Author: eos

The Vice President for the Loyola Schools with the Ateneo SALT Insitute opened the applications for textbook writing and development load for school year 2018-19.

The program encourages faculty of the Loyola Schools to write textbooks, to be published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press. The faculty are given corresponding load (1.5 to 6 units per semester) if their application is accepted.

The deadline for the submission of applications is on 2 February 2018 and the PDF of the call for applications is attached to this post.

Call for Applications_SY 2018-19 final

Accepted applicants will be notified after the consultations with experts, faculty presentations, and SALT deliberations.

The Team

The team of the SALT Institute, headed by Fr. Johnny Go SJ, is composed of Eos Trinidad of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, and Rita Atienza and Galvin Ngo of the Education Department.

Having served previously as the President of Xavier School for twelve years, Fr. Johnny Go has just been recently appointed the Director of the SALT Institute. He takes charge of its direction particularly in the creation of partnerships and fundraising. He recently obtained his Education doctorate from the University College London’s Institute of Education (University of London) and Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore National Institute of Education.

The former academic administrator of Assumption, San Lorenzo, Rita Atienza is an expert in Understanding by Design (UbD), having trained personally under UbD originator Grant Wiggins himself. A much sought-after teacher trainor, Rita heads the teacher education and professional learning arm of the SALT Institute. She is primarily in-charge of the Ateneo Turo Guro Summer Teacher Training Camp, which brings together the different departments to help offer professional learning for public and private school teachers.

A faculty and research mentor of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Eos Trinidad heads the research and outreach arm of the Institute. He is currently organizing the textbook development project that hopes to encourage and incentivize faculty to write educational materials or resources, and he is also arranging for the action research projects that will start in January 2018. Coming from his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, Eos has research interests in non-cognitive factors affecting education outcomes, and how teachers can promote more student-centered learning.

Also from the Education Department, Galvin Ngo heads the education technology and innovation arm of the SALT Institute. Formerly the head of the pioneering NEXT Ed Tech team of Xavier School, he is in-charge of workshops and seminars on the use of various technologies for teaching effectively, and is working on a coaching program for some Loyola Schools faculty. This program called Approaches to Learning with Technology aims teachers design, experiment and assess how to use technologies for learner-centered education.

The first semester of 2017 was marked by three workshops that highlight the three-fold strategic focus of the Ateneo SALT Institute: teacher training, education research, and education technology.

Last October 30, Rita Atienza led a workshop on Who is “doing the learning” in my classroom?, where she engaged instructors and professors from the Loyola Schools and the Ateneo Professional Schools on how they practice student-centered learning.

Atienza, who is SALT’s coordinator for teacher training, connected the concept of learner-centeredness with the Ignatian pedagogical paradigm, and the participants discussed how they can incorporate the workshop’s insights into their own classrooms.

On November 20, the Ateneo SALT Insititute with the Ateneo de Manila University Press organized a textbook writing seminar at the Faura Hall AVR. ADMU Press director Karina Bolasco discussed the process for writing a textbook with the university press.

She also gave helpful tips for the writing of the book manuscript, particularly how to engage with millenial readers.

Just a week after, on November 27, Galvin Ngo led a workshop and conversation on Flipped Learning with SALT director Fr. Johnny Go starting the discussion with ideas on student-centered learning.

Ngo, the institute’s coordinator for education technology, also introduced online programs and platforms that can help facilitate students’ learning.

The highlight of the workshop at the CTC Global Classroom is the Skype call with Adam Lolande, SJ, a Canadian Jesuit scholastic who helped introduce the concept of flipped learning with the participants.

All three workshops were also co-presented with the Loyola Schools’ Teacher Formation Institute.