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Enhanced Instructional Management for Parents, Community and Teachers
The Enhanced Instructional Management for Parents, Community and Teachers (e-IMPACT) is a learning system in Philippines that was designed in 2010 by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Innotech.
Through e-IMPACT, SEAMEO wants to address the problems in education in the Philippines’ public school system such as lack of classrooms, teachers and textbooks, high drop-out rate and a low budget allocated for education.
This technology-enhanced alternative delivery mode of learning consists of a peer-led approach is the main process that allows pupils to learn, interact with each other and develop to their fullest potential.
The initiative’s web site is at http://www.taocommunity.com/foundation/eimpact.
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In the e-IMPACT system, every single pupil has access to modules and instructional materials to guide them in their education. More than being trained on how to become facilitators of the learning process, the school faculty learns new perspectives about children and child education. Parents and members of the community become actively engaged in sustaining the system and making it work. Their support is crucial in ensuring that the learning process continues in their homes. Thus, in the process of learning with the child, a whole community is transformed.
Recognising the importance of bringing this alternative learning system to more children, TaosPuso Foundation, in partnership with SEAMEO Innotech and the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd), began to support public elementary schools in implementing the program. In 2010, TaosPuso Foundation supported Alegria Elementary School in Murcia, Negros Occidental in transforming its conventional educational system into e-IMPACT. With the help of TaosPuso Foundation, four more public elementary schools in Luzon and Visayas have become e-IMPACT schools in the school year 2011-2012: Gaya-Gaya Elementary School (Bulacan), Chrysanthemum Village Elementary School (Laguna), Central Azucarera de Tarlac Elementary School (Tarlac) and Cantil-e Elementary School (Negros Oriental).
Source: http://www.taocommunity.com/foundation/eimpact.
With help from UNICEF, teachers are trained to conduct E-IMPACT trainings to students, their families and barangay officials. They are given modules for different grade levels and subjects that the students can take home.
Source: http://www.unicef.org/philippines/reallives_10191.html
You can view presentation slides from October 2010 ICTs at Culianan Learning Center e-IMPACT System by elementary school principal Josefina M. Lacastesantos, Ed. D. Elementary School Principal III, Culianan Learning Center e-IMPACT.