WHILE many 15-year-old Filipinos have a tough time studying, a lot much less understanding easy essay construction because the figures within the Group for Financial Cooperation and Improvement Program for Worldwide Scholar Evaluation 2018 outcomes indicated, 5-year-old kindergarten pupil Jethro (not his actual title) reads the directions to his classmates as they experiment with water and cleaning soap to make bubbles at Hope Christian Excessive Faculty (HCHS).

The primary Filipino Chinese language Christian academy to be accredited for and implement the Worldwide Baccalaureate Main Years Program (IB PYP), HCHS provides an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum framework that builds conceptual understanding.

“It’s a student-centered strategy to training for kids ages 3 to 12 that displays one of the best of instructional analysis, thought management and expertise derived from IB World Faculty. PYP has developed to turn into a world chief in future-focused training. It’s an instance of finest instructional follow globally, responding to the challenges and alternatives dealing with younger college students in our quickly altering world,” Worldwide Baccalaureate states in its web site.

Apart from PYP, IB studying additionally has the Center Years Program (MYP) for college students ages 11 to 16, and the IB Diploma Program and the IB Profession-related Program for college students ages 15 to 19 — inside which HCHS implements the content material requirements and competencies that the Division of Training mandates.

Established in 1946 by the United Evangelical Church of the Philippines on Benavidez Road, Sta. Cruz, Manila, HCHS was based to nurture younger Filipino Chinese language youngsters from the ravages of World Battle 2. It developed into a number one studying neighborhood, producing many stalwarts within the area of enterprise and academe, together with physicist and Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco.

A lot of its graduates went on to complete faculty with distinction comparable to Jillian Rae Chua (magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy, De La Salle College), Trishia Mae So (magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science in Journey Administration, College of Santo Tomas), Julleanne Might Ang (magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science in Public Well being, College of the Philippines), Jan Kieffer Tagle (magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, UST), and Lester Lloyd Vinz Ngo (cum laude, UP Faculty of Medication).

Nonetheless, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Michael Chenglay mentioned that HCHS couldn’t simply be for the Filipino Chinese language neighborhood anymore.

“We now dwell in a world neighborhood, in a borderless society. We have to lengthen past the confines of our speedy neighborhood, the Filipino Chinese language neighborhood, and convey the varsity even past the nationwide into the worldwide degree and requirements set by IB,” he mentioned.

“Being the primary Filipino Chinese language Christian Excessive Faculty to turn into an IB PYP program, we’re dedicated to supply high quality Christian training related to the modifications and challenges of the twenty first century, all for the glory of God,” Hope Christian Excessive Faculty principal Dr. Angeline Tan-Tiller mentioned.

“We’re repeatedly constructing on what college students have completed within the PYP program within the elementary grade ranges into highschool. As college students drive the instruction with their very own inquiry questions on tutorial matters, they’ve turn into extra inquisitive, articulate, collaborative, essential of their considering, inventive, and progressive — all of the qualities that make their training related within the twenty first century. And with our strengthened Maker’s House program, our built-in applications — from Humanities to Science, Expertise, Engineering, Arithmetic (STEM) — run by means of from preschool to Grade 12,” she defined.

The Maker’s House — additionally known as the junk store as all varieties of scraps are discovered there as supplies to create or construct different purposeful gadgets — is headed by Kim Samson, who left an in any other case fulfilling profession within the company world to assist hone the younger minds of HCHS college students who’re seen to be the scientists and engineers of tomorrow, in 15 to 30 years from now.

Curriculum and Instruction marketing consultant Roman Gania, who taught at Worldwide Faculty Manila for a very long time, and completed faculty at Brigham Younger College-Utah and took his grasp’s on the California State College, Northridge, mentioned that with the Okay to 12 Humanities and STEM Design program in place, college students could make connections amongst disciplines and assemble their very own understanding of significant cross-cutting ideas throughout disciplines.

“We have been accredited as IB PYP World Faculty in 2020 and presently we’re getting ready for IB MYP program, striving to fulfill greater than their minimal necessities when it comes to the MYP interdisciplinary curriculum and inquiry-based, constructivist instruction,” he mentioned.

“College students consider what they’re studying in science and math, apply this data in ICT to create progressive options to real-world issues, whereas on the identical time utilizing their expertise honed within the humanities and thus turning into extra caring and socially accountable members of society,” he added.

“For instance, through the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, college students explored the historical past of pandemic over the centuries and the way it affected the lives of individuals in literary and non-literary accounts, studied and computed the expansion of micro organism, graphed this progress, and created a prototype of contact-tracing in ICT. That is an thrilling journey, one which we hope will make their studying related and convey the varsity to a global degree, corresponding to any IB World Faculty anyplace on the earth,” Gania shared.