To ensure good quality classrooms are built in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the region’s Education department (DepEd) has trained school heads on classroom construction management.
Dr. John Magno, DepEd-ARMM Secretary, said the school heads need to learn the basic concepts of construction as well as to get acquainted with building design and specifications of good quality construction materials.
“We want our school heads to learn all these skills so they could help us monitor the construction of classrooms in their respective schools,” Dr. Magno said.
He shared that the regional government has filed cases last year against contractors who performed poorly.
“The training of school heads in classroom construction management is one of our strategies to prevent contractors from short-changing the schoolchildren, the end-users of our classrooms,” he added.
To date, the department has trained 1,125 school heads as well as other stakeholders such as parents of schoolchildren and DepEd-ARMM division supervisors with the help of the Basic Education Assistance for Muslim Mindanao (BEAM-ARMM), a program funded by the Australian Government.
BEAM–ARMM was launched in 2012 aimed at contributing to the alleviation of poverty and the emergence of peace in ARMM through targeted investments in basic education.
The classroom construction management training for school heads is a landmark initiative introduced by the BEAM-ARMM Program and implemented by DepEd-ARMM starting in 2014.
The DepEd-ARMM chief said the training is unique to the region. “I haven’t heard of programs such as this in other regions,” he stressed. He said the department has also maximized the use of social media as a platform to monitor the progress of classroom construction in the region. (BPI/PIA-10)
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