Telcom grooms public schools as ‘centers of excellence’

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 15 (PNA) -- Two public elementary schools here have been selected by a giant telecom industry to become “centers of excellence” in innovative teaching.

The program known as “Global Filipino Schools” (GFS) is a project of Globe Telecom, Inc., which prepares the selected public schools into becoming the 21st century educational institutions.

Yolanda Crisanto, SVP, Globe Corporate Communications, said that the GFS program brings an innovative education to public schools by helping the skills of both the teachers and students to be globally competitive.

Crisanto identified the two public schools here as recipient of the GFS programs as the Indahag Elementary School and the Fr. William F. Masterson, SJ Elementary School in Upper Carmen, this city.

“The GFS program wishes to transform the selected public schools into centers of excellence in innovative teaching methods and information and communications technology,” Crisanto said.

Part of being a GFS is for the school to be fully utilized as a teacher training hub for the corresponding division in the Department of Education (DepEd) it is under.

Both the selected school and DepEd are tasked to conduct teacher training to neighboring public schools within their division, Crisanto said.

She said that each school has a collaborative learning area for group activities and is also provided with a newly constructed laboratory equipped with computers, Internet connectivity and other multimedia tools.

She said that the selected public schools would be provided with computer units in cooperation with the Ayala Foundation (AFI), the implementer of the GFS program.

Ruel Maranan, the AFI president, said that “empowering communities has long been at the heart of Ayala Foundation and education is one of the ways for us to do this.”

Maranan also said that the AFI Lead Com project was likewise introduced to Cagayan De Oro two years ago.

Global Filipino Schools is also being supported by Mitsubishi Corporation and Far Eastern University.

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