DepEd standardizes Brigada Eskwela assessment
While maintenance and clean up in schools are ongoing, the Department of Education (DepEd)-7 adopts an assessment tool to standardize the monitoring and evaluation of Bridaga Eskwela in all schools in the region.
Dr. Benjamin Tiongzon, chief education supervisor of DepEd-7’s Quality Assurance Division (QAD), told The FREEMAN that he crafted a memorandum to notify school administrators and division office superintendents for the use of the assessment tool.
“This tool will be used by the division offices to monitor and evaluate the activities undertaken by the school during the implementation of the Brigada Eskwela,” he said.
Brigada Eskwela is a community-based initiative that groups together manpower, technical, material, financial, time, and methods to assist schools get ready for the opening of classes.
People volunteer to help schools in minor repairs, beautification, electrical rewiring, or provide water, sanitation, hygiene kits, safety kits, learners, and teachers kits, among others.
The maintenance and assistance to schools are not only undertaken for the sake of doing it.
Tiongzon emphasized that by using the tool, division offices will be monitoring the daily accomplishments of the schools until the culmination of Brigada Eskwela.
This activity ends before the opening of classes on June 4. Then, the division offices will consolidate all the responses of the schools belonging to their respective jurisdiction and submit a report to the regional office.
DepEd-7 office personnel, on the other hand, will analyze, interpret and evaluate the consolidated responses from the division offices and these responses will serve as the baseline in the event of providing technical assistance to these schools.
On the qualitative aspect of the tool, the division offices will have to identify the best practices of the schools as well as the challenges that they encountered during the implementation of Brigada Eskwela.
“When we analyze it (responses), we determine the common problems and so we can now initiate our own program on how these challenges or these realities will be addressed through the tool,” he said.
He said it is also equally important to recognize the best practices of the schools so that these can be replicated by other divisions or schools.