTRACT
WHATS IN IT? WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW THIS? HOW WILL IT HELP ME?

PROCEDURES
OFFICE FACULTY ROOM COMPUTER LABORATORY

Teacher Responsibilities & Duties:

1. To plan the course outline for the years teaching of assigned subjects based on curriculum requirements set by the Department of Education. 2. To facilitate learning process of pupils/students by stimulating, guiding and directing them towards effective learning. 3. To help students appreciate the use of technology by integrating ICT in the lesson 4. To help students/pupils develop a total personality founded on the core values of Asian Computer College.

Teacher Responsibilities & Duties

5. To evaluate and keep records of students/pupils performances. 6. To follow-up students/pupils performance through regular consultation with parents, the child/student and other teachers. 7. To conduct home visitations when necessary in following up the childs/students progress. 8. To develop children/students imbued with sense of nationalism, pride of country and good citizenship. 9. To serve as an exemplary role model to the students.

Adviser Responsibilities & Duties

1. Keep records of pupils/students in all subjects. 2. Coordinate with subject teachers on the progress of their student/pupils. 3. Prepare repot cards of students/pupils. 4. Plan and prepare with students/pupils activities within the classroom. 5. Implement policies/programs of department. 6. Acts as counselors to students. 7. Communicate with the parents regularly for the welfare of the students.

Adviser Responsibilities & Duties

1. Keep records of pupils/students in all subjects. 2. Coordinate with subject teachers on the progress of their student/pupils. 3. Prepare repot cards of students/pupils. 4. Plan and prepare with students/pupils activities within the classroom. 5. Implement policies/programs of department. 6. Acts as counselors to students. 7. Communicate with the parents regularly for the welfare of the students.

TEACHER PREPARATION
LESSON/UNIT PLAN FORMAT TEST QUESTIONS WITH TABLE OF SPPECIFICATIONS CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PLAN IMPORTANT DATES EVALUATION / ASSESMENT

 Teachers must remain true to the mission and vision of the school. They must be diligent in facilitating learning. Teaching while sitting and asking the students to copy from the board are discouraged. Teachers are not allowed to use their mobile phone while teaching. Teachers are expected to refrain from engaging in idle and noisy chats during breaks, especially when they are on the corridors or in the faculty room. Teachers are not allowed to give up their class period so that the students can practice or finish their projects.

Teachers are also expected to do the following related duties and responsibilities:
Involvement/ participation in important school activities such as Foundation day, Intramurals, Commencement Exercises, Recognition day, Christmas programs and other similar school activities. Participation in seminars, workshops, and enhancement or innovative gatherings in education for the purpose of growing professionally in the field of teaching. Participation in extension work or community outreach activities. Student consultation for academic and/ or behavioral counseling etc.

PERTINENT PROVISIONS:
Teachers should observe punctuality at the beginning of each period or class hour so as not to keep the students/ pupils waiting. Generally, no class/es should be dismissed before the bell rings signifying the end of the period or class hour.
Tardiness for three (3) times (or an accumulated 120 minutes) whichever comes first within a calendar month shall constitute habitual tardiness which is sufficient ground for disciplinary action to be reflected in the efficiency rating of the employee. After 10 minutes and the teacher is still not around, the Officer-inCharge will be notified by the students. After 15 minutes, the teacher is considered absent and the reliever takes over the class. For purposes of computation, every minute that a teacher is tardy will merit him/her a one peso (P1.00) deduction from his/her monthly salary. Tardiness during typhoon, floods, inclement weather conditions and other natural calamities may not be counted as tardiness. Early dismissal from classes or work shall be treated in the same manner as tardiness.

PERTINENT PROVISIONS:
In case a teacher, for one reason or another, may not be able to attend his class, he must notify the principal on the matter at least one day in advance in order that a substitute may be assigned on time. He/ she must also send to the office seatwork/s for his/ her class/es. A faculty member is encouraged not to receive or accept personal favors from students/pupils or from parents to avoid misunderstanding or misconception from parents or students. Corporal punishment and insulting remarks to students/pupils to impose discipline is strictly prohibited. No teacher shall engage in any business or any financial dealing with his students/pupils.

BENEFITS:
A. Semestral Vacation and Christmas Vacation with pay Employees will receive their salary in full on November 5 despite the semestral break. Employees are also entitled to receive their basic salary during the Christmas break. B. Scholarship - a teacher will enjoy a 100% discount on the tuition of his/her child.
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THIRTEENTH MONTH PAY:

The said teacher will also receive a thirteenth-month pay in accordance with the Presidential Decree No. 851. The first seven months of service rendered (7/10) will be given on or before December 24 while the remaining three months(3/10) will be given on the beginning of the next school year.

