The need for simple reFORMS (Day 13)
by Rey Laguda
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This is the 13th day of 50-day journey of DepEd Undersecretary Rey Laguda as being serialized here with his permission, culled from his Facebook account - Blogger/owner)
Teachers deal with a lot of paperwork. It's a major part of their work. There are many forms to be filled up at the school level by both teachers and administrators. There were forms that even contained similar information that were gathered repeatedly. The need to simplify and streamline beckoned.
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So in 2012, The School Forms Review Team was formed representing teachers, principals, division personnel including the superintendent, regional and central office personnel. The work was to review all existing forms at the school level and to generate feedback and discussion on usage, timing, content, and process flow. The objective was to rationalize data elements in existing school forms and create simplified new forms without compromising quality of data gathered. A total of 67 school forms were included as baseline inventory. From this number, 36 were identified as the most common school forms that cut across divisions. A smaller number of 16 forms were then identified as priority for review. From November of 2012 to March 2013, consultation and discussions were held to cover SY 2012-2013. This involved an iterative process, doing time and motion studies, understanding scenarios of schools with computers and without computers, etc.
