CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS - EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT

THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
Level 1 – Macro Environment
A. Socio-Demographic & Political Factors
 Population Population (2013) -4,154 A lower population growth may A median age of 22.32 however
Statistics Projected Population – 4,500 result to lower demand on the 20.25% are within 5 to 14
Median Age of Population – 22.32 government resources for human years old.
20.25% are within 5 to development. Education, this
14 situation translates to lesser demand
for school buildings, other education
facilities and resources.
 School Age Basic Age Bracket Percentage of Population There are 52.01% children who A Population of school – age
5–9 41.54 belong to the school-age bracket of 5- requires more resources to build
Education
10 -14 10.47
15 -19 7.58 14 years old. education infrastructure.
Dependency rate is high.
Total 59.59 Parents have to support their
children
 Income Level of The average annual family income in -Poor economic status of the
Household Moriones was estimated at 250 000, barangay
while the average annual expenditure -Lack of financial support of the
was estimated at 350 000 parents
Occupation of family 2 out of 10 are eligible for work Employment situation in
members 5% employment rate Moriones is only the table could
5% are laborers and unskilled lead to children of poor families
workers having poor access to basic
70% are farmers education
20% are at least middle level position
in government and private sector
 Political system From the municipal to barangay a Coordinate with the LGU for the The school become venues in
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
council member is designated to take
charge of education issues and
legislative agenda
 Government thrusts on -Republic act 9155 ( Governance on
education basic education)
-RA 10157 ( Institutionalization of
kindergarten education in basic
education system )
-RA 10533 ( k to 12 basic education
program law )
-Probation of pre public education
under the 1987 constitution
-Child protection policy of the DepEd
-RA 7610 ( An act against child abuse )
-RA 10627 ( Anti-Bullying act of 2013
Basic education sector reform agenda
)
-Pantawid pamilyang Pilipino program
(4P’s)
-No collection
-Feeding Proram
B. Economic Factors
 Business and Industries -Sari-Sari store, Furniture and
agricultural products are several
businesses
-Agricultural products such as rice and
high breed corn, cassava and camote
are the local industries
THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
promotion of education needs and advancing political interest
service
RA 9155 Empowerment of School
Head to decide on matters and act
regarding school improvement
process
Implementation of the k to 12
education program
Decreasing the cause of and
subsidizing the education would
improve basic education services in
its quality
These business and industries are -Some of the parents asked the
partners in providing basic quality school children to help in the
education farm
-Absenteeism among pupils
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
 Employment and Employment rate has 5%
Employment Statistics -5% are laborers and unskilled
workers
-70% farmers
-20% least middle level positions in
government and private organization
 Prices of Goods and -Price of goods/commodities and
Services services is high
 Poverty levels Almost 75% of poverty incidence
among families in Moriones
 Natural Resources -The major crops in barangay are rice,
high breed corn and vegetable.
-It is also rich in natural resources
forest products such as coal, lumber,
sand and rocks
 Topography -Moriones is situated at the center of
three municipalities Capas on the
south, Villa Aglipay on the north,
Capas on the East and Lubigan on the
west.
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Centered Learning, School-Based
Management, Education Statistics
and 21st Century Education
Keeping a low prices of goods/
commodities and services would be a
good economic indicator and would
be within the reach of people
Moriones is a mountainous barangay
it is free from flood
THREATS
(Implications on K to 12,
Learner-Centered Learning,
School-Based Management,
Education Statistics, and 21st
Century Education
Although poverty incidence
among households, the parents
support their children sending in
school and in providing quality
education
The families asked their school
children to help in the farm.
They could not focus in school.
Leads to very poor academic
performance and increase drop-
out.
-Class disruptions due to typhoon
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
Approximately 60% of the barangay is
plain while the rest is mountainous.
The barangay has 2 distinct season;
dry from November to April and rainy
from May to October.
B. Technological Factors
 Access to -2 % of households have internet
Communication connections.
Technologies -60% have cellular phone
-20 out of 4 154 household have
personal computers
 Multi-Media Technology 677 out of 766( 88.38% ) households
have television sets.
70.10 % households have
CD/DVD/VCD players
LEVEL 2 – Industry, Area and Sector Analysis
C. Education Industry
 Basic Education - Public School
2 Complete Elementary
1 Primary
1 Secondary School
THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
-School children of poor families
could not have access to
communication technologies that
would put them to disadvantages
in developing 21st century skills
which is 1 of the goals of the k to
12 basic education program
Excessive usage and misuse of the
multimedia resulting to poor study
habits and discipline among the
pupils.
Mapping of these schools shows
that there are still school-less
barangays in the province.
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 THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
 Higher Education HEIs are potential partners in SHS
implementation, which can mitigate
the population of students in public
schools through the voucher system
of DepED

