City DepEd tweaks curriculum to

let culinary medicine integration

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb 14 (PIA)—Reddish pink camote-top lemonade, blue ternatea, pancit kalabasa: name it and soon, high school kids in Tagbilaran City will be your food and beverage experts.

This as the City Division of the Department of Education (City DepED) and the Agricultural Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture (DA-ATI) formalizes through a Memorandum of Agreement the collaboration to enhance and indigenize the K to 12 Basic Education Program in the Senior High School to ensure graduates would be employable if not ready for entrepreneurship and higher learning.

City DepEd’s Superintendent Dr. Joseph Irwin Lagura signed the MOA for the City while Agricultural Training Institute -7 Regional Director Dr. Carolyn Daguio represented the agriculture agency in the MOA.

There witnessing the MOA signing were Dr. Elisea dela Torre of the City DepED’s Curriculum Implementation Division (CID) and City DepED TVL/TLE Education Supervisor Joseph Barrete with ATI-7’s Administrative Officer Lourdino Sale witnessed the ceremony held at the Coffee shop of the Panda tea Gardens and Suites, February 12.

The MOA between two government agencies focus on contextualizing the Technical Vocational Livelihood/ Technical Livelihood Education Curriculum specifically in cookery, bread and pastry, Food and Beverage and the integration of Culinary Medicine through partnerships with ATI and its partner Remnant Institute or Alternative Medicine.    

The MOA makes both parties responsible in creating a joint technical working group in making the groundwork, develop learning competencies in the mentioned areas after a 3-day Seminar Workshop, organize a monitoring and evaluation team and operationalize as well as implement the program.

For the DepED in the agreement, aside from them naming a focal person from the CID, to spearhead the project, they also prepare the matrix of activities of the project and share it to ATI, including its facilities and manpower resources.

The DePED shall also lead the review the workshop outputs and materials in the project implementation, facilitate implementation of the enhanced TLE TVL curriculum, monitor and asses the project implementation and prepare narrative reports in the program implementation for the DepED Regional Office.

For ATI-7, they too will assign a focal person to compose the joint TWG to ensure program implementation, provide the needed inputs in the write-shop to the pool of writers enhancing the TLE TVL Curriculum, make their facilities available for the City DepED educational tours, seminars, workshops, give feedback on project implementation in time.      

According to Education Supervisor Barrete, the enhanced curriculum development and implementation is a right follow on to the contextualized courses that the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan in the elementary is now implementing in city elementary schools in line with K to 12.

“We are teaching students in the agriculture strand to do Pulayan sa Paaralan, Tilapyahan sa Paaralan and these are also mirrored in their homes,“ Barrete pointed out.

In the junior high schools, these spiral into organic food production through Edible landscaping and Urban Gardening with ATI, but then, these food sometimes lay to waste because very few know how to process these mineral rich nutritious food into the right delectable table setting for people to start eating,” Barrete continued on.

From the integration, ATI Director Daquio is optimistic that in no time at all, Tagbilaran City restaurants would be serving more beverages like herbal concoctions and other exotics.  (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

MAINSTREAMING ORGANIC FOOD IN BEVERAGES. The DA-ATI through Dr Carolyn Daquio and City DepED through Dr Joseph Irwin Lagura sign the MOA for the enhancement, indigenization and contextualization of the TLE curriculum to include Culinary Medicine so continuity can be achieved as after students have produced organic food, these are prepared into your standard table fare with extra nutritional value. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

CURRICULUM CONTEXTUALIZATION. Dr Carolyn Mae Daquio explains to City DepEds Curriculum Implementation Division chief Elisea Dela Torre the contesnt of the MOA as City DepEd Superintendent Dr Joseph Irwin Lagura (partly hidden) and Lourdino Sale look on, during the MOA signing at the Panda tea Garden and Suites Coffee shop, Feb 12. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)