How Do You

Involve Others
in

Alternative
Learning
System (ALS) =

NF
E

InfE
d

- the lifelong
Informal Education
learning
process
(InfEd)
whereby we
acquire KSA &
insights from life
experiences.
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Programs

Interest-Based
Programs/Course
Livelihood Programs
Social Development
Programs
Cultural Programs
Economic Programs
Cultural Programs

Modalities

Inviting Resource Person/s

Institutional Training for
employment
Call center agent training
for ALS SL A&E passers
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Guild System
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Guild
System

- An informal system of
teaching-learning that
aims to train and certify
an individual to acquire
expertise on a particular
product making or
enterprise.
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Guil
d
An association of professionals or
trade people usually with an aim of
providing education to learners or
apprentices, representing the
interests of their trade and
encouraging high standards in the
craft as well as carrying out charitable
works.

Guil
d
A group of community experts
on
different fields regarded as
emerging source of livelihood in
a
community that conducts
informal
way of teaching various
enterprise to

Purpose of
Guild

To improve ones social status and

preservation of cultural products.
To maintain a monopoly of a
particular craft especially against
outsiders.
To regulate the local market. This
took the form of control of the price
and quality of goods. Membership
conferred substantial advantages.
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How Does Guild

System Work

Identify community experts and their fields

Conduct an interest-based assessment of
learners for groupings
Advocate the different fields of work for
learners pool of choices
Start with a master, to teach a pool of
trainers/learners or a group of masters to
teach a group of trainees
Arrange schedules between masters and
their learners with facilitation of ALS
implementers.
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Assessme
nt
INFED
PASSPORT

- A document in a
passport booklet
form that reflects
the competencies
the owner/bearer
has acquired after
participating in an
InfEd course.
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INFED PASSPORT

Contents/Parts

Photo
Basic Information about the owner
Name of CLC
Course/Activity
Duration/Date Covered
Name and signature of resource person/s
Venue/CLC name and address
Sponsor
Competencies acquired from the course
Name and signature of Facilitator
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INFED PASSPORT

How To Use

Prepare a listing of competencies for each

course.
At the end of the project cycle, the
facilitator shall hold an individual
interview/conference with the InfEd
participant.
Using the listing, the facilitator will ask
participants to assess the extent of
mastery of each competency listed.
The facilitator may provide suggestions to
improve the competency not mastered or
any area that the participant does not do

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INFED PASSPORT

How To Use

Ask for other competencies that are not in

the list and add these competencies.
Make positive comments about learning
these additional competencies.
Review and sort out the competencies
that the participant can do well/mastered.
Copy all these competencies that the
participant can demonstrate and opposite
describe the level of skills demonstrated
(mastered, more practice, needs
improvement. etc.)
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Learner

Street Children
Child Laborers
Illiterates
Drop-outs
School leavers
Parents/Mothers
Workers

Learner

Professionals
Indigenous Peoples
Senior Citizens
Urban Poor
Fisher Folks
Small and marginalized
farmers

Learning
Facilitator

Master Craftsmen
Experts in the
Community
Community Workers
Para-Teachers

Learning
Materials

ARH-based materials for

parents
Various groups interestbased
materials
On-going research for
Guild System materials

THROUGH INFED, LEARNERS WILL BE ABLE TO:

Engage in interest-based learning activities

or projects to meet their specific needs for
self-development;
Acquire essential life-skills knowledge and
attitudes to enable them to improve their
general well-being and quality of life as
individuala and as members of the
community; and
Develop multiple intelligences needed to
cope with desired emerging needs,
problems and issues and other futureoriented skills/interests
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Role
Playing
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ADVOCACY
AND SOCIAL
MOBILIZATION
(ADSOCMOB)

WHAT
IS

ADVOCACY

an act of persuading people using verbal

or non-verbal, oral or visual
communication to bring about a
voluntary change in judgment.
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

a process of raising community

awareness of the existing problems &
needs which leads to take collective
action to improve the situation using
local or external resources.

Who are Involved?

STAKEHOLDERS

When to conduct ADSOCMOB?

ANYTIME / AS NEED ARISES

Where to conduct ADSOCMOB?

ANYWHERE

Why conduct ADSOCMOB?

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
SHARE RESPONSIBILITIES
INSTITUTIONALIZATION
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROGRAM

HOW

Project Launching
Community
Meeting/Orientation Activities
Lobbying for Political Support
Project Orientation Meeting
with Learners
Focused Group Discussions

HOW
Informal Word of Mouth
Channels
Project Sites Visits
Special Community Events
Existing Mass Media Channels
Information Education &
Communication

BEST STRATEGY
L

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OVE
E ARN
I NK

A Guide
to the
ALS Logo

MEANING/COMPOSITION
THE ALS BRAND IS COMPOSED OF A LOGO AND A LOGOTYPE.

The logo is expressed in the

acronym of
alternative learning system, i.e.,
ALS, with
three dots above A and L.
The logotype spells out the
educational
product, or the ALS name.
The three dots represent the ALS

MEANING/COMPOSITION
THE ALS BRAND IS COMPOSED OF A LOGO AND A LOGOTYPE.

In the composite, the ALS brand

includes
the tagline LIFELONG LEARNING,
its end
goal. The ALS brand exudes a
character
of firmness, dynamism, and
confidence.
The colors red, green, and blue

USAGE:
SPECIFICATIONS FOR REPRODUCTION

The ALS logo has only one

execution
verticalthe logo on top of the
name,
center-to-center.
The ALS logo is provided to the
user in jpg
or png format, rendered it is
composite
form. The logo and logotype are

SPECIFICATIONS FOR REPRODUCTION

The ALS logo may be reduced or

enlarged, provided its execution is
done proportionately to avoid
distortion. In reducing or enlarging
the image, the keyboard
command is: HOLD DOWN SHIFT
KEY, before pulling the handle,
either up (to enlarge) or down (to
reduce), using the mouse.

The ALS Name

The ALS name shall be Alternative

Learning System, and is rendered
as an organic part of the logo, i.e.
the logotype. The ALS logotype is
not to be taken apart from the
logo. The ALS name, as the
logotype, assumes the blue hue.
It is projected that in time, the ALS
name as the logotype may be
dropped from the logo itself when
a strong brand recall becomes

COLOR APPLICATION

There are three (3) colors used in

the ALS logored, green, and
blue. For the reference of offset
printers and merchandise makers,
the files of the logo rendition
(color or grayscale) are flattened,
and hence do not allow for any
manipulation, except for
enlargements or reductions.

GRAYSCALE
APPLICATION

The ALS logo, shown here in

composite rendering, may be
used in grayscale printing.

THE TAGLINE

The tagline is LIFELONG LEARNING,

encoded in capital letters, and may
be used as an addition to the logo.
The tagline is rendered in SOLID
BLACK.
The tagline must be applied
vertically center-center only.
The tagline must be not separate
from the logo and the logotype.

VERTICAL CENTER - CENTER

APPLICATION