Official Publication of TESDA-Caraga
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TESDA officials undergo communications training
To intensify its partnership with the media, officials of the TESDA in the Visayas and Mindanao Regions have attended a three-day communications training program in Cebu City...
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SdN Training Center is now DTS-accredited The Provincial Training Center of Surigao del Norte has passed the standards set by TESDA and received the Dual Training System (DTS) accreditation certificate...
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NTTC Level 1 holders Success Story...
2013 Caraga Reg’l skills competition set
The holding of this year’s Regional Skills Competition in Caraga is already set as CATVII officers recently converged in a meeting to prepare for the upcoming activity...
C4TP Culminating Activity in Dinagat Islands Province
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by Gervacio C. Dauz, Jr.
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ESDA-Caraga has continuously intensify the implementation of PNoy Bayanihan project with the distribution of 1,100 armchairs this month in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur.
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Armchair distribution in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
Communications Training for TESDA Officials
Cover Story Editorial Team Managing Florencio F. Sunico, Jr., DPA Director Regional Director Technical Braulio P. Dela Peña, Jr. Adviser ROD Chief Editor-in- Abegail B. Eupeña chief Senior TESD Specialist Managing Chiselo Joiada R. Bernaldez Editor Administrative Assistant III Contributors Robert E. Roperos Gervacio C. Dauz, Jr. Layout Consuelo T. Destacamento Artists Mc Franco Zenu J. Franco
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Agusan del Norte
G. De Villa - Rodrigo Provincial Director
Agusan del Sur
- Joventino D. Aleta
Surigao del Norte
- Liza B. Budtan
Surigao del Sur
- Rey M. Cueva
Dinagat Islands
TESDA-Caraga turns over armchairs in Surigao del Sur
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Provincial Director (085) 343-7278
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fficials of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in Caraga Region recently turned-over 1,100 armchairs in Surigao del Sur.
In his speech during the ceremony proper, TESDA-Caraga Regional Director Dr. Florencio Sunico Jr. underscored the collaborative efforts of the public and private agencies and organizations in the realization of the project. Dr. Sunico also acknowledged the support extended by the provincial and municipal local government units by utilizing their local resources in mobilizing the chairs from the production site in Agusan del Sur to Surigao del Sur. The official said the project will benefit school children in the province who are the future leaders not only of the province and the region, but the whole nation as well. “The real beneficiaries of this project are our school children who are the future leaders of our nation,” Sunico said. Sunico further stressed like the other projects implemented by all government agencies, the PNoy Bayanihan project is a triumph of convergence since different sectors of society are involved from planning until its implementation. “… and with the success of its implementation, we are all victorious,” he added. For her part, Surigao del Sur Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Teofila Cabatuan expressed her gratitude for this noble project of the national government. She added because of the additional armchairs, schoolchildren in the aforementioned schools will experience conducive learning as they will be september 2013 TESDA-Caraga pulse beat 3
comfortable sitting in their armchairs while listening to their class discussions. According to TESDA-Surigao del Sur Provincial Office, among the schools that were benefitted from the project include Tandag Central Elementary School, Carmen Integrated School and Mahanahon Elementary School. The activity was also graced by Surigao del Sur 1st District Cong. Philip Pichay; Gov. Johnny Pimentel; Dept. of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Caraga Regional Director Atty. Johnson CaĂąete; TESDA-Surigao del Sur Provincial Director Rey Cueva; Supervising TESDA Specialist Allan Millan; Tandag City General Services Officer Aldy Novo; Col Gregory Cayetano, Commanding Officer of the 401st Infantry (Unity) Brigade; Lt Col Ricardo Leonardo of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion, Lt Col Anastacio Suaybaguio of the 36th IB; and Lt Col Noman Alcovindas of the 75th IB. The armchair production is part of the PNoy Bayanihan Project, a collaborative effort of the Depart4
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COR), and TESDA. It aimed at helping the education sector to eradicate the backlog of school armchairs and other furniture requirements of the DepEd schools as well as provide livelihood opportunities to communities where the furniture production site is located. It can be recalled that during the program’s launching in February 3, 2012 here, TESDA Sec. Joel Villanueva leads the ceremony together with DepEd Sec. Bro. Armin Luistro, PAGCOR Chairman Cristino Naguiat Jr., and DENR Asst. Sec. Michelle Go. The project is also funded by PAGCOR with an initial of Php 100 million for its requirements. It also aimed to establish School Furniture Training and Production Centers in at least ten sites all over the country and one of which is the Agusan del Sur School of Arts and Trades (ASSAT) in Patin-ay, Agusan del Sur. ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Education (DepEd), Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAG-
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in the government. “We have to continue to strengthen our advocacy campaigns. Because of what we did previously, we made TESDA one of the most popular agencies in the government today,” Hernandez said.
