Tboli village school is Number 1 in achievement test

    

MAITUM, Sarangani (October 13, 2012) - Quality Education for Sarangani Today(QUEST) program manager Annalie Edday congratulates the pupils and teachers of Kipalkuda Elementary School for being the Number 1 in ratings among the elementary schools around Maitum in the National Achievement Test 2012 during the education summit in barangay New La Union Thursday, October 11. For more news and updates, please visit the< a href= http://www.sarangani.gov.ph/ > Province of Sarangani . (Joylyn Ty/MAITUM INFORMATION OFFICE)

Sarangani teachers train on indigenous learning system

POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (October 18, 2012) - Annalie Edday, program manager of Quality Education for Sarangani Today, gives the rationale to participants during the Seminar on the Importance of Indigenous Learning System Thursday, October 18, at Durian Garden. Participants are teachers of Grade VI and high school of all integrated schools in Sarangani. The training focuses on creative processes in articulating ideas and promoting a culture of Siningbayan, Bayanihan and Sarilikha.  The training also included topics on upholding a consciousness of integrity and prosperity as a human right in classroom learning experience. For more news and updates, please visit the http://www.sarangani.gov.ph/ > Province of Sarangani

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Tribal chief shows indigenous weaving

GLAN, Sarangani (January 21, 2013) - Carlos Blatang Sr., tribal chieftain of Datal Bukay, demonstrates the process of making  “kalakat” to the participants of the Indigenous Learning Survival Camp on January 17-19 at Tangan Integrated School. ”Kalakat” is made up of sliced fresh bamboo woven together that is useful in many ways like ceiling and walling in a traditional house of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs). Nowadays, it is used not only by the IPs. At Datal Bukay, ”kalakat” is one of the prime products making it the community’s source of income. The Quality Education for Sarangani Today (QUEST) conducted the training participated in by representative-teachers coming from the seven municipalities of the province. For more news and updates, please visit the http://www.sarangani.gov.ph/ > Province of Sarangani

(Jake T. Narte/ PROVINCIAL INFORMATION OFFICE

Public school teachers learn IP basics

By JENNY ROSE DE GUZMAN

GLAN, Sarangani (January 21, 2013) – Teachers gathered at Tangan Integrated School at barangay Datal Bukay for the Indigenous Learning Survival Camp on January 17.

Quality Education for Sarangani Today (QUEST) conducted the training participated in by representative teachers from the different public elementary and high schools across the province.  

The training basically aims to promote and strengthen the culture of the Indigenous People (IP) including those that have slowly been forgotten and less practiced by the younger generation of IPs.

In Sarangani, a huge number of population belongs to the IP but as perceived, their culture are gradually vanishing with “discrimination” as its cause, said Annalie Edday, QUEST program manager.

The three-day learning camp was the first phase of action taken by QUEST with its objective of pursuing the integration of IP culture in the curriculum.

The basic skills taught were fire production, rice pounding, fishing, and root crops gathering. 

Tribal leaders and elders served as the mentors during the immersion. 

The authorship of lesson plans was the second phase. The teachers were tasked to compile lesson plans based on the training taught by tribal leaders and elders that would be verified through further research and interviews. And the defense in the final phase would determine its pursuance or not. (Jenny Rose de Guzman/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)

TRIBU, BANGON!

TRIBU, BANGON!
Annalie T. Edday

Patuloy na lumalaban ang aming mga pusong nasusugatan
Trabaho, sakripisyo, serbisyo, ay patuloy na pinagyayaman
... Ikakabuti, ikakaunlad ng tribu ay laging isinasaalang-alang
Upang maibangon ang tribong matagal ng napag-iwanan.

Paaraalan, daan, bahay-pagamutan ay di man lang nasilayan
Ng aming mga ninunong pinanganak sa lupang pinabayaan
Kaya hanggang sila ay tumanda at namatay na lamang
Konting kasaganaan ay di man lang natikman.

Kaya sa tribong pinanganak sa bagong henerasyon
Kahirapang dinanas ng ninuno ay maging inspirasyon
Magsumikap ng husto at mangarap ng walang limitasyon
Upang sa gayon, sa problema ng tribu ay maging solusyon.

Maging mapagmatyag, makialam at makibaka
Tradisyong di kanais-nais at di nakakatulong ay isantabi na
Solusyon sa problema ay huwag na huwag ipaubaya
Sa mga mapanghusga at pulitikong mapagsamantala.

Hoy tribu, bangon na! Magkapit-bisig at panahon na
Mapagsupil na kamangmangan at karukhaan ay lipunin na
Matiwasay na pamumuhay, magandang bukas ay mapasaatin na
Dahil ito ang dapat na buhay at bukas ng bawat isa.

*****
Bong salamat Ann Edday!