SEA-Teacher Report

11.      School: General Information and Academic Administration

Before we start our activity at the school, the university organize opening ceremony for welcoming the participants of batch 7 SEA-Teacher program. On that activity, the principal from education college give us some motivation, instruction and learning system of University of Santo Tomas.

On first day we went to the UST Junior High School, I met my cooperating teacher named Frederic Roy Manubay. After that, I did my first observed on grade 9 the section St. Cecilia and St. Cornelius.

School profile

UST Junior High School Building

The UST JHS was formally founded in 1928 as a laboratory school for student teachers, opening its doors to 110 male students on june 6, 1928 with Fr. Silvestre Sancho, O.P. as Director and Dr. Rafael Acosta as Principal. UST JHSis located in Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines. More precisely, it is located at Benavides Building University of Santo Tomas. It is one of the high school departments of the University of Santo Tomas (UST). 

Mission Statement

The mission of the UST Junior High School is to prepare students for Senior High School, to form them in faith, and to mold them with the identities of a true Thomasian – competent, committed, and compassionate, dedicated to serve God, the nation and the global community.

Our mission is defined by the following goals:

1.      Integral formation of our students;

2.      Cultivation of Christian values necessary for the formation of a right social conscience;

3.    Development of professional sound expertise in guiding, counseling, and nurturing our students’ passion for knowledge;

4.   Appreciation, preservation, enrichment, and propagation of Filipino cultural heritage rooted in a sense of history and tradition;

5.  Recognition of the role of individuals in the University, local, community, country, and the environment.

Vision Statement

The UST Junior High School envisions itself as a leading Junior High School in the country, committed to the holistic formation of its students and the cultivation of their potentials.

School Objectives

It is the aim of the UST Junior High School:

1.   To mold the students into total human persons by providing them the best educational program possible in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual, spiritual, moral, social, cultural, and physical development.

2.  To provide the students with the necessary education in order that they may become well-disciplined persons whose deportment is in harmony with Christian ideals and teachings.

3.     To help the students develop a sense of Christian leadership and service whose primary concern is the welfare of others.

4.     To cultivate in the students a genuine and fervent nationalist sense.

5.     To provide the adolescent students an all-around, sound, balanced and challenging curriculum, not only suited to their talents and abilities, but also determined to bring out the best in them and make them responsible adults in the future.

Teaching System

UST Junior High School has only one level of education, Junior High School level, which starts from grade-7 to grade-10. The classes that I used as practicum objects are 9th grade students specifically in St. Cecilia and St. Cornelius.

The UST Junior School using the Brain Based Learning System. The system are they had same schedule for Monday until Friday. The subject are math, social science, science, english and Filipino. Especially, for science be shared depend on the grade are earth science for grade-7, biology for grade-8, chemistry for grade-9 and physic for grade-10. The distribution had a lot of advantages that the student be able to learn the subject based on the difficulty rating on every grades and the same schedule can help students to remember, to understand and to apply the lesson given by the teacher.

Time per lesson hour for each day is adjusted for each segment. 1 hour of study lasts for 25 minutes. For Chemistry subjects, one meeting lasts for 3 hours (3x25 minutes). The school's start at 07.00 a.m., and ends at 4 p.m., but some classes has extension time, which is start from 04.00 p.m. until 5.30 p.m. 

Academic Support System

The facilities of  the UST Junior High School are Benavides Auditorium, 2 Audio-visual Rooms, 2 science laboratories, 3 computer laboratories with internet services, Robotics room, Drafting room, Library with on-line services with one audio visual center, Recording room, Canteen, Kitchen, Presentation room, Simbahayan community development room, Accreditation room, Multi-purpose room, Coordinators room , Administrators office, 40 multi-media and air-conditioned classroom, 4 head teachers offices,and 4 guidance and counseling offices.

UST Campus provides students with other facilities such as the Tan Yan Kee student center where the Office for Student Affairs (OSA) is found, the central library, the student health service, UST museum, Pharmacy Botanical Garden, the Quadricentennial Park,Quadricentennial Pavilon, Buenaventura Garcia Paredes O.P Building, and the plaza mayor

Here are several photos of the facilities of UST Junior High School

UST Junior High School's Class room

Library

Laboratory 1

Laboratory 2

Benavides Auditorium

UST JHS Canteen

Miguel de benavides building Museum

CURRICULUM 

The structure and content of curriculum at UST JHS using K to 12 curriculum following curriculum from Philippines Education's Department. there are six grades for elementary, four grades for junior high school, and two grades for senior high school. But, since the UST Junior High School is a private school, they are a little modifying the concepts from the government, like the distribution of the subject matter. The UST Junior High School used the Brain Based Learning concepts which is based on the function and structure of the human brain.

Materials and Other Learning Sources

The sources of learning that used in the UST Junior High School are, printed books and e-books in library, and also other authentic material. The UST Junior High School had LAA (Learning Anytime Anywhere) Class. For LAA Class, the students had tablet by their own. The tablet is uses for learning procces so they have to install any important application likes E-books, schedule app, application for assessment (Kahoot, ThatQuiz, QR scanner, etc.), application for improve english (Meriam webster, oxford dictionary, filipino-english dictionary), and many application more. The LAA Class be supported by servicer so probably they are had problem with the tablet or the tablet be lost the servicer will help them. They also uses internet as their resources.

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