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HSF Alumni Year-End Assembly
Former HSF scholars review the year’s activities and prepare for 2023

As 2022 winds down, Hannsiklub members gather for their Fourth Quarter General Membership Meeting to sum up activities held in the past months and strategise about plans for the coming year. The hybrid meeting had, in person, three Dela Paz Elementary School representatives and nineteen members; and, online, four and eight, respectively. It was held with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which also hosted the meeting online.

What lies in the horizon for the former scholars in 2023?  In the past few years, the they had, like many all over the world, gone through serious challenges, professionally and personally, and as members of the Hannsiklub.  They were striving to meet online even as they were working to triumph over the circumstances brought about by the global health situation.  Ultimately, what prevailed was the camaraderie and the commitment to help others, such as the pupils of the Dela Paz Elementary School (DPES).  At the same time, the former scholars had been looking forward to seeing each other again and to planning for the coming year.

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As part of her projects, Hannsiklub member Dr. May Zuleika Q. Salao, who was Director of the University of Asia and the Pacific’s (UA&P) Political Economy Program, coordinated with the German Lucas Bachert Foundation (LBF), which extended assistance to the DPES through the UA&P.  This assistance was realised through the DPES’s Share-a-H.E.L.P. (Heart in E-Learning Technology for Pupils) Program, which the DPES representatives discussed in detail in the meeting.  Teacher Sarah Lee G. Alcantara discussed the “Key to Technological Education.”  Master Teacher Ms. Ma. Carina Q. Javier provided additional insights in her discussion of the “Transformation of Learning with the Use of Educational Technology.”  Meanwhile, Principal Dr. Rodelio I. Perez, Jr. gave a presentation on the essential need to “Encourage Learners to Have a Dream.”  

The DPES started the Share-a-H.E.L.P. Program last May 2021 as a project envisioned to help “enable the school to push for a more efficient gadget-based learning system as an alternative to face-to-face classes.”  As of November 2022, 82 learners – Kinder to Grades One to Six pupils aged five to eleven -- had benefited from the program, which received assistance from the LBF in the form of tablets -- learning devices loaded with non-expiring 30G data.  These devices are also being used to facilitate the conduct of various Department of Education (DepEd) programs, such as Amplified Numeracy Assessment and Comprehensive Rapid Literacy Assessment, in the Department’s efforts to address learning gaps and contribute to producing graduates under the K-to-12 curriculum who are competent, employable, and of exemplary character.  The Program is intended to be open to all of DPES’s 656 learners as modern education continues to call for evolving technology solutions that respond to their learning needs.

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The resource speakers from the DPES responded to questions posited by the participants and HSF representatives during the open forum, where they elaborated on the benefits of the Share-a-H.E.L.P. Program's effective operation and expressed gratitude for the chance to do so.  The former scholars were glad to know how the DPES had made good use of the assistance extended to them by the LBF. 

They also welcomed being able to see each other again both in person and online.  At the same time, they took the opportunity to personally thank and bid farewell to the HSF Philippine Resident Representative, Mr. Götz Heinicke.  He, in turn, expressed appreciation for the support and friendship shown to him during his tenure by the former scholars.  His assignment in the Philippines concludes on 31 December 2022, after which he will move directly to West Africa, the place of his next posting.  Mr. Heinicke voiced hopes that everyone will work together to ensure the continuance of the group's successful endeavors in the future and confirmed that his successor, Mr. Henning Hillmer from Hamburg, Germany, will be in the Philippines the following year.

The Hanns Seidel Foundation provides study grants to young professionals who have expressed interest to pursue further training (up to 2 years) in Germany, mainly in fields related to the Foundation's project activities in the country.

Read more about the Foundation’s scholarship programs at: https://southeastasia.hss.de/philippines/scholarship-programmes/

Links

Amplified Numeracy Assessment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B55SKvu8enr9jVGJHCsJI0gtRqf92fJT/view 

 

Comprehensive Rapid Literacy Assessment

The first link is the planning of its implementation by training the trainers and the second one is the conduct of such assessments.

https://www.deped.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DO_s2022_027.pdf 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yqJJJm0yj0cmJ4fw0mCrPPmHxPrWb72/view 

 

 

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