Month: August 2020

AlerTomas is a university-wide community development advocacy towards the environment and disaster risk reduction management.
As Thomasians, it is aligned to the essence of Care for Creation under Pope Francis’ Laudato Si and the new liturgical year’s Season of Creation.
May we invite our fellow researchers, research assistants, and RCSSED Staff to join in the launch and the series of webinars and community engagements in the upcoming weeks.
August 31 – Community Service Day / Launch of AlerTomas 2020
September 5 – Household Sustainability Webinar (Urban Backyard Farming and Botika Sa Paso)
September 12 – Zero Waste Household
September 19 –  UST Partner Community Participatory Discussion for Sustainability
September 26 – UST Stakeholders’ Round Table Discussion on Institutionalizing Care for Creation and Sustainability

For August 31 Here’s the link for the pre-registration (also needed for certificates)
https://ustscdo.github.io/?fbclid=IwAR28NpRdp2sPH-WyIH89poNPcZ7V2mG8dBvOoFgjY3zALJKpA9i8HzLCr80

The GCRF Family Literacy Team of the University of Santo Tomas, in partnership with the Internationalization Unit of the UST Graduate School, the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED), the Asia-Pacific Dominican Promoters of Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation, and the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation,is going to conduct a series of e-fora (September 3, 2020, September 17, 2020, & December 10, 2020) and a 2-month mentorship Programme on Adult Education focusing on family literacy and intergenerational learning (October & November 2020, every Thursday). 

These events aim to raise debates on the changing landscapes of adult literacy, the drivers of change and its challenges. It also highlights how adult literacy programs have become instrumental in supporting families and building communities.These activitiesare funded by the Global Challenges Research Funds (GCRF) which was awarded to the Family Literacy Team of RCSSED (Asst. Prof. Gina Lontoc and Prof. Camilla Vizconde) for the research project, Family literacy and sustainable development: How can we build on indigenous intergenerational learning? Below are the links for the registration via Google Form and e-Forum via Zoom:Google Form:  http://tiny.cc/familyliteracy
Zoom:  Zoom (e-Forum 1 on September 3, 2020):   http://tiny.cc/eforum1

For inquiries, please send an email to familyliteracy.ust@gmail.com. 

TECOVID-19 Colloquy Series: Understanding Teacher Education Noticing Behavior During COVID-19 Pandemic- Mindfulness, Decision-Making, and Adaptation from August to October 2020 via the UST Cloud Campus. 

The series will provide understanding on how the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping and reshaping the ontological, epistemological and axiological directions and attributes of today’s higher education delivery in most parts of the globe. It will describe the contexts and dynamics of teacher education institutions’ internal and external environments that are critical in their overall operations during the pandemic; explicate how challenges, imperatives and implications are calibrated, understood and interpreted by teacher education institutions; and elucidate key strategic responses, policies and guidelines enacted by teacher education institutions at the institutional, program and individual levels.

Additionally, the series will help leaders and program implementers of teacher education Institutions in institution-wide level initiative such as policy design, and support to organization and internal quality assurance systems; in program level which comprises actions to measure and enhance the design, content and delivery of the program within a department or a school; and in individual level which includes initiatives that help teachers achieve their mission, encouraging them to innovate and to support improvements to student learning and adopt a learner-oriented focus. 

The University of Santo Tomas and Fondazionne Gravissimum Educationis in cooperation with the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) and the Teacher Education Council (TEC) of the Department of Education will conduct the “TECOVID-19 Colloquy Series on Understanding 21st Century Democracy: A Call for Teacher Agency” from August 2020 to January 2021 via the UST Cloud Campus.

The series is divided into three strands, namely:

Strand 1: Understanding Democracy as a Human Enterprise

Strand 2: Embracing Democracy as Educational Commitment

Strand 3: Doing Service Learning as a way to democratize Philippine Society

It will describe the nature, role, and processes of democracy that shape human affairs; discuss how education serves as a vehicle in advancing democracy and its underlying processes; and apply principles of service learning as education’s proactive contribution to strengthen democracy. The audience for the series are Master Teachers in Social Studies, Regional Supervisors, and Democracy Local Antenna Units in 13 Countries.

Click link to view the webinar

TECOVID-19 Colloquy Series on Understanding 21st Century Democracy: A Call for Teacher Agency