CAREER GUIDANCE EXAM: April 1, 2024

The Career Occupational Preference System: Revised Interest Inventory was conducted for Grade 10 students, facilitated by the Student Development Officer, Ma’am Ronnie Ville Valdez, with support from advisers and Criminology Interns. This activity aimed to help students understand the significance of personal interests in making career decisions, identify how their interests align with various occupations, and compare their preferences with key job characteristics to determine compatibility. The test was carefully prepared and administered by Ma’am Valdez to guide students in their career exploration.

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HARNESSING INNER STRENGHT: OVERCOMING OBSTACLE: March 22, 2024

The event, attended by 217 students, took place at the Tupaya Admirals Sports Center. The keynote speaker, Ma’am Ronnie Ville Valdez, a Student Development Officer, addressed the “Boiling Frog Syndrome” to provide insights into the activity’s referral questions. This metaphor highlights the tendency to overlook escalating problems until they become critical. The discussion focused on behavioral concerns among students, including vaping and absenteeism, encouraging early intervention and proactive action.

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NOT ALONE: FEAR OF MISSING OUT AND WORTH THE WAIT: March 6, 2024

The lecture, attended by 200 students, was held at the Tupaya Gym and featured esteemed keynote speakers Mr. Bearwin Merly and Mr. Ralph Ballesteros. The event focused on empowering the youth with practical insights and strategies for personal and academic growth. Both speakers captivated the audience with their inspiring stories, expertise, and engaging delivery.

Mr. Bearwin Merly shared valuable lessons on overcoming challenges and fostering resilience, while Mr. Ralph Ballesteros emphasized the importance of leadership and community involvement in shaping a better future. The participants left the session feeling motivated and equipped with fresh perspectives to navigate their journeys.

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NOT ALONE: January 22, 2024

The event at Tupaya Gym brought together Junior High, Senior High, Nursing, and Criminology students, along with faculty, staff, and peer facilitators. The session featured inspiring talks from esteemed resource speakers: Mr. Weng Del Rosario, Ms. Venus Raj-Orillan, and Mr. Ralph Ballesteros.

Mr. Weng Del Rosario delivered an engaging talk on Relationship Goals. He emphasized key insights, such as:

• “Unhealthy relationships hurt almost every aspect of our life.”
• “We cannot properly love ourselves and others if we do not know what love really is.”
• “Love is a commitment directed towards imperfect people, to seek their highest good, which often requires sacrifice.”

He also distinguished between love and lust, encouraging students to reflect on meaningful relationships.

Ms. Venus Raj-Orillan spoke about The True You, sharing personal experiences that underscored the importance of purpose. She inspired the audience to avoid being defined by past experiences, failures, other people, or even societal culture. Instead, she urged them to let God define their identity and purpose in life.

Mr. Ralph Ballesteros addressed the students with his talk, Respeto Lang, highlighting the value of respect and its rightful recipients. He emphasized respect for three key areas:

1. God – as the Creator and ultimate authority.
2. Authority Figures – including teachers, administrators, and leaders whom God has placed in positions of responsibility.
3. Others – everyone in our circles, emphasizing that respect should extend to all without exception.

The event provided students with valuable lessons on relationships, self-identity, and respect, fostering personal growth and community spirit.

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Ayowan Program: A Commitment to Student Support and Empowerment

On April 19, 2023, the President’s Office held a crucial review and approval meeting for the Ayowan Program, a student support initiative aimed at providing mentorship and counseling to students. This program was officially launched on April 26, 2023, during the students’ program, marking a significant step in fostering a supportive academic environment.

The launch event saw enthusiastic participation from faculty and staff, who not only endorsed the program but also committed to volunteering their time and expertise. The Ayowan Program promises to be a vital resource for students, offering guidance and counseling to help them navigate their academic journey with greater confidence and well-being.

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CCDC’s Learning Continuity Plan

The Pathway to Resilience: Ensuring Quality in the Practice of Flexibility, is a learning continuity plan for school year 2021-2022 of the Cordillera Career Development College. This learning continuity plan is a roadmap for CCDC as it embarks on ensuring quality education during this new and challenging journey of distance education amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

This learning continuity plan highlights the need for flexibility in the delivery of our education services to ensure quality education through communication and collaboration from all school stakeholders. The learning continuity plan also advertise the different approaches or practices used in coming up with a relevant curriculum, creative and relevant course design and learning materials,
learner-centered service delivery modes and quality assurance methods.

In June 2020, CCDC has revisited its vision, mission and objectives to ensure that these are relevant to the current education context. CCDC flexible learning practice follows the framework of revisiting the curriculum design, adjusting the course design and instructional material development, flexible delivery mode and relevant assessment and quality assurance. With this, the CCDC learning continuity plan is rooted and anchored on the following pillars: relevant management and organization policies, student/learner support; capability building of faculty and school personnel and networking and
collaboration. These framework pillars are indispensable in creating a flexible practice of quality education of relevant education services to different school stakeholders.

The learning continuity plan has been further updated in October 2020 and January 2021 incorporating given feedback and experiences during the earlier months of delivering remote teaching and learning. In February 2021, it’s been updated to include plans and actions for its practicum, on-the-job-training and
field work for its various programs in Hospitality Management, Social Work, Teacher Education, and Criminology. This also incorporated provisions for the BS Nursing and BS Midwifery limited face-to-face classes in compliance with the Joint Memorandum Circular issued by the Commission on Higher
Education and the Department of Health. As of September 2021, new updates and provisions are included to enhance more reflexive attributes of flexible and relevant conduct of education services.

This learning continuity plan is intended as a working document that shows evidence of ensuring quality in the practice of flexibility in education. Transforming together with the current environment to pursue the essence of education purposes and objectives in stimulating relevant academic and learning support services.