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Meanwhile, TESDA-Caraga Regional Director Dr. Florencio Sunico pointed out that the activity is in time since the people has the right to know of what the government has been doing, in support to the transparency and accountability program of Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III.
“This is in support to the flagship program of the present ado intensify its partnership with the media, officials ministration. Through of the Technical Education and Skills Development this, we could be able to Authority (TESDA) in the Visayas and Mindanao Restrengthen our linkage gions have attended a three-day communications or partnership with the local media whom we training program in Cebu City. considered our information multipliers,” Dir. In her welcome message, TESDA pine Development Plan as the agency’s top Sunico said. Region VII Director Rosalinda Urdaneta management believes that improving the Mr. Carlos Munsaid she is happy to know that her region skills on advocacy must be needed because da, a consultant from was chosen to be the host of the event since TESDA has lots of programs. hosting the event means that TESDA top of- “We need to improve our skills on the Lighthouse Comficials have trust and confidence to their of- advocacy program because TESDA has lots munications Company served as Resource fice that they can host events like this. of programs,” Hernandez said. Dir. Urdaneta further said TESDA is Hernandez likewise stressed the Speaker who discussed one of the biggest agencies of the Philippine training is also aimed at gaining more part- the Power and the Role government, “thus, the need to carry the ners and not just to advocate and dissemi- of Media, How Orinformation to the public so that they will nate information. “This activity allows us to ganizations can Work know the plans and programs implemented gain more partners, not just to advocate and with the Media, Writing Press Releases, Tips by our agency.” disseminate information,” she added. Also, TESDA Public Information The PIO chief of the agency also not- on Preparing Speeches Office Executive Director Marta Hernan- ed that because of the intensified advocacy and Presentations, Print dez said the agency is giving focus to the campaigns of TESDA, the agency has now Tools, and Writing FeaHuman Development Cluster of the Philip- become one of the most popular agencies ture Stories. (RER) september 2013 TESDA-Caraga pulse beat 5
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he Provincial Training Center of Surigao del Norte has passed the standards set by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and received the Dual Training System (DTS) accreditation certificate.
Surigao del Norte Training Center DTS-accredited
In a simple ceremony held recently at TESDA-Caraga Regional Office in Butuan City, Regional Director Dr. Florencio Sunico Jr. handed-in the Certificate of Accreditation to TESDASurigao del Norte OIC-Provincial Director Liza Budtan who represented the training center. The DTS Programs and Dualized Training Programs (DTP) shall be implemented pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Rule VI of Republic Act No. 7796, otherwise known as the Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994, which states that “TESDA shall implement R.A. 7686, otherwise known as the Dual Training System (DTS) Act of 1994”, and lend support and encourage increasing utilization of the DTS as provided for in the aforementioned Act. The DTS Act aims to encourage increasing utilization of the DTS by both public and private Technical Vocational Institutions (TVIs). It also encourages increasing levels of investment in TVET by both public and private sectors especially in the rural areas.
