BEST PRACTICES INDIPLAHAN NATIONAL

HIGH SCHOOL

“Utilizing best practices in my classroom positively impacts

students by providing motivation to learn and promoting success

in a global world.”

NC Teacher, 2006

Diplahan National High School continues to motivate, engage and prompt students to learn and achieve. Thus, the school community gives its splendid support to the Best Practices resulting to a positive impact, improves school’s performance indicators.The Best Practices are the following.

SCHOOL-BASED WASTE

MANAGEMENT

IMPLEMENTATION1

Reducing waste at school instills a culture

of responsible waste management in

students while helping to strengthen

environmental benefits. The school identified practices

under School-Based Waste Management

(SBWM)

Implementation. This makes the school a

better place of learning. It helps

increase the enrolment rate.

I Am Not a Plastic User “I Am Not a Plastic User” is a

school-wide slogan as part of the School-Based Waste Management Implementation which intensifies the NO PLASTIC POLICY inside the school campus. The school is realizing the advocacy of not using plastic bags, plastic bottles and cellophanes inside the campus and its neighboring establishments.

PROGRAMS OF SCHOOL-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION

Cleanest Classroom This program supports the School-Based Waste Management Implementation. The school has formulated committee to evaluate classrooms every week. The committee chooses winners from JHS and SHS based from the criteria. The winner is awarded as the Cleanest Classroom of the Week.

PROGRAMS OF SCHOOL-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION

Clean-Up Drive(Proper Segregation of School

Waste)

PROGRAMS OF SCHOOL-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION

School-Wide Clean-up Drive is implemented once a month . This is to make sure that the school is clean and very good place for learning. The waste is properly segregated to its trash bins, the biodegradable and non-biodegradable.

INTENSIFIED HOME VISITATION

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To help decrease the SARDOs have established successful

teacher home visit program. As the result, parents, teachers, and

students are very positive in their response. This end makes

home visitation intensified. Parent-teacher communication has been a strong point of the

school. Teachers learn more about their students, get the

parents more involved in their child’s education, and bridge

cultural gaps that might occur between student and teacher.

SUMMARY ON HOME VISITATION

S.Y. 2015-2016Grade Level Total Number

of Students Visited

Number of Times Visited

Remarks

7 7 2 times a month per student

Successful

8 2 2 times a month per student

Successful

9 2 2 times a month per student

Successful

10 8 2 times a month per student

Successful

DYNAMIC CAREER ADVOCACY PROGRAM3

Strengthening to give access to information and provide guidance about career and education, Diplahan NHS conducted an annual Career Advocacy Program which are participated by different government agencies.

It aims to expand the promotion of the

benefits of the proper career guidance of the

students in line with the Career Guidance Advocacy Plan 2017-

2022. This program provides capacity

building on life skills to guidance counselors

and career advocates. This is supported by

the Local Government of Diplahan in terms of

financial and facility.

STRATEGIC

INTERVENTION

MATERIAL (SIM)

IMPLEMENTATION 4

Strategic Intervention Materials are conceptualized and designed to aid the teacher provide the pupils the needed support to make progress in studies. These will increase and deepen the skills, knowledge and understanding of the child in various subject areas not only in science and math but also including various learning areas in the curriculum.

SIM can give the opportunity to explore various ideas and concepts that would enrich

their understanding of varied subject matters that sharpen

their competencies. Furthermore, the strategic

instructional materials  tend to reteach the lessons which are not so much clear to the

learners and to help them gain mastery of the skills.

INTENSIFIED OPEN

HIGH SCHOOL

IMPLEMENTATION5

The Open High School Program is the

alternative mode of delivering secondary

education an independent, self-pacing

and flexible study to or complete secondary

education. Its aim is to contribute to the full development of the

learner into a creative and productive member

of the family, school, community, country and

the world.

Diplahan NHS is one of the implementers of the OHSP. This is to save the dropout reduction measures and to help students at risk of dropping out. The OHSP learners are categorized as SARDOs economically disadvantaged; working students, overage, domestic responsibilities, teenage mothers, early marriage, physical disabilities or poor health, psychological difficulties, and conflict situations; broken family, separated from parents.

The school gives assistance to OHS

learners to become “more mature”,

“more responsible”, work “doubly hard”, very “appreciative” of the OHSP, more

“willingness to learn” and with high

aspiration to go to college and to pursue higher

education.

School Year

Male Female Total

2013-2014 1 3 42014-2015 0 3 32015-2016 0 1 1

Total 8

OHS LEARNERS GRADUATES/COMPLETERS

A significant increase from 15 in the SY 2015-2016 to

30 in the SY 2016-2017. This Alternative Delivery Mode is

one of the school’s answer to Dropout Reduction

Program (DORP). Through the school-initiated learning modules, and classes every

Monday and Tuesday, students are no longer at

risk of dropping out.

