Continuous Faculty Retooling for Teaching Flexible Learning with Tagoloan Community College 

July Fridays  means USTP-CiTL and Tagoloan Community College teaming up for capability training on Continuous Faculty Retooling for Teaching Flexible Learning. 

USTP, USEP collaborate for Conceive-design-implement-operate training  

Basic CDIO training with the University of Southeastern Philippines ( USeP) was a 9-day training held last July 5-8, and July 12-16, 2021 via Zoom.  Advancing CDIO Training on the other hand focused on evaluating the existing programs and identify areas where CDIO can be applied, evaluating the alignment of the teaching and learning activities to the outcomes of the programs, creating a plan on the application of CDIO teaching and learning activities in the class, and creating a sustainability plan in applying CDIO in the programs. 

UPLOADED: Training Using Gift and Aiken Format for Uploading Questions 

As the Learning Continuity Review Program (LCRP) nears its implementation, focal persons were given a training on Efficient Uploads to Question Bank Using Gift and Aiken Format last June 28, 2021. 

System-Wide Curriculum Review Revs Up

TP’s system-wide Curriculum Review revs up as the Curriculum Review Team meets for the Review of the Policies and Guidelines on Curriculum Development and Review. 

ON THE FIRESIDE: Fostering Creativity in the Classroom 

The Director of CiTL, Dr. Amparo Vedua-Dinagsao, once again went beyond the corners of USTP as she sat as one of the Panel Members of Fireside Chat hosted by Akadasia. Fireside Chat is a free virtual sharing on the topic 21st Century Education where most audience and participants are teachers from all over the world. 

Best Practices ON THE JOB, Shared

During their Midyear Evaluation and Planning, the Senior High School department headed by Principal, Engr Lloyd Jhon B Estampa and Academic Head Mr Arvin Narvaza invited the five ( 5) CiTL office staff to share how they managed their tasks, practiced collaboration and used various applications for work efficiency and effectiveness. 

Webinar Augmenting the Way We Communicate and Present Our Brand Training 

CiTL takes into heart the importance of every member in the USTP system including the Office Staff; the people behind every success of an event or process in a department or office.

Teaching Excellence Awards Nominations Opened

The trail for excellence in teaching is now open as the Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) nominations officially opened last June 15, 2021 . Spearheaded by the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, TEA aims to give significant merit to faculty in the USTP system who have shown highly distinctive pedagogical practices. 

Trailblazer Educators Train for ToS Construction and Test Questions Validation 

Three hundred eighteen trailblazer-educators from all over the USTP System train for ToS Construction and Test Questions Validation in a webinar conducted by CiTL last May 21, 2021, via Zoom and Facebook Live.

CDIO Champs Convene for Mentoring Session 2 

CDIO Prime movers from Cagayan de Oro, Oroquieta, and Panaon Campuses convene via Zoom for the second Faculty Mentoring and Coaching Session on May 14, 2021. Once again, the champions met with their mentors and colleagues as they shared further how they implemented innovative strategies and techniques in their classes.

USTP Panaon and USTP Oroquieta train for innovative frameworks

Faculty members of USTP-Panaon and USTP-Oroquieta train for innovative frameworks-Design Thinking and Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) last May 4-5, 2021, and May 4-6, 2021 respectively, at Panaon Campus. 

CiTL Preps for ISO

In full support to the university, CiTL staff, headed by their Director Dr Amphie Dinagsao, ready for the ISO surveillance visit on April 28-29, 2021.

As practiced, CiTL staff maintains soft copies of their files via Google Drive, hold weekly meetings and conduct quarterly consultations with the Director. Moreover, the center practices continuous improvement by empowering their staff and allowing them to suggest, and plan out processes that make the center's services better.

CiTL Facilitates Magsaysay College Curriculum Planning

Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning continues its services as it welcomed and assisted Magsaysay College (MC) during their curriculum development activity held at USTP last April 14,15, &16, 2021.

During the event, Engr Rojien Morcilla gave a talk and emphasized the process with OBE Framework on revising the curriculum, while Engr Bronson Mabulay, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, shared on the Entrepreneurship Program of USTP.

CET Trains for Design Thinking

The USTP-Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology ( CET) underwent the Design Thinking Training last April 13-14, 2021. The training, attended by 10 persons from CET, was aimed mainly to equip their personnel in innovative teaching and learning. As CET offers bootcamps, lecture series, pitching activities and other related activities, Design Thinking is one excellent framework that can assist them in furthering their mandate. 

Mentors and Mentee Converge for the First Ever Faculty Mentoring Session

“You cannot transit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Like a seed awaiting to be watered, the seed of innovation sprouts among the tenacious Design Thinking mentees from the College of Technology as they met with their mentor counterpart last April 12, 2021. The activity is designed to provide a venue for collegial mentoring--coaching sharing. Also, during this activity, both mentors and mentees determined how the Design Thinking can be applied in the teaching and learning activities in the courses and programs and also create the action plan.

