Management/Legal Aspects/Trends

Question #1 : Demonstrate your essential understanding of the following topics: Substantiate

your discussion by citing authorities/advocates of each.

1. Educational Management
2. Functions of Management
3. Managerial Roles
4. Managerial Skills
5. Managerial Ethics
6. Principles of Management
7. Managerial Communication
8. Human Resource/Personnel Management
9. Managing Conflict and Change
10. Motivation
11. Leadership and Leadership Styles
12. Decision Making and Decision Making Process
13. Supervision and Administration
14. Problem Solving Process
15. Decision Making Process
16. Laws Related to Education
a. Republic Act 9155
b. Education Act of 1982
c. Republic Act 6713
d. Philippine Constitution
e. Recent DepED orders
f. Teachers Professional Code of Ethics

Question #2: You are asked to write a book of the Philippine Educational System . What salient features
of our Educational system will you include in your presentation. Discuss these features very exhaustively
and comprehensively.

Question #3 Give a critical analysis of the Philippine Educational System. Consider the following in your
analysis/make suggestions/recommendations

1. Organizational Structure/Bureaucracy
2. Aims
3. Philosophy
4. Vision
5. Mission
6. Governance
- Legal Basis (RA 9155)/legal basis for CHED/TESDA/TEC-VOC, etc. etc. etc.
- Leadership
-Budget
-Economics of Education
7. Trends, Issues, Challenges, Problems
 8. Existing Programs and Projects which you think have solved the problems.
9. Suggest Programs and Projects which you think can solve the problems

Question #4. Have a situational analysis of the Philippine Educational System. Present your
analysis in 4 columns showing the STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES and THREATS.
Based on your analysis make a plan of action showing your interventions to improve the Phil.
Educational System.

Question #5: Identify some trends, problems and issues in the Philippine Educational system in each
of the four streams ( Equitable Access, Quality and Relevance, School
Management of Education Services and Performance Indicators) . Cite solutions,
i.e., PROGRAMS AND/OR PROJECTS , both local and international initiated in
order to improve the status of the system.

Question #6 : Situation: You are an educational manager. You are asked to write an article
about the Philippine Educational System. Your expected readers are all the schools’ community
stakeholders. Prepare a very impressive paper discussing the what’s , the why’s and the how’s of
the Philippine Educational System. You may use the following outline:

I. Introduction

II. Legal Bases

III. Salient Features of the Philippine Educational System

A. Vision

B. Mission

C. State in terms

- Provision of Equitable Access

-Quality and Relevance

- Management of Educational Services

- Performance Indicators

IV. Make Intelligent reactions to each of the items under Part III. You substantiate your
agreement or disagreement with:

- philosophical views

- management principles
 - legal aspects, facts, concepts, theories, principles

- programs/ projects which you think have aggravated or somehow have solved
the problems.

V. Recommendations/Suggestions

Question # 8 Think of a very pressing problem confronting your school/ your organization . Provide
a doable solution to it. Present your solution following the steps: Verify , define the
detail of the problem, establish evaluation criteria, Identify alternative policies, Assess
alternative policies, Display and distinguish among alternatives, Implement, monitor and
evaluate.

Question # 9: Read the following Situationer:

Name of the school: XYZ Elementary School
Core Values: Integrity, excellence and leadership
Number of teachers: 100
Educ’l Attainment Profile of Teachers: 50% of the teachers are Teacher 1, 25 % are Teacher 2,
and 20 % are Teacher 3 and 5% are Master Teachers.

Teachers’ Competence: Not one has attended any training on content and teaching strategies

Pupil Academic Achievement for the last 3 years:

NAT MPS in Math.....36.00, English 34.56, Science 39.00, Filipino 40.00 and HEKASI 45.00
Percentage of non Readers in Grade 1= 32%, Grade ll = 20% and Grade lll = 40%

Performance Indicators:
Drop out rate = 8%, Failure rate= 0%, Participation Rate 51%, Graduation Rate = 60%

You will be assigned to XYZ Elementary School as principal in the opening of classes. Make
a one year Improvement plan for the school.
Question #10: Give your Comments/remarks of the K to 12 Curriculum based on the Criteria of a good
Curriculum.

10. What is Quality Education? What are the indicators of Quality Education in the following levels:
1. Pre School
2. Elementary Education
3..Secondary Education
4. Tertiary Education
 5. Graduate Studies
Propose an educational program for any one of the above-mentioned levels to justify your
contention of quality education.

11. Comment on the K-12 Curriculum base on the criteria of a good curriculum.

Question #1

1. Study the following basic facts about ABC Elementary School.

2. Have a situational analysis of the school. Present your analysis in 4 columns showing the
STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES and THREATS

3. Based on your analysis make a plan of action showing your interventions to improve ABC
Elementary School.

ABC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

I. Core Values, Vision and Mission

Core Values: Integrity, Excellence, leadership

Vision: A high performing school with dedicated teachers and administrator, adequate
resources and facilities, strong supportive parents all towards the development
of the child’s full potential.

Mission: Promote a competitive environment for the total development of the child
through the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders.

II. Profile of the community and the School

A. Community

ABC Elementary School is located in Barangay XYZ which is 3 kilometers away from
the town with 10 tricycles and 10 motorbikes providing the ride needs of the populace on its
bumpy road. Means of communication is through few private cellular phones.

It has a barangay plaza with a stage, multipurpose pavement , a barangay hall with a
day care center and playground facilities for children. And it has street lights.

B. School
 ABC Elementary School is a complete monograde school with a total enrolment of 450
pupils from Grade 1 to Grade 6 with 10 teachers, all of whom are TI. The school is headed by
a newly appointed Head Teacher .

On pupil achievement

For the last three years, the school has these NAT results

SY English Science Math Araling Filipino

Panlipuna
n

2007- 34.00 42.08 23.00 51.00 46.00

2008

2008- 32.43 41.00 34.00 45.00 45.00

2009

2009- 31.09 36.00 21.00 42.00 41.00

2010

Pupils are polite and obedient but many of them have irregular class attendance.

On Instructional supervision

In terms of instructional, the Head teacher who has been appointed for 3 months
needs training and mentoring or coaching. He has never observed any class.

On Manpower and staff

Ages of teachers range from 25 – 59 years. Though teachers attended many trainings
for capacity building with focus on contents and strategies, all of them have not attended any
training on diversity of learners and performance-based assessment.

Teachers are cooperative, resourceful and creative but 30% of them are always absent
and don’t write lesson plans.

On curriculum

30% of the teachers can’t finish all the skills in the PELC. There are lesson guides for
Science and Math but there’s none for English, Filipino and Araling Panlipunan.

Textbook-pupil ratio in all subject areas is 1:5.

 There’s no TV and VCD for classroom instruction use.

Physical Facilities/Equipment

Most of the instructional classrooms are in good condition. Only 2 classrooms need
minor repair.

The school has no playground facilities and sports equipment for the socio-
psychomotor and physical development of the pupils.

On Community Extension

Only 50% of the parents are attending Brigada sa Eskwela and the same percentage
of parents attend PTCA meetings.

Social Opportunities

-Loving people; high number of professionals

-Some parents are illiterate.