PERSONNEL CONTRIBUTIONS
A. Every employee regardless of status or tenure shall contribute one hundred pesos (P100) monthly deductible on payday (P50 every 5th and 20th of the month). In the event that an active full-time employee passes away , teachers and administrator shall contribute one hundred pesos (P100) deductible from his/her monthly salary. In the event that a retired full-time employee passes away, the provision on contribution for full-time faculty applies. The Provident Fund will be used to extend financial aid to teachers who have been hospitalized or who have members of their immediate family hospitalized. The Provident Fund will also be used to give all faculty members P500.00 on their birthdays.

B.

WORKING HOURS:
During the term of this Agreement, the teacher should work in cooperation with the administration from Monday through Friday, and/or during weekend whenever it is necessary. The teacher agrees to render approximately 5.33 hours of teaching per day.

TAX AND OTHER DEDUCTIONS:

Income tax will be withheld from the salary in accordance with the Philippine tax law. The employee's monthly SSS contribution in amount corresponding to his/her basic salary or in accordance with the schedule indicated in Sec. 18 of the Social Security Law. The employee's monthly Pag-ibig contribution in amount corresponding to his/her basic salary.

CODE OF DISCIPLINE:
Every employee: 1. Is duty bound to perform his/her assigned tasks or the functions of his/her office with honesty, sincerity integrity, and loyalty; 2. Shall render work appertaining to his/her position and assignment devotedly and faithfully in fairness to his/her employer and render a fair days work for a fair days salary; 3. Shall avoid undue intimacy or close relation with his/her superior, subordinates, co-workers or students. 4. Shall refrain from transacting private business or affairs during office hours; likewise, should avoid personal visit except in emergency case.

Every employee:

CODE OF DISCIPLINE:

5. Shall not possess and/or carry deadly weapon within the school premises; and, 6. Who is involved in any criminal or civil case which is not in connection with his/her work or office in the school, may continue to serve in the school when such criminal or civil crime does not affect said employment as determined by the President, unless his continuance of service in the school is adversely affected by any court decision and/or order. 7. Is expected at all times to practice the elementary rules of discipline, obedience, respect and human relations with all the members of the academic community;

CODE OF DISCIPLINE:
Every employee: 8. Shall act in such a manner befitting the functions of his office, observing at all times elementary principles of social decorum and being responsive to the needs of the people with whom he deals; 9. Shall do his job with soberness. Under no circumstances shall an employee under the influence of liquor or prohibited drugs be allowed to be on his job; 10. Is expected to speak well of the school; 11. Shall obtain written consent from the school authority before entering into a contact or giving any statement which involves in any manner the name and dignity of the school;

CODE OF DISCIPLINE:
Every employee: 12. Shall wear appropriate school attire or uniform; Men are required to wear dark pants and short sleeves barong while women are required to wear the color, cut, and design agreed upon by the body. All teachers are required to wear properly shined formal leather shoes. Rubber shoes, sneakers and sandals may only be worn during Friday. Slippers are strictly prohibited. Teachers must wear their school ID at all times. 13. Shall observe the established norms of conduct at all times; shall be courteous, honest, trustworthy, dependable, punctual and considerate to others;

CODE OF DISCIPLINE:
Every employee: 14.Shall adhere to the code of professional ethics. Professional jealousy is a violation of ethics. Gossiping, intriguing, mudslinging, rumor mongering, fraternizing with students and malicious ventilation of grievance against the School and co-employees are forms of professional jealousy; 15. Shall observe good housekeeping, good grooming, sound office practice and good public relations.

GROUNDS FOR DISMISSAL

(In accordance with Art. 282 of the Labor Code)
1. Serious misconduct or willful disobedience by the employee of the lawful orders of his/her superiors. 2. Gross and habitual neglect by the employee of his duties and/or frequent absence from work. 3. Fraud or willful breach by the employee of the trust reposed in him/her by his/her employer. 4. Accumulation of minor offenses which render him/her as a nuisance to the faculty. 5. Criminal behavior or misconduct.

VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION:

In the event that the teacher resigns from employment, he/she can do so giving 20 working days notice to the employer. He/She is required to pay a termination fee of P 20,000.00 to the school. This provision will serve as a safeguard from employees who have no intention of finishing the ten-month contract.

OFFICE PROCEDURES
ENROLLEMENT SHEETS ATTENDANCE SHEET TEACHER SIGN-IN LOG REFERRAL FORMS HALL PASSES REQUEST FORMS RELEASE FORMS

TEACHING QUOTES
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." - Kathy Davis
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Reflections/Comments

What I am taking away today, What I still hope to get,.

Thank you for being a teacher in Asian Computer College! Lets all work together to make this school year fruitful.