BOR chair keynotes teacher training; hands P2M for CTE

June 25, 2010

DR. NENALYN P. Defensor, chair of the MMSU Board of Regents, was keynote speaker in the Instructional Materials Development Seminar cum Workshop held April 20-22 at the CHED Center for Teaching Excellence (CTEx) based at the College of Teacher Education in Laoag City.

Before an audience of over 200 administrators, faculty members, and staff, Dr. Defensor spoke about her commitment to teacher education and training. She said the improvement of the quality of educators in the country is her main advocacy.

After her speech, Dr. Defensor handed a check amounting Php 2-M for the continued upgrading of the facilities at the MMSU CHED CTEx, which she praised for the marked improvements in its facilities. The two storey-building is constantly used for teacher-training programs in Northern Luzon.

As the commissioner representing CHED to the Teacher Education Council, Dr. Defensor is the proponent of the Save our Future Project (SOF) project, a component of which is the establishment of the five initial Centers for Teaching Excellence in five regions aimed to provide basic education with a steady supply of quality teachers for the formation of future Filipino citizens.

In 2005, she was appointed as a commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education. In a concurrent capacity, she sits as chairperson of the Board of Regents of 22 state colleges and universities, including MMSU. As chairperson of the Coordinating Council for Accreditation, she is tasked to oversee the quality of higher education in the country today.

Dr. Defensor has always been both a teacher and an administrator in different educational institutions in the past years—at the Philippine Women’s University, Assumption College, and at the University of the Philippines where she remains a professor of educational management.

Organized by the Program Accreditation and Quality Assurance (PAQuA) Office in coordination with CHED Center for Teaching Excellence and the College of Teacher Education, the training workshop was attended by around 200 participants, including department chairs and senior faculty members of MMSU and other state universities in Region I.

According to Dr. Cristina B. Coloma, PAQuA chief, the activity aimed to review and finalize course syllabi; formulate a common format for the preparation and development of modules; and to provide an update on the latest trends in module writing.