Learning Continuity Review Program Kicks Off

Students have always been a salient factor in the improvement of programs as well as in an institution's continuous quality improvement. And in alignment to the strategic goal of USTP, which is to increase our ratings in board exams as well as its efforts for continuous quality improvement of the programs that ensure students are skill-ready for their future careers, CiTL facilitates the implementation of the Learning Continuity Review Program (LCRP). 

Surigao State College of Technology : Retooling Faculty for Flexible Learning

Salamat Karajaw, Surigao State College of Technology!

CITL team held a webinar series of Continuous Faculty Retooling on Teaching Flexible Learning via Zoom Application last March 24, 25, and 26, 2021 to the faculty of Surigao State College of Technology. The webinar hoped to address the challenges that the teachers of the College of Technology in SSCT experienced as they conduct Flexible Learning sessions in this new modality of learning. “Several faculty are minimally capacitated in terms of strategies necessary for Flexible Learning.”, Dr Marilou Carnicer, COT Dean said during her opening talk. She also added, “… if we choose to embrace stagnation over development no amount of money or school reform is going to improve.”

CEA, USTP-CDO Revisit the Way They Mark Their Students' Performances 

The College of Engineering and Architecture ( CEA) of USTP-CDO revisited the way they mark students' performances in a webinar by CiTL last March 17, 2021 via Zoom. CEA faculty members remained invigorated during the webinar as Engr Rojien Morcilla and Engr Lloyd Jhon Estampa discussed the Overview of the concepts of Grading Students’ Performance, University Grading Policy & Revised Policy of Flexible Learning Performance Innovative Tasks (PITs) includes alignment to Cos and POs etc. and Using the scoring rubrics for making PITs and Exams. 

Jasaan Faculty Automate Rubrics

Thirty-one faculty members of USTP Jasaan Campus train for Automating Rubrics for Assessment and had a session on Sharing the Flexible Learning Teaching Experience. The participants converge last March 23, 2021 as Dr. Amparo Vedua-Dinagsao, CiTL Director and Engr Aileen Sieras, CiTL Program Head for Innovative Teaching Series, talk about Automating Rubrics for Assessment while Mr. Greg Pegarro and Engr Brian Genon share their best teaching practices on Using Technology Tools on to Engage Students and Strategies for Making Instructors Presence Felt respectively. 

USTP-Claveria Gets Full Coverage

USTP Claveria campus got covered as CiTL brought Bringing Industry Experience into Flexible Learning by Creating a Scorm package with AMATROL content in USTeP , Automating Rubrics for Assessment and Sharing the Flexible Learning Teaching Experiences to the College of Engineering and Technology of USTP-Claveria last March 9, 2021. Thirty-two faculty members attended the said training which was aimed at helping and demonstrating to faculty members how to automate rubrics in MSExcel, Google Sheets and Google Forms. 

Conceive. Design. Implement. Operate: A Teaching Learning Program

CiTL reintroduces the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) framework to USTP-CDO Faculty members last March 18-19, 25-26, & 29, 2021. Twenty-five select faculty participated in the Advancing CDIO Training where they revisited the CDIO framework, academic programs and curricula and participated in various asynchronous workshop sessions. Aside from the workshops, the faculty members gave their reflections and insights on the important learning they have from the previous talks and discussions. 

CITL re-inaugurated, now official 

The sound of the goblets echoed throughout the room as the deans, directors, administrative and academic heads and faculty members congratulated the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CiTL) for what it has accomplished a year after the center was conceived. 

CiTL conducts series of Training at USTP-Claveria

Twenty-one faculty members from the College of Arts and Science and 36 teachers from the College of Agriculture re-learned how to automate rubrics for enhanced and more convenient assessments during Flexible Learning. 

Design Thinking integrated into College of Technology Curriculum 

John Dewey once said that if we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. With this being said, the faculty members of the College of Technology (CT) once again embraced Design Thinking during the Retooling Design Thinking and Strategic Approaches to Teaching Innovative Solution Courses trainings last February 10 & 11, 2021 with the goal of integrating the framework into the curriculum; the enhanced curriculum will enable the university to produce more innovative, empathetic, and creative graduates.

CiTL Welcomes New CiTL Coordinators

CiTL welcomes the new campus coordinators from Panaon, Oroquieta, and Jasaan. Ms Mary Jane Moralia ( Oroquieta), Ms April Dianne Caseros( Panaon), and Mr. Greg Pegarro (Jasaan) were recently designated as campus coordinators for CiTL in their respective campuses. 

CHED IDIG Project Goes  Full Throttle

The CHED-IDIG funded project spearheaded by goes full throttle as the team plotted the various programs and activities for the next 10 months last January 26-29, 2021 at Chali Beach Resort.