4 research outputs found
Learning in the New Normal: Positive convergence of technology, quality, and sustainability
No full textAll of us are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused disruptions in education, healthcare, economy, and travels. Likewise, it is impacting the way we live, study, work, think, and interact. This perspectives provide how the education sector is affacted by the outbreak, and how the online learning has catapulted into the forefront due to the restriction of face-to-face classes.
Communication is very important and vital during this pandemic. We need to communicate clearly, positively, and effectively. In the digital platform of teaching and learning, the teacher needs to be creative and innovative in communicating, to get the interest and attention of the students, thus, make the learning process more engaging and interactive.
In this paper, the author writes the challenges for conducting online learning in the new normal that involving the three vital elements: Technology, Quality, and Sustainability
Servant leadership inventory: Its development, validation, and norming
No full textThis study is about the development, validation, and norming of a Servant-Leadership Inventory (SLI), to assess the servant-leadership practices of school leaders and their manifestations of the servant-leadership traits. It aims to find out the core factors which can measure servant-leadership in the school setting, and to establish the validity, reliability, and the norms of the instrument. The respondents of the study were 772 school leaders. Eleven (11) servant-leadership traits based on the theory of Robert Greenleaf were used as the hypothesized factors of the servant-leadership construct, namely: servant-first, listening, empathy, stewardship, commitment to growth of people, healing, foresight, conceptualization, awareness, persuasion, and community-building. The items were formulated based on the literature and a Delphi survey. The item review made by a panel of experts, established the content validity of the 247 accepted items out of the 300 initial item pool.The items were analyzed using item total correlation. Those items which did not reach the set criterion were eliminated. In the factor analysis, most of the items did not load under the factors that they were originally categorized
Analysis and prediction of prudential judgement and legal ability of educational managers in private secondary schools in Metro Manila
No full textThis research investigated the nature of prudential judgment and legal ability. An instrument was developed and validated, and used to assess and analyze the prudential judgment and legal ability of educational managers in private secondary schools in Metro Manila. The instrument evolved five core factors which were covered in the analysis and profiling: three on prudential judgment (goodwill, justice, peace and order) and two on legal ability (legalistic and non-legalistic). The study additionally yielded path models for predicting prudential judgment and legal ability. The findings of the study are breakthroughs in the educational managers’ professional development in school legislation and decision-making skills
The First International Seminar Poltekkes Kemenkes Palangka Raya: A Journey Full of Meaning
No full textPoltekkes Kemenkes Palangka Raya in collaboration with Indonesian Scholars' Alliance and Global Health Management Journal (GHMJ) successfully held the first international seminar on November 9, 2020. The seminar which took place online in the midst of the raging Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic raised the theme "The New Normal: Creating A Pleasant Virtual Communication”. Five speaker from four countries namely Prof Andrew J. Macnab (Canada), Sr. Merceditas O. Ang, SPC (Philippines), Eva Berthy Tallutondok, M.Sc. (Taiwan), Dr. Yeyentimalla (Poltekkes Kemenkes Palangka Raya, Indonesia), and Prof. Sri Suryawati (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) synergizes to convey ideas on how to create fun virtual communication actors. During the pandemic, we do not communicate face-to face, but instead switch to communication using technological devices and chating application. Adequate understanding is needed to be able to communicate with other people virtually where messages are conveyed well and at the same time happy.
The journey to the seminar in about four months presents a variety of emotions with negative and positive valences. For example, how to create a seminar participant and photo essays registration website with an inexperienced committee and communication is done virtually. In many ways we argued loudly. This level of difficulty is quite high. Virtual communication is different from face-to-face. We have to be more selective with words because intonation and gesture are absent in communication via WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. We optimize virtual communication right before we teach it to seminar attendees! This is so much fun! Pandemic may isolate our body, not our ideas.
The international seminar was held on Monday, November 9, 2020, to coincide with the 19th anniversary of the founding of the Poltekkes Kemenkes Palangka Raya. In accordance with the health protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic, the online committee from home and from their respective workspaces does not gather in one room. Seminar participants attended the Zoom room after previously registering through the website.
At the end of the registration period, 32 photo essays obtained. The details are 16 photo essays from the Department of Nursing, 9 photo essays from the Department of Midwifery, and 7 photo essays from the Department of Nutrition. On November 9, 2020, after the seminar was over, 9 photo essays winners from 9 categories were announced, and been published at the Global Health Management Journal as 2022's Special Edition, following the standard guidelines for Photo Essays