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The law also enhances the employability and productivity of TVET graduates by equipping them with cognitive, psychomotor and affective skills that are demanded at the workplace, and strengthens cooperation in human resource development between establishments and TVIs by designing and implementing marketled TVET programs in coordination with the local government units concerned. The main purpose of accreditation is to ensure high quality Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) by establishing and maintaining the DTS/DTP accreditation standards which shall encourage an increasing number of TVIs and establishments to implement the said programs. It also ensure that the objectives of the DTS law are achieved, as well as ensuring that the management of the programs is quality assured. DTS accreditation shall be issued to TVIs and establishments that meet all the requirements provided for under the DTS Law, particularly on the prescribed payment of the training
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allowance to the students/trainees. DTP accreditation, on the other hand, is issued to TVIs and establishments that meet all the requirements of the DTS Law, except for the prescribed payment of the training allowance to the students/ trainees. The DTS is an instructional delivery system of technical, vocational education and training that combines inplant and in-school training based on a training plan collaboratively designed and implemented by an accredited dual system educational institution/ training center and accredited dual system participating establishments. The duration of the in-school and inplant training under this system shall not be more than the duration of the registered program of the TVI. Aside from Surigao del Norte Provincial Training Center that is accredited for its qualification on electronics, the same certificate was also awarded to its partner industry – the Panasonic Precision Devices Philippines Corporation of Sta. Rosa, Laguna. (RER)
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he holding of this year’s Regional Skills Competition in Caraga is already set as officers of the Caraga Association of Technical-Vocational Institutions, Inc. (CATVII) recently converged in a meeting to prepare for the upcoming activity.
2013 Caraga Reg’l Skills Competition set This year’s skills competition is hosted by the Agusan del Norte provincial office of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), where skills competencies and competitiveness of technical-vocational students will be showcased on November 18-19, 2013. Mr. Rommel Natad, Senior TESD Specialist and the event’s focal person said that skills competition will be conducted in the cities of Butuan and Cabadbaran because of its facilities and equipment that can cater the different qualifications/ skills. However, Natad said most of the skills competition will be held at the covered court of the Agusan del Norte Provincial Capitol here. Also, Caraga Association of Technical Vocational Institutions, Inc. (CATVII) President Inocencio Angeles Jr. enjoined its members to actively support and participate in this undertaking to promote skills
competencies and competitiveness among students in the technicalvocational schools in the region. Angeles further explained by showcasing the skills of the tech-voc students, more people especially the youths will be encouraged to take up tech-voc courses as means to alleviate poverty and improve economic condition not only in the region but the country, as well. Meanwhile, in an earlier speaking engagement, TESDACaraga Regional Director Dr. Florencio Sunico Jr. stressed as part of the advocacy campaign of the agency, there is a need to raise public awareness through month-long advocacy campaigns using various forms of media on the conduct of the event. The official added people from all ages should be aware that at present, enrolling in tech-voc is a way of developing skills and be globally competitive. “Through this, tech-voc graduates can easily find job both
domestic and abroad,” he said. Dr. Sunico further said the holding of the Regional Skills Competition also encourages any forms of support from Local Government Units (LGUs), TechnicalVocational Institutions (TVIs), and industries. “This is another form of convergence, and I am optimistic that we can achieve another triumph of convergence through this,” Sunico added. The regional skills competition is a friendly competition on technical and vocational skills among trainees. Competitors are endorsed by the respective Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) Institutions in Caraga Region who are currently enrolled or has completed at least six-months tech-voc program prior to the competition of Training Centers and/or Technical - Vocational schools of trade areas such Food and Beverage Services (Restaurant
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Armchairs Distribution Sample armchairs that were distributed to some schools in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur as part of the PNoy Bayanihan Project.
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur September 9, 2013
Teachers of Quintos Elementary School entertain the crowd with a folk dance presentation.
Officials of TESDA posed with LGU and DepEd officials in Tandag City after the ceremonial turnover of 1,100 armchairs.
Singing Ambassadors of Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU) present a choral rendition. TESDA-Caraga pulse beat september 2013 8
Students and teachers recite their pledge of commitment to take care the armchairs that were turned-over by TESDA-Caraga.
