IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL GARDENING
by: ZORAIDA F. ESPINO,PH.D
EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR I EPP/TLE
The problem of malnutrition among school children may be addressed by the Gulayan sa Paaralan project which serves as the main source of commodities to sustain supplementary feeding.
The project raises public awareness that the schools are also the best venue to disseminate information to children on the importance of producing and eating vegetables.It also helps in providing planting materials as well as encouraging the organic gardening technologies.
Organic gardening is a technique in planting vegetables without the use of any chemicals or synthetics. The objective is to produce crops which have the highest nutritional values with least impact on nature.
Many studies reveal that pupils who are poorly nourished have a hard time focusing on their lessons in their classes and they resort to absenteeism or dropping out of the rolls.
The students plant and maintain school gardens themselves to sustain supplementary feeding especially those students who are undernourished.The schools provided the area for the garden and DA's part is to provide the vegetable seeds, plastic mulch and training for student, teachers and even parents on how to maintain the school garden and make it productive.
Therefore , we can say that "Gardening is fun for our pupils"...There is mounting evidence that active learning in less structured, participatory spaces like gardens is more likely to transform children’s food attitudes and habits, and that school gardening, especially when combined with a healthy lunch program or nutritional education, encourages more healthful food choices. Students are more likely to try eating vegetables they have grown themselves and to ask for them at home (Morris & Zidenberg-Cherr 2002). When students take their preferences back to their families, they can help to improve family consumption choices.
Readers happy gardening to all of us...
by: ZORAIDA F. ESPINO,PH.D
EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR I EPP/TLE
The problem of malnutrition among school children may be addressed by the Gulayan sa Paaralan project which serves as the main source of commodities to sustain supplementary feeding.
The project raises public awareness that the schools are also the best venue to disseminate information to children on the importance of producing and eating vegetables.It also helps in providing planting materials as well as encouraging the organic gardening technologies.
Organic gardening is a technique in planting vegetables without the use of any chemicals or synthetics. The objective is to produce crops which have the highest nutritional values with least impact on nature.
Many studies reveal that pupils who are poorly nourished have a hard time focusing on their lessons in their classes and they resort to absenteeism or dropping out of the rolls.
The students plant and maintain school gardens themselves to sustain supplementary feeding especially those students who are undernourished.The schools provided the area for the garden and DA's part is to provide the vegetable seeds, plastic mulch and training for student, teachers and even parents on how to maintain the school garden and make it productive.
Therefore , we can say that "Gardening is fun for our pupils"...There is mounting evidence that active learning in less structured, participatory spaces like gardens is more likely to transform children’s food attitudes and habits, and that school gardening, especially when combined with a healthy lunch program or nutritional education, encourages more healthful food choices. Students are more likely to try eating vegetables they have grown themselves and to ask for them at home (Morris & Zidenberg-Cherr 2002). When students take their preferences back to their families, they can help to improve family consumption choices.
Readers happy gardening to all of us...
ICT as Instructional Devices in Teaching....
by:ZORAIDA F. ESPINO,PH.D
EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR-I EPP/TLE
ICT is an acronym for information communications technology. ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. The data is transferred or communicated to people over long distances electronic means(adopted in google ASK page).
As we move into the21st century, these factors and many others are bringing strong forces to bearon the adoption of ICTs in education and contemporary trends suggest we will soon see large scale changes in the way education is planned and delivered as a consequence of the opportunities and concordances of ICT. This article
seeks to explore the likely changes we will see in education as ICT acts as a powerful agent to change many of
the educational practices to which we have become accustomed. ICT will explore the impact
both current and emerging information and communication technologies will be likely to have in coming years
on what is learned, when and where learning will take place and how the learning will occur.
What is the main role of ICT to teachers and learners ?
ICT is clearly integral to the existing curriculum in primary and secondary education, it is more important to understand teachers' ICT skills and knowledge needs, to discover their priorities for future development and to establish what will encourage teachers to adopt ICT where appropriate in their professional lives as classroom practitioners, as planners and managers and as learners.
So teachers "Go for ICT as your instructional devices...Be innovative...Explore ...."
by:ZORAIDA F. ESPINO,PH.D
EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR-I EPP/TLE
ICT is an acronym for information communications technology. ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. The data is transferred or communicated to people over long distances electronic means(adopted in google ASK page).
As we move into the21st century, these factors and many others are bringing strong forces to bearon the adoption of ICTs in education and contemporary trends suggest we will soon see large scale changes in the way education is planned and delivered as a consequence of the opportunities and concordances of ICT. This article
seeks to explore the likely changes we will see in education as ICT acts as a powerful agent to change many of
the educational practices to which we have become accustomed. ICT will explore the impact
both current and emerging information and communication technologies will be likely to have in coming years
on what is learned, when and where learning will take place and how the learning will occur.
What is the main role of ICT to teachers and learners ?
ICT is clearly integral to the existing curriculum in primary and secondary education, it is more important to understand teachers' ICT skills and knowledge needs, to discover their priorities for future development and to establish what will encourage teachers to adopt ICT where appropriate in their professional lives as classroom practitioners, as planners and managers and as learners.
So teachers "Go for ICT as your instructional devices...Be innovative...Explore ...."