Inosloban-Marawoy NHS is facing the possibility of having increase in its population yearly.  Just like this year, the enrolment increased by ____% from the last year. Side by side with this instance, 20 new teachers were also deployed to our school.

For this reason, Dr. Felipa A. Morada, the principal came up with an intervention of maximizing the resources our school has despite of the continuous increase in our students’ population.  The idea of having shifting of classes was taken into consideration to augment the said problem with the assurance of not compromising the quality of instruction.

After asking for a permit from the school’s division office, all the plans were laid and carefully analyzed and aligned.  The PTA officers, members of the sanggunian and other stakeholders were called for a consultative meeting.  Then all the information were disseminated across all our stakeholders including the staff, teachers, parents and the students.

Due to an increase in enrolment, Inosloban-Marawoy National High School implemented the shifting of classes for this school year.

A two-shift system involves one class taking the morning session, with the next class occupying the afternoon one. This maximizes the use of a classroom since more students can use it in one day.

Towards the eight - month of implementation, the following points are observed across the different areas of school governance:  It is then understood that along with the positive points observed, there are also some negative counter back.

Student Development:

The teacher – student ratio of 1:45 is met as per recommended by the Department of Education.  Students are given more chances in all classroom undertaking compared to the previous set-up of 1:60 or 1:70 ratio.  Students can maximize their time in the preparation and completion of their subject requirements.  Students are given more time to attend to remediation classes and to accomplish some interventions assigned to them.  Students can assist in the family home chores or in the family business in case of the morning session during afternoon and during morning in the case of the afternoon session.  There are cases of frequent absenteeism and tardiness both incurred by both sessions due to incapacity of waking up early brought about by sleeping too late, engaging in some nocturnal activities, and having personal problems or partially losing the interest in school.  Sometimes, Independent Cooperative Learning (ICL) session is not effectively done.