Republic of the Philippines

San Antonio Elementary School

Schools Division of Paranaque City

Introduction

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an accepted factor in all our lives and has a pivotal role to play in education. The unprecedented adversary brought by the pandemic had posed a great challenge in the delivery of learning across all students, parents, teachers and administrators. The appearance of ICT in education, as proposed by the Department of Education had allotted a substantial investment in terms of ICT facilities and trainings. ICT in education concentrates on the potential impact of ICT on teaching and learning and on the measures that need to be adopted to ensure that the potential of ICT to enrich students’ learning experience is realized.

ICT enables the use of innovative educational resources and the renewal of learning methods, establishing a more active collaboration of students and the simultaneous acquisition of technological knowledge. It is much easier for them to create team projects, cooperate and learn from each other. Aside from this, it has advantages such as:

• Enhanced the modes of communication.
• Cost-efficient.
• Paperless: Eliminate the usage of paper. …
• Better teaching and learning methods.
• Enhanced data and information security.
• Minimize cost and save time.
• Easy student management.
• Automatic solutions to manual paper-based process and procedures.

Benefits for teachers

Enable teachers to:

• create and share teaching materials that can be accessed on line, printed out
• put their resources on thus facilitating collaboration within their subject area
• obtain access to a wide variety of learning materials that they can customize for the exact needs of their students
• assess, monitor and track individual and group progress
• receive submissions of work from students in one area that is easy to manage
• increase their ICT competence and confidence.

Benefits for students

Enable students to

• obtain access to learning materials created by their teachers and others
• store their work and notes on line for use in assignments, homework and revision
• work at their own pace and with a wider choice of learning styles, through digitized modules
• submit homework and assignments for marking and assessment
• communicate and participate in live or on line discussions with other students and with teachers.
• Benefits of learning platforms for parents

Enable parents to

• play a greater part in their child’s learning, where they have access to the learning platform from home
• support children in learning that takes place outside school
• obtain access to their child’s personal home page to keep track of their work and the curriculum
• view reports, attendance data, and scores in assessment activities
• communicate effectively with teachers, school administrators and others supporting their child’s learning
• engage with wider school issues through on-line communication tools
• become active partners with the school.

VISION:

San Antonio Elementary School envisions to be a child-friendly learning institution providing quality, relevant and wholistic education, whose graduates are technologically and globally competitive.

MISSION:

San Antonio Elementary School in its desire to be a technology driven elementary school will:

1. Continuously produce and update its technology infrastructure within its financial capability.
2. Enhance and updates technological competence of the whole faculty and non- teaching personnel.
3. Secure the interest, cooperation, participation and engagement of the external stakeholders specially the parents
4. Ensure the technology integration in the school operations and services.

GOAL:

1. Procure and updates technological tools and resources through various internal and external sources.
2. Provide/enhance the ICT skills and competence of all personnel both teaching and non-teaching personnel.
3. Develop and nurture the interest, cooperation and participation of parents, in the integration of ICT in the implementation of the curriculum.
4. Develop an information system in the management of school operations and services.

GOAL 1

STRATEGIC INITIATIVE