Strategic HR Management for School Heads
Strategic HR Management for School Heads
Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Duration 2 hours
Session Objectives: Stated as At the end of the session, the school heads should be able to:
Behavioral Outcome Objectives (e.g., o Explain strategic HR, its different sub-processes and link with school effectiveness
Appreciate, Create, Define, Explain): o Assess the school heads’ current HR practices and roles
o Differentiate coaching and mentoring
o Practice giving performance feedback for different performance levels
o Develop an HR action plan that supports their SIP
Contribution to Workshop This session will develop among school heads their competency in managing and developing their teaching and
Outcomes non-teaching staff. As the de facto HR manager in schools, this session will help the school head ensure that
everyone is performing at the optimum level.
Key Understanding DepEd is going towards the direction of Strategic HR. This is being pursued at all levels of the organization
including the school level.
Strategic HR is linked with school effectiveness.
As the de facto HR manager at the school level, the school head is tasked to implement HR programs to
ensure productivity among the staff. The current RPMS being implemented in DepEd provides the school
head with the mechanism to develop and manage people effectively.
Link with the Previous Session None. This is the first session of Module 3.
Link with the Next Session The next session is on Effective Fiscal Management which is another domain of the NCBSSH. As a school head,
the principal is not only tasked to supervise and ensure productivity among its teaching and non-teaching staff.
The Principal is also responsible for ensuring fiscal integrity and sustainability of his school across time.
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
30 minutes Concept mapping is an approach Part 1: Overview of Strategic Human Resource Concept Manila papers
in gathering current and pre- Management maps
existing knowledge and Metacards
perceptions on a particular topic. Activity: Concept Map of HR
Concept mapping starts with a DAP Team Permanent
central idea and how concepts markers
are related to one another. Introduce the Concept Mapping exercise.
1. Draw how you understand the HR function, Crayons
elements, and roles in DepEd through a concept map.
HR is currently being performed 2. Ask each group to answer the following guide
by the school heads in various questions:
forms and levels. What is your understanding of HR in your school?
What is my role as school head in implementing HR
in my school?
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
60 minutes Lecturette
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
A strategic approach to HR
g. General Strategic HR Framework
entails systems thinking. All the
h. Key Principles of Strategic HR
functions of HR operate together
and reinforce each other. They
function under a unified goal: to
improve organizational
performance. Consider CSC's HR
framework and how it resembles
the 7S Model. How do they
resemble each other?
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NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Each school head has their own 1. Distribute inventory of HR practices (ref: Appendix
ways of translating their A: Worksheet). Have participants fill it up individually.
understanding of HR into
different practices.
2. Ask for one volunteer from each school typology to
This is not an activity to pass present a summary of their assessment.
judgments on the school head
but more so to surface practices
and challenges that have helped
and hindered school heads in
taking on their HR function.
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Strategic HR is an approach that Process the outputs using the following questions:
must be taken across all levels of 1. What are the similarities and differences in the
DepEd. Schools are called to outputs?
select the best people, develop, 2. Which of the practices are easy to achieve?
and retain them, in order to best Difficult? Explain
equip their learners with all the 3. What have you realized about the current state
competencies they need once of HR in your school? Why?
they exit the classroom. 4. What policies help or hinder your
implementation of your HR tasks?
Lecturette:
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levels.
Activity: Exploring your Recruitment System
30 minutes
Do and Say:
Discuss:
In the context of changes like K-
B. Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Induction
12, the thrust to recruit the best
educators is stronger than ever.
- The RSPI Process
This highlights the importance of
improving our recruitment,
selection, and placement system
in DepEd.
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Employer branding is an
important thing to consider when - Employer Branding
we look at our RSPI process. It is
our way to tell prospective
employees and partners what
our values and identity are as a
school.
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Facilitators as Users/Clients
Prior to the start of the session, instruct LFs
that in this activity their role will clients.
As clients, they will set the standards (i.e.
quantity and quality) for the paper balls that
the different groups will be tasked to produce.
Give them 5 minutes to discuss their standards
and write on a piece of paper.
After they have set the standards, upon the
cue of the facilitator, they will inform the
different leaders of the groups of these
standards. (Script: “We need paper balls of
this amount and this quality, e.g. size, shape,
colors, etc. within a period of 10 minutes.)
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Decision
After 15 minutes, the balls will be submitted to
the clients for judging. The clients will decide
who the winner is.
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
15 minutes Analysis:
Several elements of this activity Process the activity by asking the following questions
is similar to the school heads HR in the plenary. Publish the responses on the board.
task. These are:
1. In managing people, the end What were the results of your groupwork?
goal is eventually to satisfy What were your measures of success?
the end user/customer. (To the Supervisor) How did you guide your team
2. There is a need to be clear to produce accordingly?
about what are the measures How would you manage your team differently to
of success of each school so get the results that you want?
that all efforts in managing How is this activity similar to your task as school
people will be focused on head?
achieving these milestones of
success.
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
30 minutes Abstraction
Discuss:
C. Performance Management
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
30 minutes
Activity: IPCRF Objective and Performance
Indicator Writeshop
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
An effective performance
management system recognizes
exemplary performance where
deserved and provides avenues
for development where needed.
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Department of Education
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
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Department of Education
NATIONAL EDUCATORS ACADEMY OF THE PHILIPPINES
SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
END OF DAY 1
10 minutes Yesterday was all about Link Day 1 session with Day 2.
understanding and clarifying the
HR tasks of school heads. The
following sessions will be about
developing critical HR skills of
school heads, particularly in
managing performance.
Analysis:
30 minutes
1. What made you comfortable about telling a story to
your sharing partner?
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
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Activity: Listen!
Round 1
Tell participants:
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
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Analysis
PROCESSING OF ROUND 1:
As Speaker, what were your feelings as you were
talking? How do you know you were being heard?
As Listener, what helped you or hindered you from
listening?
Round 2
Tell participants:
1. For Round 2, switch roles. Speaker will now be
Listener. Listener will now be the Speaker.
(Facilitator distributes new Instruction cards to each)
2. Do not show your instruction cards to your partner.
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
Analysis
PROCESSING OF ROUND 2:
As Speaker, what were your feelings as you were
talking? How do you know you were being heard?
As Listener, what helped you or hindered you from
listening?
45 minutes Abstraction
Discuss:
a. Coaching and Mentoring
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Analysis
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE FOR SCHOOL HEADS
well?
(To the Supervisor) What did you do well?
Need to improve on?
(To the Supervisee) what worked and did not
work for you in the effective coaching?
Alternative Analysis:
Process the activity by asking the following questions:
1. How did you feel being the supervisor giving the
feedback?
2. What did you do well?
Abstraction
Continue discussing:
20 minutes
a. Coaching for Different Performance Levels
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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
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END OF SESSION
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