We now have the results of the Chess Arbiter's Year-end Party held last December 26 at the Ramon Magsaysay-Cubao High School:
CAAP Chess 960 Final Standing
CAAP Blitz Chess Final Standing
Congratulations to the Chess Arbiter's Association of the Philippines for another year of well-organized chess tournaments all over the Philippines!
Thanks to Mr. Gatz Luz for the results!
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Wika Para sa Lahat
Magandang araw! Magandang hapon! Magandang gabi! If you understood any of the words or phrases I used, chances are that you know they come...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
How Not to Promote Schools
The end of 2010 is days away and here I am taking a reprieve from all the holiday parties around me. While much of the Christian world has wrongly celebrated Christmas with commercialism, I'd like to share my insights on how not to promote schools. I thought of this post some months ago when I was asked to be part of the judge committee for a local school's "talent show" which was held in one of the malls in Cavite.
In the time of economic recession due to financial blunders of global proportions, finding a carrot to stay afloat in a sink or swim business called education is not that easy and the following ideas might be a good source of inspiration for all the school administrators out there.
Allow me.
1. Lose Terribly in Inter-School Contests
In a single academic year, there are thousands of contests for schools to join in. In the academic area, we have Math Olympiads, Quiz Bee, Oration, Writing contests, Science contests which involves but not limited to experiments and discoveries, Robotics Olympiad.
If you are a school administrator, you would want to send a team that would make a good name of your school. Remember, these inter-school contests are avenues for your students to gauge what they have learned and continue to learn in your school. Parents will be watching these games and you want to keep your customers happy.
It's alright to lose but what's important is you played and participated in the games. But you wouldn't want to become the butt of jokes after the event because these will definitely circle around the schools and nowadays, the Internet has it's way of globalizing almost all kinds of embarrassment for any institution. Take for instance, you joined the Math Olympiad and after the rounds, the judges start to give a wink or a smile to one another whenever the representative of School X take its turn. Or the scribe for the contest tallies the point in favor of your opponent since the scribe has developed the habit of scoring against your team automatically because you have not answered any question correctly since.
Lose terribly in inter-school contests is one way not to promote your school.
The idea stated above applies to other interscholastic events like sports, performance events which include but are not limited to voice and choral contests, debates and speeches, poetry and writing contests and others.
One story I heard:
Inter-School Basketball Tournament. Every member school comes in high spirit, with the full support of every joining schools. Teams come in buses and in complete basketball uniforms. You will notice that a certain popultaion arrives in trickles, using their own cars and arrives wearing their own inter-Baranggay basketball uniforms.
So you begin to wonder if there are other tournaments happening in the same venue but the guys are convening in the same area as you are so that gives you the feeling that they must be a member school. So you wait for their big boss to distribute their basketball uniforms until the whistle blows to signal the opening of the event.
Then everyone takes the cue, each team forms a line and oh how cute these kids are in basketball jerseys, multi-thousand sneakers and all the peripherals these amateurs wear to feel good about themselves. Then you direct your gaze to the one team that wore no uniform. Ouch!
Parents, tournament organizers, on-lookers, groupies and haters start to ask, what school is this? Joining an inter-school basketball tournament, showing up without any uniform?
That is plain demoralizing for the students and parents are seeing these and you know what, they don't want their kids to be associated with such disorganized school.
2. Do a School Talent Show of Student in Public without Talents
You know what I mean with this. Imagine bystanders, invited guests and again, parents of the students watching the show. With all the billboards and tarpaulins shouting out your school's name while the sing and dance performance of your students were inspired by the likes of Sexbomb Dancers, Madonna, Britney Spears and all the dirty pop-culture you can think of. Students performing in the middle of a mall, wearing two-piece and dancing with someone what looks like a position straight out of book Kama Sutra.
To make what looks like a gross neglect on the part of the marketing people more serious, you invite a stand-up comedian whose main line of laugh stock is cross-dressing and sexual undertones.
And then, the school proudly shows off students who can't hit the right note, forgotten stanzas of spoken word performance and in-between, you have technical problems like malfunctioning microphones and master of ceremonies not knowing the singular-plural rules.
What do you get? A blockbuster of flops and boos.
3. Remove/Stop School Programs and Services without Announcement to Parents
Tell all the lies to parents to cover up the real reason for stopping a school program or services which the parents are really happy about. It's like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs if you do this. What happens is that the parents are the last ones to know about the changes in school.
