AdZU JHS this week, October 2-7, 2017

 1. IGNATIAN
PARADIGM

(31) A critically important note of the
Ignatian Paradigm is the introduction of reflection as an essential dynamic.
For centuries, education was assumed to consist primarily of accumulated
knowledge gained from lectures and demonstrations. Teaching followed a
primitive model of communications in which information is transmitted and
knowledge is transferred from teacher to learner. Students experience a lesson
clearly presented and thoroughly explained and the teacher calls for subsequent
action on the part of students whereby they demonstrate, frequently reciting
from memory, that what was communicated has, indeed, been successfully
absorbed. While research over the past two decades has proven time and again
study after study that effective learning occurs through the interaction of the
learner with experience, still much of teaching continues to be limited to a
two-step instructional model of EXPERIENCE-ACTION,
in which the teacher plays a far more active role than the student. It is a
model often followed where development of memorization skills on the part of
students is a primary pedagogical aim. As a teaching model of Jesuit education,
however, it is seriously deficient for two reasons:

1. In Jesuit schools the learning experience
is expected to move beyond knowledge to the development of the more complex
learning skills of understanding, application, analysis, synthesis and
evaluation.

2. If learning were to stop there, it would
not be Ignatian. For it would lack the component of REFLECTION wherein students are impelled to consider the human
meaning and significance of what they study and to integrate that meaning as
responsible learners who grow as persons of competence, conscience and
compassion.

No.
31, pp 13-14, IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY, A Practical Approach

2. Activities and Events

 

2 Oct, Mon Guardian Angels	7:00 AM	Morning Assembly Sponsor:  Grade 10 – St. Bellarmine
		Launching of Statistics-Math Month
		Haircut inspection for gentlemen
3 Oct, Tues   St. Francis Borgia	7:00 AM   1:30 PM	Grade 7 – DepEd National Achievement Test (NAT) NO CLASSES in the AFTERNOON for G7 students
		Mid-year Evaluation of New & Probationary Teachers
		YSEP Duty – 10 – Arrowsmith
4 Oct, Wed   St. Francis of Assissi	7: 00 AM	MASS
	10:00 AM   5:00 PM	Principal’s Council Meeting
		Ateneo Sponsored Novena Mass for Nuestra Señora La Virgen del Pilar (for those interested)
		YSEP Duty – 10-Campion
5 Oct Thurs	7:30 AM 9:00 AM	Community Mass – World Teachers Day Teachers’ Day Celebration Program NO CLASSES in the AFTERNOON
		Submission of 2nd Qtr Test Drafts to Dept Chairs
6 Oct, Fri	7:00 AM   7:30 AM 8:00 AM                 1:00 PM   3:00 PM   3:45PM	MASS
		Math Day     Assembly     Math Quiz Bowl     Math Bingo     Videoke Challenge     Sodoku     Rubik’s Cube Challenge     MATHching Ball     Minute to Win It     Math Park     Math Movies     Kite Flying Contest     aMATHzing Race     Closing Program
		Counselor’s Grade level Meeting with Moderators (G7 – G10)
7 Oct, Sat Our Lady of Holy Rosary	8:00 AM	YSEP for Grade 10
		Social Action Community Extensions
		Inter-school Math Quiz Bowl Elimination
		Guidance Office Mid-year Evaluation
		2nd Qtr Test Drafts to AP for Academics

 

2.
Reminders

 

a. To
all Class Moderators, all
unclaimed report cards are to be turned over to the          

     Registrar’s Office by October 2 (Monday).

 

3. STUDENT UPDATES

a. Congratulations
to the winners of Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship

    held
last September 22-24 at Tugbok, Davao City.

 

1.   
Ben
Nadmier Bensali                         G10 – St. Campion      Semi-finalist

2.   
Gerard
Matthew Burnos        G10 – St. De Brito      Semi-finalist

3.   
Renzo
Sontillano                                 
G9 – St. Faber                      Semi-finalist

4.   
Natasha
Delos Santos                         
G9 – St. Faber                      Semi-finalist

 

b. Congratulations to the winners of 2017 Division Schools Press
Conference held

    last
September 28 at Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School.

 

Rank	Category	Name	School Paper
1st	Copyreading and Headline Writing	Therese Lorelei Lapitan	Blue Eagle Publications
1st	Editorial Writing	Viana Bianca Lasprilla	La Liga Atenista
2nd	Editorial Cartooning	Maria Bettina David	La Liga Atenista
3rd	Photojournalism	Achmad Xenon Kong	Blue Eagle Publications
5th	Newswriting	Haydee Rizma Abdulkahal	La Liga Atenista
6th	Sportswriting	Renon Rae Jumangit	La Liga Atenista
1st	Collaborative Publishing	Florence Midel Chris William Buhay Margaret Tatel Zhareena Tawasil Zhanvermeer Tawasil Khaled Yasin Lakibul Earl Nico Miranda	La Liga Atenista

 

4. Points to Ponder

One Makes a Difference

 

This
whole universe, with its trillions of galaxies, began as a tiny speck of
concentrated energy, smaller than a grain of salt. When you were first
conceived, you were just a single cell, a mere pinpoint of life, barely visible
to the naked eye but packed full of the potential for everything you would ever
become-every action, choice, and relationship. You are just a drop in the
ocean, but without you the ocean will not become the ocean. You are just a
grain of sand, but you are a grain of sand that tips the scales. You are just a
drop of dew that soaks into the earth and is gone by noon, but that drop of dew
brings life to the seed that grows in the earth. You are only one, but the
Power of One is greater that you dare to dream. One is not Nothing. One makes a
difference. Your choices can tip the scales of humanity a little bit more
toward goodness and truth, if that is your desire.

 

–     
Margaret Silf, Simple Faith, Sacred Space 2017

 

 

 

 FR.
ARNEL T. ONG, SJ