Level 3 – Market Assessment

 Barangay Economy and At present there are no businesses and
Business Enterprise factories in Moriones.

Level 4 – Micro-Market Assessment

 Student Market (Data -There are 80 OSY’s in Moriones. 68 of The 68 OSY will take the opportunity There are still 12 OSY in the
Mining on Existing them were enrolled in Project HOPE. to be trained and eventually succeded barangay that not giving
Students Enrolled) in their lives. importance in education.
 Demand for and Supply -In Moriones Elementary School for There is inequality in the
of School Facilities, School Year 2014 – 2015, there was a distribution of chairs and
Teacher and Learning total of 415. teachers which may affect the
Materials delivery of instruction.
-Teacher to pupil ratio is 1:38

-Chairs
Total Excess: 296
Total Needs: 58
-Teachers
Total teachers: 11
Total Needs: 1 Kindergarten
teacher and 1 subject teacher/canteen
manager.
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 THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education

CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS – INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

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 WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
Level 1 – Performance Outputs/Outcomes
 NER (SY 2013-14) of the school in the past 3 In the past 3 years, the participation
years is 80%. rate, completion rate, survival rate
 Cohort-Survival Rate of the school reached and repetition rate are above the
81.89%. planning standard. All indicate
 The school leaver rate or drop-out rate in SY improving learners’ access in the
2013-14 decreased with .01%. school.
 NAT Results The over-all NAT Result for Grade 3
G3 G6 shows a steady increase in the last The data suggest further the
2011-12 81.22 76.33 three years. In SY 2013-2014, the effectiveness of interventions
2012-13 82.97 82.91 mastery levels achieved by Grade 3 taken for the improvement of
2013-14 85.19 85.28 is Moving towards Mastery. The the achievements of students.
over-all NAT Result for Grade 6 is
also increasing in trend, with a
8.95% increase from SY 2011-12 to
SY 2013-14.

 Needs in Learners Materials One challenge in the

o Science IV- 40 LM Moriones Elementary School has E- implementation of the K to 12
o Science V-33 LM room. BEP, is the completion of the
All the rest are complete in learning materials. LMs and TGs requirements of
 Physical Facilities schools.
The Schools is in need of
Library -0 ancillary classrooms, tools and
Science laboratory-0 equipment. It includes library,
IA room-0 computer laboratory, science
Clinic-0 The school has 15 rooms-all of laboratory, guidance office and
 The school has 15 instructional rooms which are designed for instructional clinic room.
and 0 non-instructional rooms, which purposes, though only 14 are
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
are all powered by grid. With 401
pupils, class size is around 29 pupils.
Level 2 – Organized Competencies and Capabilities
 Programs and projects implemented to
expand access to basic education
o Project ABOT-ALAM
o Project HOPE
In terms of the performance level 100% of drop-out rate of schools.
the teachers performed very satisfactory
likewise the school head rated the same.
WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
actively used. All in all, the school
has at least one general academic
classroom, home economics and
industrial/workshop. Of the
instructional rooms, all of them are
standard rooms, meaning they meet
the DepEd’s guidelines for safety
and usability.
Clear efforts of the school to expand
the access of the Moriones ES to
Basic Education, which paid off with
the increasing participation rate and
cohort-survival rate and decreasing