For reasons known only to men of devilish nature, a school will run based on a micro-management albeit dictatorial, certain small schools survive this kind of a system.
One example:
A sports event during summer time is expected to be hot. Then come one teacher excusing herself from the heat, goes to the principal to ask permission to go home. Since we are in a micro-management system, either the principal says yes or no. For the teacher to get a nod, one must say all the negative things about the event.
The bull nods, then comes raging to the event and stops it.
Bravo!
Everyone stops, takes a ride home and laughs at the decision made by the bull. Meanwhile, parents complain about the stoppage and asks, ain't sports supposed to be tiring?
4. Start a Program that Do Not Cater to your Clients
A fact: Football, basketball, swimming, chess, taekwondo, volleyball, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton and athletics are some of the proven and tested sports program that truly invites parents to enroll their children in schools here in the Philippines.
Any other program introduced can only tell you two things, either you have a really, really fool-proof secret program known only to you or you simply want to kiss asses of your bosses.
The four stated ideas are proven ways to promote your schools into oblivion. Any other ideas you have in mind? Send them to me.
In the time of economic recession due to financial blunders of global proportions, finding a carrot to stay afloat in a sink or swim business called education is not that easy and the following ideas might be a good source of inspiration for all the school administrators out there.
Allow me.
1. Lose Terribly in Inter-School Contests
In a single academic year, there are thousands of contests for schools to join in. In the academic area, we have Math Olympiads, Quiz Bee, Oration, Writing contests, Science contests which involves but not limited to experiments and discoveries, Robotics Olympiad.
If you are a school administrator, you would want to send a team that would make a good name of your school. Remember, these inter-school contests are avenues for your students to gauge what they have learned and continue to learn in your school. Parents will be watching these games and you want to keep your customers happy.
It's alright to lose but what's important is you played and participated in the games. But you wouldn't want to become the butt of jokes after the event because these will definitely circle around the schools and nowadays, the Internet has it's way of globalizing almost all kinds of embarrassment for any institution. Take for instance, you joined the Math Olympiad and after the rounds, the judges start to give a wink or a smile to one another whenever the representative of School X take its turn. Or the scribe for the contest tallies the point in favor of your opponent since the scribe has developed the habit of scoring against your team automatically because you have not answered any question correctly since.
Lose terribly in inter-school contests is one way not to promote your school.
The idea stated above applies to other interscholastic events like sports, performance events which include but are not limited to voice and choral contests, debates and speeches, poetry and writing contests and others.
One story I heard:
Inter-School Basketball Tournament. Every member school comes in high spirit, with the full support of every joining schools. Teams come in buses and in complete basketball uniforms. You will notice that a certain popultaion arrives in trickles, using their own cars and arrives wearing their own inter-Baranggay basketball uniforms.
So you begin to wonder if there are other tournaments happening in the same venue but the guys are convening in the same area as you are so that gives you the feeling that they must be a member school. So you wait for their big boss to distribute their basketball uniforms until the whistle blows to signal the opening of the event.
Then everyone takes the cue, each team forms a line and oh how cute these kids are in basketball jerseys, multi-thousand sneakers and all the peripherals these amateurs wear to feel good about themselves. Then you direct your gaze to the one team that wore no uniform. Ouch!
Parents, tournament organizers, on-lookers, groupies and haters start to ask, what school is this? Joining an inter-school basketball tournament, showing up without any uniform?
That is plain demoralizing for the students and parents are seeing these and you know what, they don't want their kids to be associated with such disorganized school.
2. Do a School Talent Show of Student in Public without Talents
You know what I mean with this. Imagine bystanders, invited guests and again, parents of the students watching the show. With all the billboards and tarpaulins shouting out your school's name while the sing and dance performance of your students were inspired by the likes of Sexbomb Dancers, Madonna, Britney Spears and all the dirty pop-culture you can think of. Students performing in the middle of a mall, wearing two-piece and dancing with someone what looks like a position straight out of book Kama Sutra.
To make what looks like a gross neglect on the part of the marketing people more serious, you invite a stand-up comedian whose main line of laugh stock is cross-dressing and sexual undertones.
And then, the school proudly shows off students who can't hit the right note, forgotten stanzas of spoken word performance and in-between, you have technical problems like malfunctioning microphones and master of ceremonies not knowing the singular-plural rules.
