National Competency - Based Standards for School Heads (NCBS-SH)

          The Department of Education in 2012 through the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) developed the NCBS-HS as the common standard for all school heads. the development was guided by the following basic principles.
       
          1. Function - Based. The competencies are based on school head functions as stated in R.A 9155, related laws and DepEd policies.

          2. Responsive. Competencies are applicable in any range of context or small school, city or rural school, culturally divergent
                                                      group.

3. coherent. These are clear and logical.

4. Valid. All performance indicators are research and experienced based.

CORE PRINCIPLE 

            School heads are competent, committed and accountable in providing access tro quality and relevant education for all through transformational leadership and high degree of professionalism.

NCBS-HS Domains and description 

Domain 1           School Leadership

Domain 2           Instructional Leadership 

Domain 3           Creating Student -Centered Learning Climate 

Domain 4           HR Management and Professionalism Development 

Domain 5           Parent Involvement and Community Partnership 

Domain 6           School Management and Operations 

Domain 7           Personal and Professional Attributes and Interpersonal Effectiveness 

Domain 2 Instructional Leadership 

competencies 

1. Assessment for learning / Indicators 

•  Manages the processes and procedure in monitoring student achievement 
• Ensure utilization of a range of assessment processes to assess student performance 
• Assess the effectiveness of curricular/co-curricular programs and/or instructional strategies 
• utilizes assessment results to improve learning.
• Creates and manage a school process to ensure students' progress is conveyed to students and parents/guardians 

2. Developing and Using Programs/Adopting Existing Programs 

• Develop/adopts research based and school programs 
• Assists in implementing an existing coherent and responsive school wide curriculum 
• Addresses deficiencies and sustain successes of current programs in collaboration with teachers and learners. 
• Develop culture of functional literacy. 

3. Implementing programs for Instructional Improvement 

• Manages the introduction of curriculum initiatives in line with DepEd policies (e.g. BEC, Madrasah) 
• works with teachers in curriculum review 
• Enriches curricular offerings based on local needs 
• Manages curriculum innovations and enrichment with the use of technology
• Organizes teams to champion instructional innovation programs towards curricular responsiveness. 

4. Instructional Supervision 

• Prepares and implements an instructional supervisory plan 
• conducts instructional supervision using appropriate strategy 
• Evaluates lesson plans as well as classroom and learning management.
• Provides in a collegial manner timely, accurate and specific feedback to teachers regarding their performance.
• provides expert technical assisstance and instructional support to teachers. 

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Reviewer for Qualifying Exam for Principals

Reviewer for Licensure for Teachers

          The Department of Education in 2012 through the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) developed the NCBS-HS as the common standard for all school heads. the development was guided by the following basic principles.
         
          1. Function - Based. The competencies are based on school head functions as stated in R.A 9155, related laws and DepEd policies.

          2. Responsive. Competencies are applicable in any range of context or small school, city or rural school, culturally divergent
                                                      group.

3. coherent. These are clear and logical.

4. Valid. All performance indicators are research and experienced based.

CORE PRINCIPLE 

            School heads are competent, committed and accountable in providing access tro quality and relevant education for all through transformational leadership and high degree of professionalism.

NCBS-HS Domains and description 

Domain 1           School Leadership

Domain 2           Instructional Leadership 

Domain 3           Creating Student -Centered Learning Climate 

Domain 4           HR Management and Professionalism Development 

Domain 5           Parent Involvement and Community Partnership 

Domain 6           School Management and Operations 

Domain 7           Personal and Professional Attributes and Interpersonal Effectiveness 

Domain 2 Instructional Leadership 

competencies 

1. Assessment for learning / Indicators 

•  Manages the processes and procedure in monitoring student achievement 
• Ensure utilization of a range of assessment processes to assess student performance 
• Assess the effectiveness of curricular/co-curricular programs and/or instructional strategies 
• utilizes assessment results to improve learning.
• Creates and manage a school process to ensure students' progress is conveyed to students and parents/guardians 

2. Developing and Using Programs/Adopting Existing Programs 

• Develop/adopts research based and school programs 
• Assists in implementing an existing coherent and responsive school wide curriculum 
• Addresses deficiencies and sustain successes of current programs in collaboration with teachers and learners. 
• Develop culture of functional literacy. 

3. Implementing programs for Instructional Improvement 

• Manages the introduction of curriculum initiatives in line with DepEd policies (e.g. BEC, Madrasah) 
• works with teachers in curriculum review 
• Enriches curricular offerings based on local needs 
• Manages curriculum innovations and enrichment with the use of technology
• Organizes teams to champion instructional innovation programs towards curricular responsiveness. 

