Elementary Institute of Science

Instructional supervision is an activity done by the school heads, supervisors, and master teachers to help teachers improve their teaching skills and practices, as well as to enhance their ability and capacity in classroom delivery of lessons. When it comes to technical assistance and support from school heads, supervisors and master teachers, teachers have different experiences with it. Teachers meet different experiences regarding instructional supervision which affect their performance especially during classroom observation. This study explores what teachers think and feel about instructional supervision. Through the use of Google Forms, the researchers gathered data from 28 Teachers II and III of the different schools in Danglas District, Division of Abra, and used thematic analysis to identify common patterns and themes. After analyzing and identifying common patterns and themes, five main themes emerged namely: support and mentorship, constructive feedback and reflection, professional growth and development, instructional improvement and learner outcomes, and collaboration and partnership. Instructional Supervision plays a very important and significant role on the enhancement of teachers’ teaching skills and practices as well as on the performance of learners. Instructional Supervision is an important part of the teaching and learning process. To sustain quality education and for learners to achieve better learning outcomes, instructional supervision is a powerful tool to achieve it most especially when it is done to give support, it is done through constructive feedback, help teachers to grow, to improve instruction and learner outcomes, and if there is collaboration between the supervisors, school heads, master teachers, and teachers.

This study examined the role of parental engagement in the reading comprehension skills of Grade Three learners at Mohon Elementary School, Talisay City, Cebu. It focused on two areas of involvement: how parents encourage their children to read and how they model positive attitudes toward reading. The study used a descriptive correlational design with the Input–Process–Output (IPO) framework. Data were collected using an adapted parental involvement questionnaire and the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) to measure learners’ reading comprehension. Findings showed that parents were moderately involved in encouraging their children to read and highly involved in modeling positive attitudes toward reading. The results also revealed that demographic factors such as age, gender, educational attainment, income, and occupation were not significantly related to parental involvement, except for civil status, which showed a meaningful difference. However, the study found no sinificant relationship between the level of parental involvement and the learners’ reading comprehension performance. This suggests that while parents play an important role in supporting reading, other factors such as school instruction, learning resources, and individual learner characteristics may have stronger effects on comprehension. The study highlights the importance of strengthening both home and school efforts to improve children’s reading skills.

This study aims to develop a model to strengthen organizational resilience in the form of a constellation model of variables, along with its mathematical model, which was identified in the field through an initial preliminary survey and interviews with pre-selected informants. The unit of analysis is LP3I Polytechnic Jakarta, involving 30 lecturers as informants and interviews with 11 campus heads to determine the research constellation identified in the field. The study will also uncover strategies and methods to enhance organizational resilience. From this model, research hypotheses are derived, which will be tested using path analysis during the quantitative research phase. The research begins with interviews with informants considered competent and recognized as experts in providing the expected responses. Subsequently, data reduction, data coding, data presentation, data analysis, and conclusion drawing are conducted. The research is carried out at LP3I Polytechnic Jakarta during the period of December to January 2025. The study identified several variables that are presumed to have a positive and dominant influence on organizational resilience, namely visionary leadership, knowledge management, empowerment, professional commitment, and trust as an intervening variable

Background: Following reports of seven deaths among children with seizure and vomiting in the village of Sirohi, Rajasthan in April 2022, an epidemiological investigation was conducted. Methods: We established a hospital-based surveillance and did active case finding. A case was defined as vomiting and acute onset seizure or altered sensorium in <18 years old in Verafalli village. We conducted verbal autopsy and collected information on food, behaviours and health-seeking. Food samples, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood specimens were collected for testing biochemical, bacterial and viral markers. Environmental surveys were conducted around cases’ houses for presence of poisonous vegetation and potential vectors. Results: Among 11 cases (median age 7 years (2-16 years), females 27%), all had vomiting, new-onset seizure was present in 73% and altered sensorium in 27%; 33% were hospitalized. Case fatality was 64%. No new cases were identified after April 2022. Median time between symptom onset and death was 9 hours (2-54 hours). Among deaths 28% (2/7) were hospitalized. Two deaths had low weight-for-age, blood glucose <25 mg/dl (refractory hypoglycemia) and elevated liver enzymes (SGPT >8000 IU/L). Lab results for food and CSF samples were inconclusive for bacterial and viral markers. Toxicology screen of one death was negative for organophosphates. In 25% (2/8), tick pools tested positive for rickettsia. All cases had houses in vicinity or within fennel crop area. Conclusions: This acute health event cluster presenting as acute seizures with rapid progression among children in a rural setting was likely due to environmental toxin consumption; high fatality may result from uncorrected metabolic derangement. Aflatoxin is commonly known to infect fennel crops. We recommend early identification and case management to prioritize metabolic derangement correction; continued surveillance and a systematic epidemiological investigation to evaluate the role of environmental toxins particularly aflatoxin as the underlying etiology for similar events in future.

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