Enhancing Competency of Teachers

About the Book

“Enhancing Competency of Teachers” is a fundamental teaching-and-learning guide. Its main goal is to learn and develop an enhanced value system (EVS) and practice it in everyday life. Filipinos are known worldwide for being friendly and hospitable. However, without limitations, these traits become the “roots of corruption” in all sectors of Philippine life. This book outlines the sequence of logical modules in teaching-and-learning enhancement programs (TLEP) in the school settings. It is designed for learners in all educational levels, to enhance competencies and effectiveness in human resource development and training. It contains concepts, principles, and strategies for effective teaching and learning. The “Ethico-Moral Theory in Learning” provides five sets of significant rules in learning ethicomoral values to become genuine professionals. Verily, the skill, method, and social competencies of a person are not enough. They must be supported by a quality EVS that will guide the person to think, feel, and act-with strict reverence to the will of God. Many books contained different insights, theories, philosophies, principles, and concepts in teaching and learning that sometimes confused readers in understanding how to learn or teach productively. In contrast, this text is presented in a very simple and logical manner. It advocates for the need of educational change, using EVS as the “key.” It presents simple approach in designing, implementing, and managing TLEP in school settings. It covers elementary modules-i.e., Learning Process; Teaching Methods/Techniques/Strategies; Preparing Daily Lesson; Sequence of Instruction; Selection of Teaching Aids; Speech Techniques; Questioning Techniques; Learning Distractions; Evaluation Techniques, Review/Summary/Reinforcement. Verily, a high school graduate can become a very productive professional through reading this book seriously. Today, the main cause of poverty is “corruption.” Poverty creates hunger. Hunger results to crimes. Criminal acts are indicators of degraded ethicomoral values. To have “More Fun in the Philippines,” EVS is a must amongst Filipino people!

About the Author

Marcelino D. Catahan is a self-made man. He was fourth in the eleven children of a farmer’s family in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He was a self-supporting learner all the way—from high school to postgraduate studies. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in industrial education in Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP), Manila, in 1965. He finished MEd and PhD (educational administration) in Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1992, at age fifty-four. Marcelino taught in Manila public secondary schools (1966–1974). He worked in Papua New Guinea as mechanical instructor/training coordinator in “Plant & Transport Authority” (1975–1980). His migration was influenced by two “special” sons—an autistic and a schizophrenic. Verily, he needed to save big money for their medical expenses. In 1980, he brought his family to California, USA. He supervised the boys’ treatment at Stanford Medical Hospital at Palo Alto, California. But sadly, science effects up to a certain level only—the rest is left to God. With minimal progress, Marcelino’s family went back to Manila in 1981. Marcelino was a supervisor/instructor with “Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere” (CARE) in Somalia, 1982–1984. This began his more than twenty years stint in Africa. He was an ILO consultant in ILO-Malawi (1986–1988); curricula/in-service training adviser/assistant training director in “Vocational Training Center Namibia” (1989–1992); education consultant of UNICEF–Somalia (1993–1994), and education consultant of UNICEF–Mozambique (1994). He resigned in Mozambique to attend to his schizophrenic son, who attempted suicide. For three years, Marcelino attended to his son’s medication. In 1997, he went back to teaching. He was a social science professor in AMA Computer University, Sta. Mesa, Manila, and DLSU–College of St. Benilde at Taft Avenue, Manila, until his retirement in 2004. The reactivation of primary education in Somalia—after disruption for more than ten years due to civil war—was an excellent feat of Marcelino. In recognition, he was awarded distinction as one of the “Twenty Most Outstanding Alumni” during the TIP’s fiftieth anniversary celebration last February 11, 2012.