ENROLMENT OF THE OPEN HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM

Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10

7

8

9

10

3

5

2

5

2015-2016 2016-2017

IMPROVED VISUAL PRESENTATION EQUIPMENT 6

Teaching-learning materials nowadays are

the use of technology such laptops and LCD

projectors or DLPs. Diplahan NHS applies

the modern trend of teaching. The school

have installed LCD projectors to 22

classrooms and 2 other instructional rooms

since 2013.

Due to the sustainability of technology-learning improvement, additional 10 units of 55 inches LED TVs have installed to 10 JHS classrooms and by S.Y. 2017-2018, all the classrooms will be installed 55 inches LED TVs. DLPs will be used for seminars and conferences. The LED TVs are donated by the BLGU and the Diplahan NHS Teachers Association.

DIGITAL-BASED INSTRUCTION 7

Computers and the Internet are a great

resource for classroom teachers! Teachers can

find suggestions, lesson plans, practical

support, information, and materials through

the Internet. In fact, using a computer can make a teacher's life

easier and more efficient.

When teachers become aware of how to find information online, they can help their students begin to tap into this huge resource. This skill is useful to students not only for accomplishing their homework, but also as a survival skill in the modern workplace. Thus, teaching and learning becomes easy with the use of digital instruction. It will attract the students to go to school everyday because the 21st century students are all millennials.

THE LECTUREIS ONLINE! 8

This school year 2016-2017, Diplahan NHS have accessed online lecture.

This is the ARTS ONLINE Cultural

Center of Philippines (CCP)

Lecture Series, a bi-weekly video

stream of educational

materials for arts enthusiasts and

students, and for greater

understanding of Philippine arts and

culture.

This project is software based

video conferencing

where artists interact with students and teachers.

FREE SCHOOL BUSES

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The school buses cater the transportation

need of the students residing in the eight

(8) barangays in Diplahan and two (2)

barangays in the other municipalities.

The BLGU support staff take turns in

dispatching students for safety travel

homeward bound.

The school buses that the MLGU of Diplahan

provide for the students’

transportation free of charge improves

attendance , extremely minimizes tardiness

and reduces dropout rate from 2.35% SY

2013 – 2014 to 0.0039% SY 2015 –

2016.

HEALTH IS WEALTH!10

The school gives free medicines for students

suffering common illnesses and multivitamins for

students having wasted Body Mass Index (BMI).

Barangay Poblacion Diplahan donates medicines.The school also allocates amount from the MOOE for medicines to be given free to students suffering common illnesses.

Students’ height and weight is measured to identify Body

Mass Index.They are treated in the school

clinic and given free medicines.

These services improve retention rate, achievement

rate and decrease dropout rate.

PAG-AARAL MO SAGOT KO!11

Pag-aaral Mo, Sagot Ko is the project of the SSG through the BLGU Poblacion

Diplahan. It is sustained by 10% share of Sangguniang Kabataan Funds.

BLGU of Poblacion, Diplahan headed by Brgy. Capt. Ramil M. Villaruel includes

the Php. 30, 000.00 in the regular budget for the beneficiaries of Pag – aaral Mo,

Sagot Ko . Selection of beneficiaries must be based on parents’ monthly income of

Php. 3, 000.00 and below and must be residents of barangay Poblacion.

The program starts S.Y. 2008 as a project of the SSG and being sustained. This reduces dropout rate due to poverty and increases retention rate.

In S.Y. 2015-2016, Diplahan National High School

became the recipient of WeCare Program of

AnakMindanao Party list spearheaded by the

Municipal Mayor of Diplahan, all indigent

students of Diplahan District are entitled to enjoy the free

of tuition fees.

ISANG TAWAG KA LANG!12

Sending letters to parents is a traditional method of

requesting them to come to school to settle problems of their children. It takes time and sometimes encounter

problem if the carrier of the letter forgets to deliver.

For immediate communication between

the school and the parents, mobile phones are the

solution.

Communicating the parents and guardians using the two

cell phones has been used by the Guidance Counselor

for two years now. Reaching the parents through gadgets help

greatly the immediate communication to solve

problem relevance to students’ poor class

attendance. Through this, students’ attendance in their classes improves. Dropout rate reduces.

VALUE FORMATIO

N AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES13

The Catholic church gives Holy Mass

service in Diplahan NHS Gym every first

Wednesday of the Month.

Other religions conduct Bible study

every other day of the week at 12:30

PM to 1:10 PM.

POSITIVE IMPACTS

There is an increase of

enrolment rate.

There is an increase of

promotion rate.

The dropout rate decreased.

The repetition rate decreased.