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DepEd EcoTech Center, Lahug, Cebu City September 2 to 7, 2013
TESDA-Caraga participants spearheaded by Dir. Florencio Sunico, Jr. (right) in one of the workshops.
Dir. Florencio Sunico Jr. hands-over a copy of TESDA-Caraga PulseBeat to Mr. Rinzi Fadirlan of TESDA Public Information Office.
TESDA-Caraga Reg’l. Dir. Florencio Sunico, Jr. gives his Impression to the Training, representing all RDs of Visayas and Mindanao.
Dir. Sunico exchange pleasantries with his contemporaries in TESDA Regions 6, 7, and 8 during a break. september 2013 TESDA-Caraga pulse beat 9
2013 Caraga Reg’l Skills... From page 7... Service), Electrical Installation & promotes cooperation between Maintenance (Electrical Installations and among TVET institutions and Technology), Visual Graphics stakeholders of the TVET sector; Design (Graphics Design), Shielded promotes knowledge transfer of Metal Arc Welding (Welding), PC voc-tech education and training Operation (IT/Software Application), technologies; highlights the active Commercial Cooking (Cooking). participation and contribution of The event showcases and industry organizations in advocating recognizes the work excellence of skills excellence through competition; trainees for both sexes in a competitive magnetize the attention and sustain setting. It also provides the technical- the interest of young people towards vocational education and training tech voc occupations; instill selfsystem with an objective and precise esteem and pride among those who means of measuring the comparative choose the blue–collar vocation, by and collective quality of its output. advocating through the competition Also, the skills competition activities, the vital role of trainees
in nation-building; and cultivate the cooperative spirit of the various stakeholders in the development of middle-level technical workforce. Featured trade areas in the two-day competition are IT/Software Application, Visual Graphics Design, Welding, Commercial Cooking, Food and Beverages Services, Electrical Technology, and Plumbing and Heating Technology. Winners of the different trade areas will represent the region in the National Skills Competition slated on the first quarter of 2014 in Metro Manila. (RER)
Success Success Story Story by Gervacio C. Dauz, Jr.
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n the beginning it was not so for Noel. Born to a relatively welloff family, which was considered to be a big fish in a small pond, he was flooded with good amenities and his necessities were met dotingly by his parents during his growing up years in the frontiers of Caseclan in Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte.
“I took the one less traveled by” However, in the midst of plenty, he still found a quantum of reasons to complain; he was afflicted with polio months after he was born and therefore could not walk. He felt that his lot in life was merely to be a liability in the family, a whining brat who demanded that all his caprices and whims be taken cared of by others. One thing going for him was his drive to move on and up. Thus, because of his ambition, which is to prove to himself and his family that he could be an asset, he persevered in going to school, even if it meant that somebody would carry and tug him along.
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Like a seesaw, of course, he at times felt self-pity because of his condition in life. But then he got the courage and fortitude also to veer into the sunny side of life. Indeed, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . .” When he graduated from high school back at his rustic home town in year 1995, he determined upon himself to knock at the doors of heaven, so that he can walk – even if not normally. At least, for him, it would still be a walk. Meanwhile, he shelved his plan to go to college and focused rather on incessantly calling up his aunt – Margarita Japitana McDermott, who’s residing at Tampa, Florida – to help him stand on his feet. He likewise pummeled his father with bullets of request to help him go to the United States so that he can be rehabilitated. His father, who at that time was a municipal councilor, was grieved and therefore egged others to help him help himself. Several politicians like the then Congresswoman Charito Plaza and even the then House Speaker, Cong. Jose de Venecia, bamboozled the U.S. embassy to be humanitarian enough, so that this poor soul – named Noel – would be attended to in the U.S. But to no avail; the embassy could not be moved. After almost a year of frequenting the embassy to no avail, one US politician, who’s known to be Cong. Fuller, heard his resolute petition, got pity on him, and later intervened in his behalf in a strongly worded appeal to the embassy. Presto, he made it to U.S. The Doctors at the Shriners Hospital in Tampa. Florida, known to be the center for rehabilitating crippled patients, took charge of him right away after diagnosing that he had a good chance of being able to walk. Sponsored by Morocco Temple, which is a humanitarian organization, he got confined at said hospital from September 1996 up to March 1997, underwent at least four major surgical operations, and had to frequent the hospital often for post-op rehabilitation. His aunt’s moral support held him through throughout the ordeal of his rehabilitation process. And then he was back to the Philippines when the doctors gave him a clean bill of health. He then pursued a two-year Computer Technician course at the now
