LEARNING ACTION CELL

(LAC) MECHANISM

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 Objective:
• To provide with the essential information you
need to know about LACs, the kind of culture
and values a successful LAC has.

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 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9155:
GOVERNANCE OF BASIC EDUCATION ACT

The Department’s mandate to provide for

a continuing Professional Development

• Learning & Development (L&D) System

– a top down strategy
• Learning Action Cells- bottom-top
strategy

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 The Learning and Development (L&D System)

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT is . . .

• a subset of human resource management
• directly links with performance
management
• concerns with identifying “ where people
need to grow”
• NOT about generic calendar of activities;

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 Learning and Development is. . .

• NOT just about degree qualifications

• highlights “what they need to know in
order to achieve the desired results”
• how to develop people in order to meet
the strategic goals of the organization

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 Shift from T&D to L&D
• Interventions should be focused on learners
and not instructors.
• There are many ways to learn, and training is
just one.
• Learning happens continuously and all the
time, and does not stop when a training
event ends.

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 Shift from T&D to L&D
• Success of intervention is measured by result
(learning) and not just by the delivery (training)
• Everyone is responsible for learning; it is not the
accountability of just one unit
• Knowledge and skills should be shared freely.
• PRIME-HRM requirement
• Every employee knows best which direction to
take his/her learning

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 Shift from T&D to L&D
• L & D is a shared accountability
• DepEd shall provide access to L & D opportunities
• The ability to manage the processes of L & D
contributes to the enhancement of individual &
organizational performance
• The alignment of L & D interventions with
strategic goals & directions of the Department
is a key to accomplishing its goals

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 L & D System of DepEd is…
• An integrated approach for the provision of
continuing professional development for in-
service education personnel
• A unified approach that recognizes the 70-20-10
Model of L & D.
• 70 % - job related experiences
• 20% - interactions with others
• 10%- formal educational event

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 Purpose of L&D System
Provide the Central, Regional, Schools
Division and Schools with the tools
needed to promote and foster an
environment that values growth and
development opportunities for all its
personnel.

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 Purpose of L&D System
Offer an array of quality and
cost effective learning and
development opportunities
designed to increase individual
and organizational
effectiveness

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 L&D OUTCOMES &
IMPACT
ASSESSMENT

EVALUATION

System
Framework QATAME GUIDING
PRINCIPLES &
L&D
PLANNING
STANDARDS

DESIGNING AND
LEARNING
RESOURCE
DELIVERY PACKAGE
DEVELOPMENT

ENABLING MECHANISMS
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 What is that thing called LAC?

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 Learning Action Cell is a group of teachers
who engage in a collaborative learning
sessions to solve shared challenges
encountered in the school facilitated by the
school head or a designated LAC leader

DepEd Order No. 35, s. 2016

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 Why LACs?
• Knowledge is situated in teachers’
everyday experiences. The best way
to think about and learn from those
Teachers are experiences is to reflect on them
experts with peers and colleagues.
Teachers have the responsibility and
capacity to take charge of their own
learning.

Teachers learn • The learning process is enriched

best through when teachers share their
experiences with each other and
collaboration collaborate in creating solutions
and work that are contextualized to their own
based learning situation.

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 • While top –down approaches to
Mass training professional development are
have to be relevant, continuing school based
supported by learning is key to effective teacher
development. LAC is a powerful
localized, venue for teachers to reinforce
contextualized the knowledge they gain from
professional mass trainings, usually in the form
learning of TOT and explore ways these can
be applied in the classroom

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 Key aspects of a successful LAC?
• Teachers are responsible
Self- directed for their own learning and
learning directs what they want to
learn, how and when,
based on their needs

Ongoing
collaborative • A shared domain of
learning and / or professional interest
problem solving

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 Key aspects of a successful LAC?
Reflective • Teachers think about and
practice leading reflect on the teaching –
learning process.
to action and
self evaluation

• Teachers improve their

Collective capacities together as they go
competence through LACs by mentoring
development and coaching each other

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 Learning Action Cells Reflective Action Cycle

Reflect

Review Share

Implement Collaborate

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 Characteristics of an effective LAC?

Collaborative Collective

Openness to new
Reflective Dialogue
ideas
Mutual trust, respect Acceptance of
and support diversity of LAC
Member

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 LAC Process

1. In your group, list down the “must do”

before conducting the LAC
2. The group with the most number of “must
do’s” listed and the fastest shall be
declared the winner

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 Insights Sharing…
1. How did you find the activity?
2. What makes it easy or difficult?
3. Do you think the “must do’s” you listed are
helpful in conducting/implementing your
SLAC? Why?

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 Give yourself a point if you
answered…
Assessment of needs
Prioritization needs and translate into topics
or agenda
Formation of LAC Team(s)
Identification of appropriate intervention

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 Give yourself a point if you answered…
Scheduling of LAC Meetings
Setting-up/preparation of resources
Assignment of Work or task based on roles
Setting-up of LAC Implementation Norms
Preparation line-item budget
Writing of LAC Plan

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 LAC IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
 Assessment of Needs
 Prioritization of Topics or Agenda
 Formation of LAC Team
 Identification of Appropriate Intervention
 Scheduling of Meetings
 Setting Up of Resources
 Assignment of Work
 LAC Implementation Norms
 Preparing Line – Item Budget
 Writing of LAC Plan
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 LAC IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
 Assessment of Needs
 Prioritization of Topics or Agenda
 Formation of LAC Team
 Identification of Appropriate Intervention
 Scheduling of Meetings
 Setting Up of Resources
 Assignment of Work
 LAC Implementation Norms
 Preparing Line – Item Budget
 Writing of LAC Plan
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 Once the preparatory activities are
done…

Conduct LAC as
planned

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