4. Instructional Supervision 

• Prepares and implements an instructional supervisory plan 
• conducts instructional supervision using appropriate strategy 
• Evaluates lesson plans as well as classroom and learning management.
• Provides in a collegial manner timely, accurate and specific feedback to teachers regarding their performance.
• provides expert technical assisstance and instructional support to teachers. 

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TEACHER'S WORK: Qualifying Exam for School Heads 2018

TEACHER'S WORK: Qualifying Exam for School Heads 2018: Research-Based Practices of Effective Schools 1. The school head is a dynamic leader who      a. Demonstrates personal improvement and   ...

Qualifying Exam for School Heads 2018

Research-Based Practices of Effective Schools

1. The school head is a dynamic leader who
     a. Demonstrates personal improvement and
          Encourages staff development;
     b. Has the ability to connect with people and
          Pursue teamwork;
     c. Assumes responsibility for action to achieve
          The school's mission; and
     d. Creates an environment of empowerment
          Or sharing his/her powers with others.

2. The school has a strong community partner
Ship. The parents and community are engaged in making decisions and various activities for the benefit and welfare of their children in the planning and implementation of the school improvement plant and Annual Improvement Plan.

3. The school has a clear mission and high expectation for pupils and teachers. Clear and explicit school vision, mission, goals and targets are shared by teachers and students. Consequently, there are high expectation for all pupils and teachers who are given adequate instructional supervision through classroom observation by the school head.

4. The school ensures optimal utilization of resources and provides facilities for increasing academic achievement. Adequate facilities like library or learning resource center, science center, conference hall and othersfor increasing personnel and pupil productivity are offered by the school. The school also ensures the effective utilization of these facilities to expand access to learning.

5. The school practices meaningful assessment and reporting of pupil progress. In order to come up with information-based and data- driven decision, the schools use assessment results for placement, and for diagnostic and summative puroses. Meetings with parents are held after every grading period to discuss pupil progress and development.

6. The school has a strong sense of responsibility. The school head, teachet and community stakeholder assume responsibility for school improvement and students outcomes.

Sample Questions:
1. The move in schools is toward transformational leadership. Which characterizes transformational leadership?
     I.   Empowers those who participate in the
           process
     II.  Intrisically motivates people to improve
           their practice
     III. Help staff develop and maintain a colla-
           borative, professional school culture.
           a. I and II
           b. I and III
           c. II and III
           d. I, II and III

2. If your management theory is Theory x, you will tend to be ________ in practice?
a. democratic
b. laissez faire
c. autocratic
d. consultative

3. If your management theory is Theory y, you believe your followers _______.
I.  are dependable
II. can be trusted
III. are self-motivatef
             a. I, II and III
             b. II and III
             c. I and II
             d. I and III

4. What comes along with School-Based Management?
I.    Decentralized decision -making
II.   Distribution of responsibilities
III.  Schools reflecting local priorities and values
IV.  Complete autonomy of schools and communities.
               a. I and II
               b. I, II and III
               c. II and III
               d. I, II, III and IV

5. Which explain ACCESS principle on leadership and governance?
I.    Solo leadership of school head
II.   Leadership provides school direction to
       make education relevant and responsive to
       community context
III.  A network of leadership
IV.   Building and nourishing sustainable
        partnership
                  a. II, III, IV
                  b. I, III, IV
                  c. I, II and III
                  d. I, II, IV

Reference: Becoming a 21st Century Educational
                     Leader Avelina T. Llagas, Ed.D.
                                   Brenda B. Corpuz, Ph.D.
                                   Purita P. Bilbao, Ed. D.

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LET Reviewer (Elementary Science)

Read the sentences carefully then choose the letter of the correct answer

1. When the sperm of the male parents unites with the egg cell of the female parent, __________occurs.

a. respiration
b. fertilization
c. digestion
d. circulation

2. ______ is a sperm duct or tube which serve as storage for sperms cell produced by the testicles.

a. scrotum
b. vas deferens
c. prostate glaands
d. epididymis

3. when the fertilized egg does not make its way to the uterus, pregnancy may develop  in one of the fallopian tube. This pregnancy  is called _______

a. ectopic pregnancy
b. fallopian pregnancy
c. outside pregnancy
d. inverted pregnancy

4. __________ are a pair of bean - shaped organs found behinds the intestines and just above the waist line, which contains more than a million of nephrons.