Level 3 – Utilization of Resources

 The Restructured Basic
Education is presently used by the
school from Grade V to VI. In Grades I,
II, III and IV the K to 12 curriculum has
been started since school year 2012-
2013 to 2015-2016.
 The curriculum is designed to be
interpreted by teachers and
implemented with variations. Schools
Government resources were
properly utilized with the successful
implementation and efficient fund
utilization for
 The school gets its funds
to smoothly operate from
the canteen proceeds,
income generating
projects, fund raising
Inefficiency in submission of
required documents needed for
the downloading of funds
allotted for special programs
Inefficient records keeping in
terms of the employees’ leave
credit cards
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
are encouraged to innovate and enrich
the curriculum.
 Successful implementation with 100%
accomplishment of the objectives of the
following DepED Special Programs
-Special Education (SPED),
-K – 12 BEP, and
-School Feeding Program
WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
activities and other
matters related to the
school expenditures.
 Pupils, Teachers and the
People in the community
who have showed exemplary
effort are given recognition
in giving honor to the school
through certificates as a
form of their reward.
 K – 12 BEP,
Improper practices in fund
 School Feeding Program,
utilization in the school level.
 GAD Programs, and
 programs and projects
related to senior citizens and
persons with disability
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 WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education

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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
Level 4 – Management Processes
The school is headed by a Head Teacher III
who functions as an instructional and
administrative manager. Consistent with the
law, national educational policies, plans and
standards, the school head have the authority,
accountability and responsibility to the school.
The school head works as a visionary principal,
motivator, advocate, planner, curriculum
developer and fiscal resource manager. She is a
builder of support systems and establishes
community networks to encourage active
participation of teacher and parents’
organization, governmental, non-governmental
units and other linkages.
The main source of data in the division is the
Planning and Research Unit, which in turn base
its reports on the inputs of school heads in
national online databanks like, E-BEIS and LIS.
Other units of the division, like the personnel
and budget do their data gathering directly
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Centered Learning, School-Based
Management, Education Statistics
and 21st Century Education
From the School Based Program, the
School Governing Council (SGC)
started to figure out the significance
of having a plan in improving the
school. They initiated in forming
ways and means to prosper and
attain new developments for the
betterment of the whole
organization.
WEAKNESSES
(Implications on K to 12,
Learner-Centered Learning,
School-Based Management,
Education Statistics, and 21st
Century Education
Inconsistency of data from
planning, budget and personnel
units.
Incorrect entries in the LIS and
E-BEIS.
Need for proper coordination
between units regarding
personnel promotion,
movements and retirement for
updating of data.
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 WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
from the reports submitted by the schools or
from the plantilla of the division. For this
reason, data from these offices vary and most of
the time cause confusion and inefficiency in
service delivery.
In the past years, ranking and processing of
appointments were done in the school level and Further training is needed on
hiring of new teachers was done in the district interfacing of the different units
level. Due to this practice, common problems of the three divisions.
encountered includes, late submission of
appointments and supporting documents, and Inefficiency in the ranking
incorrect entries on the preparation of procedures and processing of
appointments and supporting documents, appointments.
which both leads to delay in filling new and
vacant positions. Further, some school heads
insist on choosing applicant that will be
assigned to their schools, which is also a
common reason for complaints.

Classroom Monitoring is done by the school

head . While the Public School District Need for further trainings, and
Supervisors (PSDS) and Education Program strengthen the capability of the
Supervisors (EP), provide monitoring, teachers in ICT.
evaluation and technical assistance to teachers
towards the full implementation of the
articulated curriculum.
In terms of financial control,
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
 AIP is submmited by school head
 Cash Advances are verified by
accounting before fund release
 Liquidation report are checked by
bookkeepers, SDS and COA
WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
Strong internal control system on
resources (peso, people and physical
facilities) are in place.

