Month: September 2020

The Teacher Education Council (TEC) of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the University of Santo Tomas, Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED) will be holding the 4th installment of their webinar series on “TECOVID-19 Colloquy Series: Understanding Teacher Education Noticing Behavior During COVID-19 Pandemic- Mindfulness, Decision-Making, and Adaptation”,  on October 03, 2020, from 9:00 – 11:30 am and from 1:30 – 4:00 pm, via the UST Cloud Campus.
The morning session will feature Dr. Jerome T. Buenviaje, Dean of the College of Education of the University of the Philippines – Diliman who will speak about “Redesigning Schools for Stronger Relationship”.  In the afternoon session, Dr. Carmela C. Oracion, the Executive Director of the Center for Educational Development and Assistant to the University President for Basic Education of the Ateneo de Manila University will talk about “Expanding Learning Time”.
Deans and heads of the various schools and colleges of Education across the country are invited to attend.  For more information, contact the Teacher Education Secretariat at teacheredsecretariat@gmail.com

The “Kwentong Katekista 2: Research-based Intervention Outcomes (RIO) for Catechetical Ministry” is rescheduled on October 5, 2020 (Monday) from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM via FB Live at the National Catechetical Study – NCS 2021 Page. Please continue our registration thru Google Forms: https://forms.gle/GmSGuh8su3rZ4XNP9.
Visit our NCS 2021 ENEWS VOL 2 | ISSUE 5 | SEPT. 27, 2020 – https://mailchi.mp/2858bcbd038f/ncs-2021-enews-vol-2-issue-5-sept-27-2020

We invite everyone for the final installment of this year’s AlerTomas Webinar Series this September 26 (Saturday) 4:00-5:30 p.m.  It is in partnership between the University of Santo Tomas – Simbahayan and the National Taipei University – International Program on Urban Governance, the event will be part of a webinar and part round-table discussion both of which will focus on the challenges or pathways of furthering care for the environment through community sustainability.  
Guest speaker, Asst. Prof. Chia-An Andy Ku, a Ph.D. in Geography graduate from the University of Cambridge, will discuss the link between climate change and resilient research with city/community-level disaster risk reduction planning and management, with a strong focus on flooding in Taiwan.  Round-table discussions open a forum for HEI level experiences and pathways towards care for creation.
Interested participants may register for the event either by scanning the QR Code provided or through this link: https://forms.gle/MQ7xNDepEN8yEwHy9

The Research Center for Social Sciences and Education is offering statistical services for students, faculty members, and researchers who are doing quantitative researches. Those who are interested to avail of the statistics consultation services, you may visit our website (rcssed.ust.edu.ph) or email us at stat.rcssed@gmail.com. Ms. Gab Cruz who is the statistical service personnel will attend to all your inquiries.

The researchers behind the CHED-funded research project “Connection on Learning and Employability Assessment Report (CLEAR)” would like you to join the webinar “Project CLEAR Website Launch: Introducing the CLEAR website, expanding tertiary-level education insights” where the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of the CLEAR WEBSITE will take place this September 25, 2020, Friday, from 9:00-11:00AM via Blackboard Collaborate. No need to worry since this webinar is FREE and OPEN TO ALL interested participants.

To register, all you have to do is click on this link tinyurl.com/CLEARWebsiteLaunch  and fill-in the required details. The registration will remain open starting today, September 10 to September 22, midnight. See you there!

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For questions, you may reach us at clearadm2018@gmail.com.

The second e-Forum of the Family Literacy Team under the GCRF Project, “Families and sustainable communities: The role of family literacy in meeting the SDGs”To participate in the webinar, kindly use the following link:

e-Forum 2 (September 17, 2020 / 3:00 PM): http://tiny.cc/e-forum2
Meeting ID: 829 8046 0864

Tayo ay magsama-sama bilang isang makakalikasang Tomasinong pamayanan sa darating na ikalawang Sabado ng Community Development Advocacy Webinar on Care for Creation handog ng UST Simbahayan AlerTomas 2020.

Ating tunghayan ang diskusyon tungkol sa Zero-Waste Community Webinar kasama ang ating UST resident Mother Nature – Prof. Arlen A. Ancheta, PhD sa Septyembre 12, 2020 mula 4:00 PM hanggang 5:30 PM.

Ating tandaan na ang pamayanan na maaruga sa kalikasan ay isang pamayanang matatag laban sa anumang sakuna!

Narito ang link ng registration at para na rin sa magiging certificate.

https://forms.gle/hg3YASFm5Me8MPV36

PubMat created by: UNESCO UST

Zoom hosted by:  Richard de Silva (UST AB Staff and Rotary Club of Cubao)

The Teacher Education Council (TEC) of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the University of Santo Tomas, Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED) will collaborate to bring the “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. 

September 10, 2020 marks another milestone for the Sustainability RIG of the UST Research Center on Social Science and Education as RIG Lead, Dr. Arlen Ancheta and Dr. Moises Norman Garcia join as invited speakers to the internationalized India-Philippines Connect Webinar at the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW www.iswmaw.com).  This year the theme of the Society’s conference turned webinar is Resource Circulation & Waste Management under Pandemic Covid-19.  Drs. Ancheta and Garcia are experts on the field of Zero-Waste, and each will be holding their own sessions during the webinar.

The program will start at 12:15 (Indian Standard Time, 2:45 Philippine Time).  Dr. Ancheta is set to deliver a speech during the technical session, while Dr. Garcia will be a panelist during the panel discussion.  
The registration link is: https://forms.gle/iiMBYMDwZ3vLmKUt7

Online platform to be used will be GoToMeeting, no need to download, just click the session on the day of the webinar.  Session link will be sent to registered participants.  Live streaming will also be available via, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012393582174.  There will be certificates issued by the international society to all full participants.

“Democracy in Time of Disasters” by Dr. Barbara Wejnert from the Department of Transnational University at Buffalo, New York (August 22, 2020) .

Click link to view the webinar

Democracy in Time of Disasters