Accreditor leads tutors into PAASCU ‘appraisal’

Both the Grade School and the High School faculty members were grouped by PAASCU areas during the workshop.

An experienced accreditor, a prolific author, and a Paulinian administrator herself, Mrs. Debbie Y. Grafil, former High School Academic Chair of St. Paul College-Pasig, guided the Grade School and High School faculty into a ‘mock’ evaluation of the different aspects being visited by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU) on June 29-30, 2012.

Picking up from the inputs of Mrs. Alma T. Dayag who oriented the faculty on the different aspects of PAASCU accreditation process just a week ahead, Grafil pointed out the nine areas of evaluation. These were purposes and objectives, faculty, instruction, laboratories, physical plant, student services, administration, and school and community.

She distributed evaluation prototype instruments on the nine areas where the faculty were asked to be grouped accordingly. Mr. Ernesto U. Guillermo, Jr., the High School Academic Chair, and Miss Imelda Baltazar, the Grade School Academic Chair, facilitated the grouping of the faculty.

The nine groups went through the different items and checked whether these were met using a likert scale.

She emphasized, however, that it was yet too soon to really evaluate the school with the instrument. She asked, instead, which among the items were vague or hardly understood by the different groups. She took time out to listen to the different groups on their concerns regarding the instruments.

Grafil promised to be back in August 3.

Sr. Bernadette Racadio, SPC, the school Directress and High School Principal, invited Grafil, her former HS Academic Chair when Sr. Bernadette was yet the HS Principal in SPC Pasig.

The workshop was sponsored by Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Sr. Bernadette Racadio, SPC, the school Directress and High School Principal, joins the faculty members in a souvenir shot together with Mrs. Debbie Y. Grafil.