a. kidneys
b. ureter
c. urinary bladder
d. urethra

5. Below are the causes of the destruction of coral reefs except one.Which one is it?

a. excessive siltation
b. muro ami fishing
c. enforcing no fishing zone
d. the use of cyanide

6. The ________________ usually have a shell either inside or outside their soft bodies. They have jointed legs for walking and swimming.

a. arthropoda
b. echinodermata
c. annelida
d. molluska

7. Which of the group of animals belongs to reptile?

a. snake, crocodile and turtle
b. cow, horse and leopard
c.ostrich, parrot and  maya
d. milkfish, mudfish and tanique

8. It is deep sleep that last for a longtime generally throughout winter.

a. mimicry
b. hibernation
c. estivation
d. protective covering

9. ________ is the process of food making in green plants.

a. glucose
b.photosynthesis
c. chlorophyll
d. chloroplast

10. Why is chlorophyll important in the process of photosynthesis?

a. because it releases energy from the sun
b. because it gets water from the roots.
c. because it produces oxygen.
d. because it traps light energy from the sun

11. plants adapts to intense light like sunflowers, legumes, and grass. they are called ______.

a. photophillic
b. photopholic
c. parasites
d.saprophytes

12. where does the process of food making in green plants occurs?

a. in the roots
b. in the leaves
c.in the fruits
d. in the flowers

13. What kind of consumer is a snake eating chicken?

a. producer
b. primary consumer
c. secondary consumer
d. tertiary consumer

14. How does ampalaya protect itself from enemies?

a. by means of thorns
b. by means of thin, elongated leaves
c. by means of  its unpleasant odors
d. by means of bitter taste

15. Some plants are good sources of medicines. Lagundi is proven to cure __________

a. burns and baldness
b. colds and coughs
c. skin disease
d. heart ailment

16. when water turns to gas when it absorbs enough heat, the process called______.

a. solidification
b.liquification
c. evaporation
d. sublimation

17. which does not affect physical change?

a. cutting
b. pounding
c. rusting
d. grating

18. which is a example of Physical change?

a. onion chopped into small pieces
b. ripening of fruits
c. rusting of iron nails
d.rotten fruits

19.

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Reviewer for LET

LITERATURE

1.      The novel by Victor Hugo which serves as the vehicle for his social ideas; Mon are essentially equal; the poor are crushed by the prejudices of organized society; etc. is

a.      The Hunchback of Notredame

b.      Songs of the Orient

c.       Les Miserable

d.      The Count of Monte Cristo

2.      The story written by Washington Irving, which tells of a man who slept for twenty years while hunting on the Catskill Mountain in

a.      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

b.      Rip Van Winkle

c.       The Cask of Amontillado

d.      The Wooden Horse

3.      The Epic of England

a.      Le Morte de Arthur

b.      Beowulf

c.       Canterburry Tales

d.      Robin Hood

4.      The Epic of France is a

a.      Song of Roland

b.      Les Miserables

c.       The Count of Monte Cristo

d.      Autumn Leaves

5.      The Epic of Spain

a.      Song of Roland

b.      Beowulf

c.       Don Quixote de la Mancha 

d.      El Cid

6.      The Epic of Rome is

a.      Odyssey

b.      Aeneid

c.       Iliad

d.      Divine Comedy

7.      The Epic of Germany

a.      The Song of Roland

b.      Nibelungenlied

c.       Beowulf

d.      Mein Kamft

8.      The World’s Longest Epic

a.      Ramayana

b.      Iliad

c.       Odyssey

d.      Mahabharata

9.      The epic of the Philippines

a.      Aligayon

b.      Biagni Lam-ang

c.       Handiong

d.      Bantugan

10.  The Colombian writer of the Novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” who popularized magical realism

a.      Pablo Neruda

b.      Artemio Cruz

c.       Gabriel Garcia Marquez

d.      Cesar Fuentes

11.  The Spanish novel which mocks chivalry and examines different appearances of reality

a.      El cid

b.      Don Quixote de la Mancha

c.       Cosa Nostra

d.      Los Perros

12.  A NOVEL ORIGINATED IN Spain; one which present society through the eyes of Rogue and usually includes biting satire or moral commentary

a.      Social novel

b.      Satirical novel

c.       Picaresque novel

d.      Postmodern novel

13.  Dante Alighieri’s most noted work which was an outgrowth of the political strife of his period and his great love for Beatrice whom he worshipped from a distance.

