In helping others help themselves, Goducate trains families, and companies, schools, and other organizations in leadership and team-building within their own context. Some of the training is done at the Goducate Training Center, but Goducate also has a mobile team that goes out to do the training. Goducate is in its second year of helping Iloilo Private Schools Educators Association (IPSEA) to train their student leaders.
IPSEA is an association of 17 elementary private schools in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. On Sept 10-11 Goducate ran the 7th IPSEA Pupils Leadership Summit. The event was held in 2 private resorts in Iloilo. 460 students from different municipalities in Iloilo province took part.
The theme of the summit was Marks of the Pupil’s Leadership in Governance. Lectures were made fun and easy by incorporating actions to definitions of the key words related to the lesson, and pupils were given creative materials to work on as well as fun-filled activities that would keep them energetic and build their critical thinking ability.
The lecturers and facilitators were the Goducate Training Center (GTC) trainees. Pupils were divided into eight smaller groups for the leadership enhancement sessions.
For the “ultimate challenge” pupils had to apply the lessons on planning, organizing, and leading in various activities that tested their physical and mental abilities. These activities enabled them to earn “money” with which they could buy materials to build a tower. The team that built the highest tower was the winning team.
The summit ended with the pupils being challenged to be good leaders in their schools and communities.
*Our guest writer this week is Joanna De Leon, a community development workerr