TAU-Laboratory School
1.1 School
Profile
School Name:
Tarlac Agricultural Laboratory School-Laboratory High School
School location:
Malacampa, Camiling, Tarlac,
Philippines
Vision:
TAU as one of the top 500 agricultural universities in Asia.
Mission:
TAU is committed to improve the quality of life though the production of
competent graduates and relevant technologies in the service of society.
Core
Value:
Integrity, Excellence, Service
Breakthrough
Goals:
Take lead in innovative teaching methodologies using
technology and /or appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Advance agricultural productivity and income through
technology transfer and training
Use Science, Technology, and Engineering (STE) effectively
for climate change resiliency and adaptation.
General Objective:
The TAU – LS seeks to achieve the following objectives:
1. To develop the specific potentials of each individual – the moral,
spiritual, cultural, socio-civic and physical aspects of his personality for
his and society’s benefits;
2. To develop in the individual the sense of belonging to a national
community;
3. To develop intellectual and work skills in the individual focused on the
values that he must develop for the meaningful and purposeful utilization of
his skills;
4. To provide a sound criteria on recruitment, promotion, demotion,
termination and reshuffling or related personnel action on the laboratory high
school ; and
5. To develop a sound system appraisal, evaluation and feedback and program
planning on the physical, fiscal and infrastructure activities of the LHS.
Specific Objectives :
1. To strengthen instruction in all subject areas through adequate
professional teacher training and material support.
2. To increase agricultural productivity through integrated farming system
operated according to the agri-business concept
and train students to become entrepreneurs.
3. To achieve greater efficiency of work performance through continuing
program of faculty development.
4. To provide for the acquisition of instructional technology that will
ensure an efficient delivery of knowledge and their calculation of desirable
values, skills, habits, and attitudes.
TAU-LS is one of College of Education program that consist of Junior High
School and Senior High School program. Junior High School have 4 years of basic
education started grade 7 to 10, Senior High School have 2 years of basic
education started grade 11 and 12.
TAU-LS have unique system for Junior High School it have :
1. Science and Technology Curriculum
2. Agriculture-Homemaking Curriculum.
While in Senior High
School it have academic of :
1. Accoutancy, Businesss and Management
2. Humanities and social Science
3. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
4. Agriculture and Home Economics
1.2 Academic Support System
The classrooms are quite big because there are about 50
students in the class, they have one big chalkboard and one big television at
the center in front of the class for the teacher to show the slides. The
classrooms are comfortable and completed with a lot of fans.
1.3 Teaching System
Learning hold for 5 days in a week, from Monday to Friday.
Saturday and Sunday is a freeday. The class start from 7.30 a.m to 5.00 p.m. they
only have one break time, at 11.30 a.m to 1.00 p.m. Each grade has different
time for teaching in different subject. In junior high schol, The students
learn all of the subject every day for one hour each subject. So, for
Mathematics there are one hour of teaching a day and four days in a week. In
senior high school, the students learn mathematics for two hours in day for two
days in a week.
This is the schedule of some class..
1.4 Material and Other
Learning Sources
Every subject has two types of books, they are teacher’s book
and student’s book. Teacher book is a book for teacher as the guide to teach
and student’s book is for students. The other learning sources is the materials
from internal that used by the teacher for teaching. They also have TV to use
during the class discussions, powerpoint presentations, video presentations,
and etc.
1.5 Measurement and
Other Learning Sources
The system of the evaluation in this school is every quarter year the
teacher will report about the progress of the students and every end of the
year there is a appreciate moments for the best students every class.
1.6 Curriculum
Tarlac Agricultural University Laboratory School use K to 12
Basic Education Curriculum. The curriculum aims
to help learners acquire highly-developed literacy skills that enable them to
understand that English language is the most widely used medium of
communication in Trade and the Arts, Sciences, Mathematics, and in world
economy.
Furthermore, the curriculum aims to help learners understand
that English language is a dynamic social process which responds to and
reflects changing social conditions, and that English is inextricably involved
with values, beliefs and ways of thinking about ourselves and the world we
dwell in. Through multi-literacy skills, learners will be able to
appreciate and be sensitive to socio-cultural diversity and understand that the
meaning of any form of communication depends on context, purpose and audience.
1.7 Teaching Plan
Before teaching, the teacher always prepare lesson plan. There
are two types of lesson plans in TAU, the detailed lesson plan and brief lesson
plan (semi detailed). The lesson plan consists Objectives, Subject Matter
(Topic, Subtopic, Material, and references), Teaching Strategies/Procedure,
Developmental Activities, Lesson Proper/Presentation, Generalization,
Evaluation, and Agreement/Assignment. The lesson plan has 3 or 4 pages of papers
per meeting, the topics just for a day, it is more simple than the lesson plan
in Indonesia. In Indonesia, lesson plan is more than 10 pages of papers because
it has one topic not only for a day.
