Page 15 - Annual Report 2019

INSTRUCTION
Fostering Growth of Country-side

Learning Excellence

Isabela State University on 2019 has continued to deliver academic inno-
vations as it endeavors to implement universal access to quality tertiary
education for all who have the motivation to become learned, skilled, “
productive, innovative, and valuable members of society.
The onset of K-12 program al- ately looked into a large-scale invest- ISU has been
lowed the University to stage its ment that would be paid-off with its
innovative operations. Curricular curricular offerings. Thanks to CHEd able to plot these
offerings were re-engineered in con- guidance, ISU and peer tertiary in-
formity to K-12 standards. ISU was stitutions have been able to initially strategies which
also in full swing of providing qual- align its instructional pedagogy with transformed its
ity learning experience among the outcomes-based education (OBE)
Senior High School students as it similar to K-12 prior to its implemen- overall
opened its Science, Technology, En- tation.
gineering and Mathematics (STEM) instructional
track. Aside from the K-12 adap- Academic Councils of 2019 fo- landscape that
tation, more competitive and de- cused on revisiting ISU’s curricular
mand-driven programs were crafted offerings to credit K-12 enhanced ed- would serve as a
in-line of emerging demands of in- ucation reforms. In the same manner,
dustries. More scholarships and ed- it has fashioned various curriculum model of
ucation grants were opened to help to be industry-based, assuring every country-side
more students in their studies. learner to be academically excellent
and professionally groomed in their learning
The University’s graduates are respective fields/specialty.
consistently and exceptionally in excellence
equal footing with national insti- It can be reflected hereof that the
tutions performing high in Nation- University is 100% operational when
al Board Examinations. And by the it comes to catering subjects and/
year, more and more were added to or courses for K-12 graduates- and
the hall of achievers- showcasing the now, ISUans. By First Semester of AY
pride of the Alma Matter. 2019-2020, the number of enrollees
in the University-system surged to
ISU’s academic development tra- about 26,905- all engaged with the
jectory came with the University’s comprehensive tertiary curricular
recognition of academic trends that offerings that were geared in light of
are responsive to local and nation- their respective tracks.
al needs, together with the concern In 2019, ISU was seen reinforc-
on quality of upgrade it has initially ing implementors of the Senior High
manifested. By looking on what it School (SHS) program. The Univer-
can do and how it would be done, sity began offering its SHS Curricu-
ISU has been able to plot these strat- lum with STEM strand in Echague,
egies which transformed its overall Roxas and Cabagan campuses.
instructional landscape that would The University viewed the need
serve as a model of country-side to prepare secondary students to
learning excellence. master the prerequisite skills need-
ed in professional courses for those
Re-engineering Curricula: who will prefer academic tracks for
K-12 and ISU STEM. The University has seen it fit
to add variable “A” to the track’s acro-
The inevitable effects of K-12 nym- which stands for “Agriculture”-
rippled-up to the Higher Education. given the University’s exemplary
Isabela State University has immedi- performance in the said field. ISU’s

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