What do you get? A blockbuster of flops and boos.
3. Remove/Stop School Programs and Services without Announcement to Parents
Tell all the lies to parents to cover up the real reason for stopping a school program or services which the parents are really happy about. It's like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs if you do this. What happens is that the parents are the last ones to know about the changes in school.
For reasons known only to men of devilish nature, a school will run based on a micro-management albeit dictatorial, certain small schools survive this kind of a system.
One example:
A sports event during summer time is expected to be hot. Then come one teacher excusing herself from the heat, goes to the principal to ask permission to go home. Since we are in a micro-management system, either the principal says yes or no. For the teacher to get a nod, one must say all the negative things about the event.
The bull nods, then comes raging to the event and stops it.
Bravo!
Everyone stops, takes a ride home and laughs at the decision made by the bull. Meanwhile, parents complain about the stoppage and asks, ain't sports supposed to be tiring?
4. Start a Program that Do Not Cater to your Clients
A fact: Football, basketball, swimming, chess, taekwondo, volleyball, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton and athletics are some of the proven and tested sports program that truly invites parents to enroll their children in schools here in the Philippines.
Any other program introduced can only tell you two things, either you have a really, really fool-proof secret program known only to you or you simply want to kiss asses of your bosses.
The four stated ideas are proven ways to promote your schools into oblivion. Any other ideas you have in mind? Send them to me.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Young Knights Chess League
Metropolitan Chess Club, one of the Philippine's finest producer of chess players, announces:
The Metropolitan Chess Club announces the holding of Young Knights League on Dec. 29-30 at Eton Cyberpod Corinthian, Bldg. 1, located at the corner of EDSA and Ortigas Ave. across Robinson Galeria in Pasig, City.
The tourney is exclusively for those who attended the Milo Checkmate program since it was offered last 1990. The seven-round Swiss event is divided into three sections, namely: Open/Advance - for titled players and untitled players whose NCFP ratings are over 1800; Intermediate/Beginner - for players whose ratings are below 1800 or have taken Level 1 and above and Preparatory Section- for those who have have taken Prep 1-3.
At stake is a total pot of P90,000 with the champions receiving trophies and the following top prizes in their respective divisions: Open - P20,000; Intermediate/Beginner - P4,500 and Preparatory - P2,500.
Cash prizes are broken down to 15 places. Top performers in the U2000; U1900 and best lady will also receive cash prize. Other incentives include gift certificates for players who will score 4.0 points in the Open section and 3.5 points in the other divisions. Plaques for best scorers in Prep 1; Prep 2, Prep 3; Intermediate; Jr and Sr Beginners.
Registration is free for GMs and IMs. Entry fees are: Open section-FMs/NMs P150 and untitled - P300. Other divisions are P250. Interested parties may register through email at mccchess@yahoo.com. They must indicate the year they attended the clinic or contact MCC at 826-8560; 994-5199 or 0916-852-1069 or NM Deniel Causo at 0915-689-2359.
Chess Arbiter's Party 2010
Today at 9 in the morning, the Chess Arbiter's Association of the Philippines will have its year-end annual party with a Blitz and Fischer Random Chess Tournament happening at the Ramon Magsaysay-Cubao High School.
We are unable to join the fun today but I'd like to send my congratulations to every Juan and Juanas who have contributed to chess arbitration for the year 2010.
Have a blitzin' and randomly positioned fun today people!
We are unable to join the fun today but I'd like to send my congratulations to every Juan and Juanas who have contributed to chess arbitration for the year 2010.
Have a blitzin' and randomly positioned fun today people!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Results of the 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament
The 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament took place last Sunday, December 19, 2010 at the covered basketball court of Ramon Magsaysay Cubao High School. The crazy weather did not prevent the 83 players from joining the tournament.
WNM Jan Jodylin Fronda of De La Salle University, Charles Daniel Abuzo and Kevin Arquero tied on top with 6 points but Fronda claimed the champion's prize and Top Lady awards after the tie breaks were applied. Abuzo on second place and Top Under 14 while Arquero placed 3rd. Paul Robert Evangelista placed 4th on the over-all standings and claimed the Top Under 14 second place. Naranjo, Balingit, Corpin, Castro, Galan and Flores placed 5th to 6th respectively.
