Established October 21, 2004 Status Under Press Release School number 1 Founded 21 October 2004 Staff 3 | Opened April 3, 2004 Specialist Pre-School Number of students 60 Color Light Blue and Light Red | |
School type Non-Profit and Non-Sectarian School | ||
Liceo de Zamboanga is a new school in San Carlos, Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur with an international-oriented curriculum founded in 2004. The curriculum experts and advisers are diverse, as they are people of different heritage, many of whom came from Northern Illinois University and University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
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Curriculum
The school curriculum of LDZ program are based upon the framework of The Creative Curriculum (The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, Fourth Edition, by Diane Trister Dodge, Laura J. Colker, and Cate Heroman) and Montessori Method. The program uses a variety of activities to achieve several broad goals, including: getting along well with others, becoming enthusiastic learners, and getting prepared for the expectations of the Department of Education that "all Grade 1 entrants [should] develop the necessary learning experiences to prepare them for academic work." The school do this by creating purposeful and productive play experiences.
Campus
The building construction incorporated many environmentally sensitive design features, like the high ceiling, to maintain comfortable room temperature. The room is also design not to use air conditioning to minimize unnecessary energy consumption, making the school building environmentally sound. The building is made of modern construction materials like concrete cement for the walls and metal sheets for roofing. Another important materials incorporated in the building construction is the local coconut lumber, a statement of the school administrator’s support to the utilization of indigenous material for building construction.
Administration
MEMBERS
Marithel Ignacio Respicio Southern Mindanao Colleges Pagadian City, Philippines
Jacinta Suan-Respicio Trisha Faye Concrete Products Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
Mayla Cadungog-Marcos MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology Iligan City, Philippines
Rachel Canete Respicio University of Cebu Cebu City, Philippines