a.      Decameron

b.      Divine Comedy

c.       Federogo’s Falcon

d.      Swiss Family Robinson

14.  Daniel Defoe’s novel about the life of a civilized man’s survival on an island with primitive resources.

a.      Robinson Crusoe

b.      Gulliver’s Travels

c.       Castaway

d.      Swiss Family Robinson

15.  The Bard from avon and England’s greatest dramatist

a.      Christopher Marlowe

b.      Sir Walter Releigh

c.       William Shakespeare

d.      Lord Alfred Tennyson

16.  The Epic of Persia

a.      Epic of Gilgamesh

b.      Arabian Nights

c.       Shah Namah

d.      Sinbad the Sailor

17.  The Father of Greek Tragedy

a.      Euripides

b.      Sophocles

c.       Aristophanes

d.      Aeschylus

18.  The Italian writer who wrote the political treatise “ The Prince”

a.      Francesco Petrach

b.      Niccolo Machiavelli

c.       Giovanni Boccaccio

d.      Dante Alighieri

19.  The Novel of Revenge by Alexander Dumas from which Jose Rizal Patterned his “El Filibusterismo”

a.      The Count of Monte Cristo

b.      Les Miserables

c.       Hayden  Christenson

d.      Hans Christian Andersen

20.  The Danish poet, novelist, and dramatist who told fairy tales that fascinated the world

a.      Leo Tolstoy

b.      Anton Chekov

c.       Hayden Christensen

d.      Hans Christian Andersen

21.  Leo Tolstoy’s novel that openly defies the established code of marriage and explores the powers love

a.      War and Peace

b.      Anna Karenina

c.       God sees the truth but waits

d.      The Angels among us

22.  The English poet and critic who proposed a literary canon by saying “Literature is the best that is ever thought of and written”

a.      Matthew Arnold

b.      Terry Eagleton

c.       Wilfred Owen

d.      T. S. Elliot

23.  The English Writer who popularized epigrams in his essays

a.      Alexander Pope

b.      John Donne

c.       Sir Francis Bacon

d.      Sir Walter  Leigh

24.  The Irish Dramatist who popularized the “theatre of the absurd” with his “waiting for Godot”

a.      Eugene O Neill

b.      Joseph Conrad

c.       Arthur Miller

d.      Samuel Beckett

25.  A group of stories written by Chancer, presumably from those told by people on a a pilgrimage while resting at Tabard Inn

a.      General Prologue

b.      Canterbury Tales

c.       Troilus and Criseyde

d.      Romance of the Rose

26.  A psychological novel by Feodor Dostoevsky which combines his interests in the multiple personality, the obscure and continued motivations of human action with his other chief theme-moral redemption through suffering

a.      Crime and Punishment

b.      The Brothers Karamasov

c.       The House of the Dead

d.      Eve

27.  The English Novelist who wrote poverty in most of his works as “David Copperfield,” Oliver Twist.”

a.      Mark Twain

b.      Emily Bronte

c.       Charles Dickens

d.      Thomas Hardy

28.  The pen name of Mary Ann Evans who wrote “Adam Bede,” Silas Marner,” the Mill on the Floss,” etc..

a.      T. S. Elliot

b.      Jane Eyre

c.       Virginia Woolf

d.      George Eliot

29.  The American born writer who later became a naturalized Englishman who posited the idea of “Objective correlative”  in writing poetry

a.      George Eliot

b.      T. S. Elliot

c.       Edmund Spenser

d.      Robert Browning

30.  The Greek Philosopher who wanted literature to be banished from the state since it distracts the citizen from performing his duties to the state.

a.      Aristotle

b.      Socrates

c.       Plato

d.      Pythagoras

31.  Aristotle’s work that rescued literature by refuting Plato’s argument against it

a.      Poetics

b.      The Republic

c.       The Prince

d.      Politics

32.  A collection of tales in Arabic said to have been told by Scherezade to save her life

a.      Epic of Gilgamesh

b.      The Book of the Dead

c.       Arabian Nights

d.      The Rubaiyat

33.  The Epic of Egypt

a.      Epic of Gilgamesh

b.      The book of the Dead

c.       Arabian Nights

d.      Ali Baba

34.  Dubbed as “the children’s poet”

a.      Ralf Waldo Emerson

b.      Carl Sandburg

c.       Walt Whitman

d.      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

35.  The poem by Edwin Markham that touches on agrarian problem and inspired by a painting depicting a farmer in hard labor

a.      Invictus

b.      The Man with the Hole

c.       Chicago

d.      Leaves of Grass

36.  A pl;ay by Christo[pher Marlowe about a man who sold his soul for wealth, power and glory

a.      Jabberwocky

b.      All for Love

c.       The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus

d.      A Doll’s House

37.  The pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the witer of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “ through the Looking Glass.”