Stephen Rome Pangilinan of Bulacan claimed the Top Under 12 Award, Marie Antoniette San Diego of Cavite won the Top Female for the top Under 12 and 2nd place for the Top Under 12 while Michelle Yaon went home with Top Under 14 award.
For my wards, Shawn and Iyas, it was enough for them to gauge their current skills and went home with 3.5 points. Iyas won over Christian Nanola in the second round who was a finalist in the 2009 National Shell Active Chess Championship. For Shawn, it was a learning experience which he could not have gained had he not joined.
Asia's first, GM Eugene Torre gave the inspirational talk and there he emphasized the "learning experience" the players should focus on.
Congratulations to all the players and everyone who made the 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament successful!
Check out the 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament Final Standings.
Thank you to Mr. Gatz Luz for the results.
WNM Jan Jodylin Fronda of De La Salle University, Charles Daniel Abuzo and Kevin Arquero tied on top with 6 points but Fronda claimed the champion's prize and Top Lady awards after the tie breaks were applied. Abuzo on second place and Top Under 14 while Arquero placed 3rd. Paul Robert Evangelista placed 4th on the over-all standings and claimed the Top Under 14 second place. Naranjo, Balingit, Corpin, Castro, Galan and Flores placed 5th to 6th respectively.
Stephen Rome Pangilinan of Bulacan claimed the Top Under 12 Award, Marie Antoniette San Diego of Cavite won the Top Female for the top Under 12 and 2nd place for the Top Under 12 while Michelle Yaon went home with Top Under 14 award.
For my wards, Shawn and Iyas, it was enough for them to gauge their current skills and went home with 3.5 points. Iyas won over Christian Nanola in the second round who was a finalist in the 2009 National Shell Active Chess Championship. For Shawn, it was a learning experience which he could not have gained had he not joined.
Asia's first, GM Eugene Torre gave the inspirational talk and there he emphasized the "learning experience" the players should focus on.
Congratulations to all the players and everyone who made the 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament successful!
Check out the 8th Art Borjal Rapid Chess Tournament Final Standings.
Thank you to Mr. Gatz Luz for the results.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Observe and Talent will Show
Our post for today has to do with my article about my post some months ago called Observing the Developing Child: The Key to Understanding Children. SpEd t Majors from the St. Scholastica's College - Manila sent me emails and asked if I can give them some insights about observation and children through an email interview. Since it was the first week of December that I got these emails, I was really neck deep with all the end of the year reports and partying.
From Ms. Lizelle Pineda:
1. Is observing your students/patients important? How important it is as a PT/OT/teacher? What is the purpose of it?
2. How do you observe your students/patients behavior? What observational strategies/method do you use? what do you prefer most?
3. In your work, are you require to conduct a formal data/observation of your students behavior/performance? why or why not?4. What do you do with your data/information that you got after?
From Xan Cortes:
1.) What is the role of Observation in your career/field?
2.) What methods of gathering and recording data do you use in Observation?
3.) What techniques in Observation can you share to us future teachers?
There was an SMS I received from Ms. Shane Torres telling me she sent an email too but I didn't get any. Anyways, allow me to answer the questions stated although I believe my previous post was enough.
Observation is defined as the act or faculty of observing; the fact of being observed; the act of noting and recording something, such as a phenomenon, with instruments and the result or record of such notation: a meteorological observation. A comment or remark, an inference or a judgment that is acquired from or based on observing.
It is an act of noting and recording something.
Is it important?
It is important and useful. In fact you do not need to be a teacher, a physical therapist or an occupational therapist to understand its importance and usefulness. Humans have always "observed" to understand and help them in situations.
Prehistoric humans survived the harsh conditions of life because of observation. They need to eat and the only available food in the wild is a prey that's as wild as a predator. Observe and you will have food on your table.
In relationships, observation is the first tool to use before and during your interaction with one another.
You get to know people easily by observing. In fact, you only have to watch out for body language to give you an idea of who the person is or what he or she is up to.
Observation is a key tool in understanding people,students and a phenomena. I think it is an understatement to say that it is important.
Like the TV ads I saw last year sponsored by the Gifted and Talented Education Association of the Philippines (if I got that right), it said "Observe and Talent will Show."
Observation is everything!
From Ms. Lizelle Pineda:
1. Is observing your students/patients important? How important it is as a PT/OT/teacher? What is the purpose of it?
2. How do you observe your students/patients behavior? What observational strategies/method do you use? what do you prefer most?
