November 16, 2006 marked another busy day for the school’s academic and formation administrators. As follow up to the assessment workshop held last August, this workshop aptly called “Building an Ignatian Curriculum” provided the opportunity for the participants to devote time to the curriculum reform. Thus, for a second time this school year, the Grade School and High School administrators went to the Eugenio Lopez Center in Antipolo City.

      Fr. Johnny Go, S.J. began the first session by presenting a diagram that illustrates how the projected curriculum should look like. This representation aligned all the efforts being made by the administrators since the start of the Curriculum Reform Process. Moreover, the school director used Ignatian Spirituality as springboard to further illustrate the Ignatian Approach to Teaching. Furthermore, he tied up everyone's Understanding by Design (UbD) efforts to the whole process.

      After the input, the administrators were asked to work in smaller groups. The two discussion sessions that lasted until the afternoon focused on two tasks: formulating academic/formation outcomes and setting graduation attainment targets. During the conversations, the department persons from both units sat together to share their thoughts on what is to be expect from students. Most were able to draw the core tasks for their subject areas.

      Just before the group traveled back to Xavier School, a brief plenary session was held so that the groups may share some of the important points they have discussed in their articulation. Then, after a brief wrap up by Fr. Go, the group set out to leave for home.

      Now, the academic and formation teams of Xavier are stepping on the gas as everyone and everything moves forward in the Curriculum Reform Process.

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