After two years of undergoing the CAL-EdICT program, students from San Manuel National High School of Tarlac City are now equipped with basic computer skills which will greatly aid them in their future endeavors. They were awarded Training Certificates last March 31, 2007 by Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) Computer School, a subsidiary of Informatics. The school was a recipient of the program after being chosen by the P.J. Lhuillier Inc. as it adopted school.
CAL-EdICT (Education for Information and Communication Technology), is a basic yet comprehensive courseware program that seeks to lay a solid ICT foundation and steadily develops computer use and proficiency among young students through a unique learning process in which skills are simultaneously taught and reinforced until these are mastered, as a preparation for higher learning. They were taught on the use of basic computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. |
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CAL regularly monitored the program in the said high school. Monthly reports on curriculum, courseware development, training development, faculty development, monitoring and evaluation, software, and hardware as well as projects for the next month were sent to PJLFI to be forwarded to CEO Jean Henri Lhuillier. These reports were prepared by Joel Ilagan, Business Manager and Project Implementor.
After the school’s first year on the program, an achievement test conducted by CAL showed good results. As reported by their Program Development Division Manager, Virgilio “Vijay” de Guzman, “students with minimal PC hands-on came out well.” CAL has also partnered with a recruitment agency that can send thousands of people to call centers, in which even skilled high school graduates can be hired. This news was well-received by the school’s 4th year students.
The program is P.J. Lhuillier, Inc.’s response to Republic Act No. 8525, or the Adopt-a-School Program of the Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with CAL-Informatics and DepEd. |