In terms of control of physical facilities,

supplies and equipment,
 Proper recording of the incoming and
distributed materials are done in the
supply unit.
 Regular inventory is also done to
follow-up the proper utilization of these
resources, especially books, chairs and
others.
 If equipment are declared damaged or
for condemnation, a request for
inspection is prepared by the supply
officer, approved by the SDS, certified
by the inspectorate team and witnessed
by COA.
Internal control over teaching and non-teaching
staff
 Responsibility of the immediate
superior this includes, accomplishment
of critical incident reports, mentoring
and coaching and evaluation of
performance and behavior.
 If the magnitude of the case cannot be
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 WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
settled in the local level, it is referred to
the higher authorities.
Level 5 – Four Management Functions
The goal of producing Filipino children who are Giving the best efforts in marketing
proficient in basic literacy, numeracy, and the K to 12 Program to pupils,
critical thinking skills to make them globally parents and other members of the
competitive will be pursued by the Moriones community.
Elementary School through the different DepEd
programs.

Resulted in greater appreciation of the

curriculum’s true value for the development of
21st century Filipinos. Flyers were distributed
in malls and commercial centers. Regular
meetings with stakeholders were done.
On human resource development
efforts, there is a shifting of focus
towards continuous improvement
and character reformation for a
more effective and efficient delivery
of services for the development of
21st century skills.

Level 6 – Teams and Individuals

The school counts on the leadership of SGCs and Alumni Organizations
auxiliary organization for the effective were not fully tapped in terms of
implementation of different programs and support to the improvement of
project of the Department of Education. The school. It is an indication of poor
following more organized in support of related SBM practice.
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LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS
duties where they are fitted: Homeroom PTA,
General PTA, teachers and employees’
organization, Supreme Pupils Government and
subject related clubs.
These organizations consume to
address plans, issues, concerns relevant to the
improvement of the school be it on physical and
academic aspect.
Level 7 – Physical Facilities and Set-up Working Conditions & Environmental Surroundings
E –classroom and other school facilities were
utilized properly.
Level 8 – Organizational Affiliations, Alliances & Linkages
The education of the young generation is not
the sole responsibility of the school, but the
whole community as well.
List of Stakeholders on 19-20
WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
Slow internet or no connection
in most of the offices in division
office and in schools in the
province, which affects
efficiency of submission of
reports and data management.
E-BEIS and LIS, encoding and
updating of data becomes a drag
to most teachers and school
heads, which affects the
integrity of the Division
Information System.
Increasing numbers of participating
NGO’s, Government Agencies, Local
Government Units, Religious
organization and other members of
the community in improving the
conditions of the schools indicate a
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 WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
(Implications on K to 12,
(Implications on K to 12, Learner-
Learner-Centered Learning,
LEVELS DATA/SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS Centered Learning, School-Based
School-Based Management,
Management, Education Statistics
Education Statistics, and 21st
and 21st Century Education
Century Education
strong awareness of the
responsibility of the whole
community to education.
Level 9 – Top Management, Board Members and Leaders
The School Head has an extensive experience The experience and exposure of the
and received numerous outstanding SDS can propel the transformation
accomplishments as a transformative leader of the Division.
and education manager.
Level 10 – Strategic Fit or VSOP (Vision, Strategy, Organization and People)
Moriones Elementary School has been The SIP is translated to year-
implementing programs and projects with only long plans and programs were
year-long plans as guides. With the present assigned to competent working
administration, a School Improvement Plan was groups for its implementation and
crafted with clear strategic direction and evaluation. aligned to the vision-
realistic strategic options. Each programs and mission and objectives of the
strategies are carefully extracted from an division. The year-long plans and
environmental assessment and carefully programs were assigned to
aligned to the vision-mission and objectives of competent working groups for its
the division. implementation and evaluation.

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