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Flagship1 CEDF-IT IT Teachers Academy Project Rationale The Strategic Planning Workshop among the Members of CEDF-IT Board of Trustees identified this flagship project as being the most critical of the four to be pursued by CEDF-IT for 2002-2003. Understandably so, because the project seeks to directly intervene at the classroom level in a two-pronged approach: first, by making certain the teachers become truly competent, i.e., "master IT instructors"; and second, by producing top-notch graduates from a pre-selected, special scholars class under the tutelage of the master IT instructors that the Academy would engender. Project Phases For every batch of twenty IT Instructors Phase 1 Semester one of the 3-semester (or 18-month) IT Master Instructors Course plus the required Individual Project to be undertaken within the succeeding semester or summer. Phase 2 Two (2) Student-Scholars Classes (with 30 students each class), to be taught by the assigned batch of IT instructors. The project consists of two phases for each batch of 20 IT teachers coming from the participating CEDF-IT member schools. As soon as these teachers complete their first semester of the three-semester or 18-month Master IT Instructors Course, two (2) classes of Student-Scholars Class (with 30 students per class) shall be organized, automatically enlisting these teachers as their faculty. These two phases shall be replicated for 4 batches of 20 IT teachers. Eventually and effectively, these 4 batches of 20 teachers, serving as faculty for the Student-Scholars Classes consisting of 30 student-scholars per class, shall teach and "graduate" two hundred forty (240) highly employable computer programmers! Since there are 160 IT teachers among the eight (8) CEDF-IT members-schools in Cebu City, the CEDF-IT Teachers Academy would enlist eight batches (160/8) of Master IT Instructors. CEDF-IT would like to be able to have 30 student-scholars or one Student-Scholars Class per participating member-schools. This means that the eight schools would be directly organizing, teaching, and "graduating" eight (8) Student-Scholars Classes with a total of two hundred forty student-scholars. Project Objectives and Outputs The long-term goal is to improve the quality and quantity of graduates through direct and focused intervention in the classroom level. The project's specific objectives are: To Produce 160 Master IT Instructors from the participating 8 CEDF-IT member-schools and To Graduate 240 student-scholars taught especially by the top 50% among the 160 Master IT Instructors. Project Benefits and Beneficiaries Immediate benefits to the IT teachers and student scholars be the confidence and pride that an academy was especially established, on the one hand to help upgrade teaching skills and, on the other hand, to give incentives to deserving students. In terms of numbers, impact or "multiplier effect" can be clearly appreciated with respect to the quality of graduates that these Master IT Instructors shall produce, starting with Student-Scholars Classes (as well as the other classes) that will be under their expert guidance. Finally, good quality graduates will result in increased productivity and less re-training costs for the industry, and, of course, higher incentives for the employees. Significant economic and social benefits shall definitely ensure. Project Implementation Scheme & Detailed Mechanics To achieve the above-enumerated objectives, CEDF-IT shall inaugurate the CEDF-IT Teachers Academy in late July or early August 2002. The Academy shall have its seat at the University of Cebu's Banilad Campus. CEDF-IT's arrangement with UC shall be covered by a MOA to be signed during the aforesaid inauguration activity. UC shall provide the venue--computer laboratory for 20 IT teachers at a time; for two batches per year. UC will also provide an area to serve as the CEDF-IT Teachers Academy faculty room and administrative office. Classes shall be on Saturdays and/or Sundays. The student-scholars on the other hand, shall be enrolled, equally spread out among the eight participating CEDF-IT member schools. The first batch of 20 IT teachers shall be enrolled in the Academy in time for the October 2002 - March 2003 semester. The first set of two Student-Scholars Classes shall be organized for the first semester of school year 2003-2004. The second batch of another 20 IT teachers, shall also be enrolled in the Academy for the first semester of SY 2003-2004. If the academy is able to simultaneously handle two batches of IT instructors per year, the 160 IT teachers will complete their Master IT Instructors Course within four (4) years. As regards the student-scholars will hopefully be graduating within four years from SY 2003-2004 when the first Student Scholars Classes would be organized. It is worthwhile pointing out that CHED has informally indicated the high probability for the Master IT Instructor Course to be accorded corresponding credits leading to a Masteral Degree in Computer Science Teaching. This will all depend on the individual member-schools applying for the required accreditation. For the teachers, the granting of masteral credits, and more so of a masteral degree, shall certainly serve as a major, added incentive. The initial course offering of the CEDF-IT Teachers Academy shall focus on developing Master IT Instructors in Software Engineering. The choice of focus is based on the feedback, through a series of in-depth discussion and analysis, from the Cebu industry partners of CEDF-IT. However, as more data from the HR Survey would become available, changes in focus, and therefore, in the course offering, curriculum, and even internal faculty of the academy shall follow suit. The 18-month Master Instructors Course Curriculum, plus the required Individual Project shall be as follows: 1st Quarter Principles of Programming 5 units (to include C refresher and JAVA) Technical Trends (by industry facilitator/lecturer 1 unit Teaching Methods 3 units 2nd Quarter Programming Language 3 units Computer System Organization 1 unit Data Structure & Algorithm Analysis 4 units 3rd Quarter Advance Programming 4 units Software Engineering & Proposal 3 units Professional Ethics 1 unit 4th Quarter Project 6 units Total: 31 units The graduates of the Master IT Instructors Course shall be able to competently teach:
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