3. In your work, are you require to conduct a formal data/observation of your students behavior/performance? why or why not?4. What do you do with your data/information that you got after?
From Xan Cortes:
1.) What is the role of Observation in your career/field?
2.) What methods of gathering and recording data do you use in Observation?
3.) What techniques in Observation can you share to us future teachers?
There was an SMS I received from Ms. Shane Torres telling me she sent an email too but I didn't get any. Anyways, allow me to answer the questions stated although I believe my previous post was enough.
Observation is defined as the act or faculty of observing; the fact of being observed; the act of noting and recording something, such as a phenomenon, with instruments and the result or record of such notation: a meteorological observation. A comment or remark, an inference or a judgment that is acquired from or based on observing.
It is an act of noting and recording something.
Is it important?
It is important and useful. In fact you do not need to be a teacher, a physical therapist or an occupational therapist to understand its importance and usefulness. Humans have always "observed" to understand and help them in situations.
Prehistoric humans survived the harsh conditions of life because of observation. They need to eat and the only available food in the wild is a prey that's as wild as a predator. Observe and you will have food on your table.
In relationships, observation is the first tool to use before and during your interaction with one another.
You get to know people easily by observing. In fact, you only have to watch out for body language to give you an idea of who the person is or what he or she is up to.
Observation is a key tool in understanding people,students and a phenomena. I think it is an understatement to say that it is important.
Like the TV ads I saw last year sponsored by the Gifted and Talented Education Association of the Philippines (if I got that right), it said "Observe and Talent will Show."
Observation is everything!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The Children's Library Project Closes
It's goodbye and it's painful!
After ten years of providing an avenue for bookworms and wanna-be bookworms, The Children's Library, a project of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, has officially closed last night. The remaining two branches, Imus and Novaliches, bid farewell to all it's patrons last night.
As their in-house storyteller in 2002-2003, I was given the opportunity to provide and facilitate sessions of storytelling and more. I joined puppet shows, book drives and inter-school contests as member and chairman of judge committee, truly a rare project that develops the creative side of anyone wishing to work with people. The Library has hosted thousands of activities that promotes reading, learning, environmental awareness and all sort of stuffs schools all over the world try to promote.
Spelling Bee, Speech and Oration, Mobile Reading Tour and Storytelling Contests are some of the major activities they've supported. With it's closure, the Library donated mosts of it's books and DVD's to three satellite libraries to neighboring towns of Imus.
In it's ten years, The Children's Library-Imus has become a part of most kids' malling routine. It has become a place for the youth to converge and read. A place that has offered them a chance to work as a volunteer for the younger ones, the eager ones. The Library has given us, it's patrons, an avenue to just be who we are, people who love to read. It has become a place for birthday parties, educational seminars and meeting place for everyone. The Children's Library has become an icon, a representation of love for learning, anywhere, anytime.
Last night, as I sat with my wife and kids watching the presentation prepared by Ana, Rod and Asia (staff of TCL-Imus), the nagging question in my head distracted me, "What will the people of Imus Cavite, patrons of the Robinsons Mall, do without the Library?"
Sadly, I don't have the answer, nor my wife or anyone I asked later on in the party.
Where do we go from here?
After ten years of providing an avenue for bookworms and wanna-be bookworms, The Children's Library, a project of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, has officially closed last night. The remaining two branches, Imus and Novaliches, bid farewell to all it's patrons last night.
Spelling Bee, Speech and Oration, Mobile Reading Tour and Storytelling Contests are some of the major activities they've supported. With it's closure, the Library donated mosts of it's books and DVD's to three satellite libraries to neighboring towns of Imus.
In it's ten years, The Children's Library-Imus has become a part of most kids' malling routine. It has become a place for the youth to converge and read. A place that has offered them a chance to work as a volunteer for the younger ones, the eager ones. The Library has given us, it's patrons, an avenue to just be who we are, people who love to read. It has become a place for birthday parties, educational seminars and meeting place for everyone. The Children's Library has become an icon, a representation of love for learning, anywhere, anytime.
Last night, as I sat with my wife and kids watching the presentation prepared by Ana, Rod and Asia (staff of TCL-Imus), the nagging question in my head distracted me, "What will the people of Imus Cavite, patrons of the Robinsons Mall, do without the Library?"
Sadly, I don't have the answer, nor my wife or anyone I asked later on in the party.
Where do we go from here?
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