Uplifment of the Philippine Education as a key in the alleviation poverty and pursuit of sustainable growth and development is through quality education. Based on the Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary. Quality Education refers to the degree of excellence of one man’s capacity.
The goal of quality education is to develop the full capacities of learner and to support unfolding of individual potential. Unless we are pushed to the limits of our potential, qualitative supports are really not present.
Dr. Manuel Z. Ramiso, an Education Supervisor in Social Studies from Masbate, cites four concepts of quality in education.
The first concept of quality on the nature of the learner. Change in the learner is wrought through changing the environment, not just by mere indoctrination and command of direction. We can argue that the concept of quality effective but its effectiveness is achieved only with a small number of students.
The second concept is based on the nature of curriculum. Equality exist in the terms opportunities to take the curriculum once the learner is judged to be qualified.
The third concept of quality depends on the nature of professional staff. The more highly qualified staff the more quality will be attained. According to Wilson, deadwood faculty rarely engage research activities and may rely on lecture notes that we literally yellowed with age or base lectures on the sentences taken verbatim from textbooks.
More intellectual mastery of knowledge and skills is not adequate. One must also go out and apply the skills.
The fourth concept of quality emphasizes outputs. Quality is best achieved when all learners attain the competencies for which the educational institution is accountable. Effectiveness is measured by how many learners attain competence. This means people gain access to the materials and achieved competence that must be varied and diverse including the use of videotape, computers and a wide range of learning tools, techniques, agents and environments. The crucial differences in this fourth concept of quality, therefore , will be the diverse models of teaching and caring persons in order to achieved the desired learning outcomes.
The real test of quality in education lies with results. Quality must be viewed in terms of outcomes. The educated person should display specific competencies in specific areas. The well-educated person is able to achieved a balance between individual freedom and responsibility to society, has developed a talent that is fully translatable into a self satisfying career, and has a sense of self-worth and strong respect for other people and cultures.
Educated persons will use the skills and knowledge that can make the productive people who are useful to themselves and to the larger world community. Further, educated persons will comprehend the meaning of ethical, interpersonal relations, to have faith in and respect for others, and to have faith in themselves and man under the guidance of his intellect that can create their own destiny.
By: Ma. Victoria P. Mendoza | T-III | J.C. Payumo Jr. Memorial High School