defunct Butuan City Training Center, then continued to pursue higher studies at the Agusan Institute of Technology also in Butuan City until he graduated with a degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in year 2004. While working as a Network Administrator for DENR Regional Office starting year 2004, he likewise established an internet café business at Emily Homes, Butuan City. The business side was picking up well, but he folded shop later due to misunderstanding with a family kin by
affinity. The year 2007 was a pivotal epoch for him; he resigned from his DENR job, plunged into a business partnership with two partners in Bayugan City by putting up a computer shop and sales, and dubbing the same as NPJ Computer Express with him as the main computer technician. (NPJ means Nestal, Pastrana, and Japitana.) By 2011, he put up a single proprietorship business known as the Data Thread Computers in Cabadbaran City, and in 2012 he established another single proprietorship business, the Data Trend Computers, in Butuan City. Silently, or perhaps going incognito, he also has a construction company which ventures into constructing canal linings in Surigao del Sur. He owns several earth-moving equipment like two backhoes, a mixer, etc. For swift mobility in shuttling between his several
businesses, he got a Starex van and another pick up type SUV. Needless to say, we need not speculate whether he got millions of bucks to bankroll and sustain his several businesses. It’s fairly obvious, isn’t it? Now, at 34 years of age, but still single, he feels to have reached the pinnacle of success, all because he disciplined himself to dwell only on the positive side of life. As one writer puts it, “It is not what we can’t, but what we can that matters.” As one who had been down and close to the gutters before, he made it a point, as a matter of devotion, to spread glad tidings and cheers to the least of his brethren like the elderly and street children through gift-giving and other interventions. “Instead of celebrating my own birthday,” he shared, “I dispense of it and spend the intended money for them. It makes me happier in the end.” His close associate, Mr. Dulfuss Nollora, revealed that he’s been doing it for five years already. Meanwhile, he dreamed of establishing a SEC-registered foundation, so that he could formally, sustainably, and more passionately engage in development interventions. When asked when he plans to settle down, he smiled and revealed that he got a 25-year old sweetie who answers by the name of Sheila Mae. He plans to settle down with her at the most auspicious time, this he shared. Meantime, he continues to dream of a better tomorrow, so that when he continues to get blessed, he will sustain his binge also of shoveling out a part of his riches as a Good Samaritan and responsible humanitarian citizen of his community. Perhaps, as one featuring him, I shall still be talking about him from time to time as a good role model, who got up from the mud and started shining. But of course, as a description in a nutshell, more apt for him are the lines of a poem by Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), which states: “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
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Dinagat Islands Province The Cash for Training Project (C4TP) is a TESDA collaboration with DSWD that has been effective as significant training provision and intervention on the identified priority skills need has been pursued as a shared responsibility to address community development. A total of 142 beneficiaries from the province have finished the program. Self-employment recipients were given entrepreneurship training program to enable potential entrepreneurs to generate and select business ideas that can be subsequently developed into a concrete business or any productive economic activity.
Cash for Training Project Culminating Activity This training completed the beneficiaries’ needs for self-sufficiency and equipped them for entrepreneurial activities. The Province of Dinagat Islands us less urban with less opportunities for skills provision. This is bringing the training to the communities. This is reaching the grassroots. This is REAL DEAL. QUALIFICATIONS OFFERED: Wage Employed: Driving NC II Self-Employed: Automotive Servicing NC I Driving NC II EIM NC II CHS NC II
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