a.      Charles Dickens

b.      Mark Twain

c.       Henry

d.      Lewis Caroll

38.  The Novel written by George Orwell which tells of a big Brother constantly monitoring his subjects and is an indictment against a totalitarian society

a.      1984

b.      Animal Farm

c.       The Sun also Rises

d.      The Grapes of Wrath

39.  Mark Twain’s Novel which presents a story indicting the idea of royalty with humanitarian viewpoints though the eys of an uneducated backwoods boy

a.      A. the adventures of Tom Sawyer

b.      The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c.       Corrupted Handleyburg

d.      The Prince and Pauper

40.  The master of the short story in French Literature

a.      Gustave Flaubert

b.      Emile Zola

c.       Guy de Maupassant

d.      Jean Jacques Rousseau

41.  The novel for which Herman Melville is remembered today. It is said to be partly autobiographical as it tells of the whaling experiences of the central character, which mirrors Melville’s own

a.      The Miser

b.      A Second Defense

c.       Treasure Island

d.      Moby Dick

42.  The French writer who wrote and published the first collection of prose called “Essais”

a.      Michel de Montaigne

b.      Jean Jacques Rousseau

c.       Jacques Derrida

d.      Michael Foucault

43.  “The Tale of Genji” reputed to be the world’s first real novel was written by

a.      Daniel Defoe

b.      Yukio Mishima

c.       Lady ShikibuMurasaki

d.      Kazuo Ishiguro

44.  The first Asian to win the much coveted Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) he was cited for “Gitanjali”

a.      Kazuo Ishiguro

b.      Rabindranath Tagore

c.       Yasunari Kawabata

d.      Wole Soyinka

45.  An extended lyric poem showing an exalted emotion and dealing in a dignified tone with a serious theme.

a.      Song

b.      Eulogy

c.       Elegy

d.      Ode

46.  Literally meaning “Quantrains,” this collection of verses by Omar Khayyam, a noted Persian poet, Mathematician and Philosopher, tells of epicurean delight in the sensous joys of the world intertwined with a prevailing sense of melancholy

a.      Rubaiyat

b.      Sonnets from the Portuguese

c.       Leaves of Grass

d.      Songs Offerings

47.  Literally meaning “Five Headings” in Sanskrit, this a collection of fables in Sanskrit

a.      Bhagavad-Gita

b.      Panchatantra

c.       Upanishads

d.      Subhasitanatnakosa

48.  The Novel by Boris Pasternak for which he was cited by the Nobel committee in 1958. It is set against a background of Russian history and places emphasis on individual integrity, compassion, spiritual understanding and exposes and exposes the cruelty of revolution

a.      War and peace

b.      The Brothers Karamasov

c.       Notes from the Underground

d.      Doctor Shivago

49.  If Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was inspired by his love for Beatrice, Petrarch’s sonnet were inspired by his love for

a.      Maria

b.      Laura

c.       Ana

d.      Celia

50.  According to Plato, Literature is

a.      An exact representation of reality

b.      Twice removed from reality

c.       A full rendition of what is

d.      Thrice removed from reality

51.  A poem which uses the rustic rural life for its setting and shepherds as characters but actually presents a clever, sophisticated point of view

a.      Pastoral poem

b.      Ode

c.       Sonnet

d.      Lyric

52.  One of the Greek Mytology’s greatest heroes, he is son of Zeus by Danae and slayer of Medusa

a.      Mercury

b.      Ares

c.       Perseus

d.      Hercules

53.  The daughter of Demeter (ceres) abducted and made wife by hades, the God of the underworld

a.      Diana

b.      Persephone

c.       Helen

d.      Artemis

54.  Henry Jame’s novel which tells how a free-spirited American girl with a quality of innocence rises above the civilized complexities of the Europeans despite a tragic error she committed

a.      Haide

b.      Portrait of the Artist

c.       Madame Bovary

d.      Portrait of a Lady

55.  Jane Austen’s novel which is widely considered as a “comedy of manners” in which  Austen pokes fun at the human frailties of her characters such as stupidity and servility, snobbery, etc..

a.      Pride and Prejudice

b.      June Eyre

c.       Wuthering Heights

d.      Tess of the D’Urbervilles