Basic Education Department

PARINE SA ATING TAHANAN!

The greatest element of Filipino people boasts of being a family-oriented that can never be exchanged to anything else. All our thinking, values, and religious belief systems, often begin with our Tahanan.
Through the years of teaching-learning process of CEFI, we owe to realize that we Filipinos are mythic beings. Before we see the rays of Sun to its setting, the smile of the Moon and the blinking emotion of the Stars, we stayed months of wonderful development inside our mother. And that cord that connects to our life as a baby is an allegory of relationships that every moment we move apart from our first home to any place we wanted to, we ought to search and feel the presence of a mother, in essence, the value of Ilaw ng Tahanan.

Calayan Educational Foundation, Inc. (CEFI) serves as an Ilaw ng Tahanan and her family, the Basic Education Department (BED) are our intersection. We share programs from pre-elementary up to senior high school level. We teach as we bear the inspiration of St. Rita of Casia. Through our patron saint, we always remember that teaching is a service of pure love, fidelity, and perfect joy to our students as an image of being a mother.
The CEFI-BED delivers a freedom of expression with responsibility, ensuring that our students will grasp that every action corresponds to a careful consequence. This is what it takes to sharply draw the lines among the core values which often comes blurry as learners celebrate the point of reminiscing their years at CEFI with their heads held high.
Intersection from their first to second home suffices its own essence: a way of saying “Anak, welcome to CEFI!”

Harold Pintano
Principal, Basic Education Department

CONTACTS

Email Address:

Telephone Number:

(042) 710-2514

Mobile Numbers:

Smart – 09618136114, 09618136111
Globe – 09159703071

OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT

GOALS and OBJECTIVES

Elementary Program

The Elementary Program is committed to develop:

1. 1. 1. Learners who possess the basic skills in oral and written communication in both English and Filipino.
    2. Learners who possess essential computation skills.
    3. Learners who possess basic knowledge of the scientific process and utilize it to solve problems.
    4. Learners who manifest fundamental knowledge and understanding of:
      1. their basic rights, duties and responsibilities as Filipinos.
      2. Filipino heroes’ role in the development of the country.
      3. desirable Filipino values, traditions and practices
    5. Learners who participate in activities geared towards the protection of the environment and the development of school community.
    6. Learners who are self-disciplined and diligent in curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular work

Junior High School Program

The Junior High School Program of CEFI is committed to:

1. 1. 1. Provide the sound foundation for the development of excellence in communication, computation, analysis and scientific thinking to prepare students for college and meet the challenges of their chosen vocation.
    2. Contribute to the holistic development of students by inculcating love of country, appreciation of cultural heritage, peace and respect for the rights of others.
    3. Develop among the students love for, and interest in the service of their respective communities.
    4. Plant the seeds for a more scientific approach to solving problem.

Senior High School Program

After the completion of the Senior High School Program, learners will be able to:

1. 1. 1. Develop a strong thirst for knowledge exhibited through an ongoing search for a higher standard of learning as a result of progressing output of assessments;
    2. Demonstrate the desirable skills of a 21st-century Filipino through the value of hard work as evidenced by compliance of all academic requirements;
    3. Acknowledge the importance of the scientific method in every aspect of life applied in decision-making, culminating into an acceptable research output;
    4. Show a higher level of self-discipline by acting professionally and finishing assigned tasks with minimal supervision;
    5. Act confidently, respectfully and responsibly towards others, with the absence of discrimination and prejudice;
    6. Express emotions with utmost tact and control at all times;
    7. Show exemplary technical skills as evidenced by a high acceptance rate of national level assessments;
    8. Integrate the knowledge, value and skills learned as CEFIzen through sharing and motivating others in their individual journeys.

HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Calayan Educational Foundation, Inc. (CEFI) is a non stock, non-profit institution founded by Drs. Emeterio, Jr. and Josefina del Villar – Calayan as a School of Midwifery in June 1973. For twenty three (23) years, the school was known as the Medical Center Lucena Educational Institution, Inc. (MCLEI) owing to the name of the hospital formerly operated by the CEFI founders.

In 1997, the institution’s preschool was opened. A year later, the high school and complete elementary programs were offered to address the growing clamor for more educational services.

To preserve the institution’s viability during the Asian economic crisis in 1998, the school metamorphosed into a private educational institution that offered complete pre-elementary, grade school, high school and other allied health college course. The Preschool and high school programs were granted Government Recognition in 1999 and the Elementary program in 2002.

CEFI has ventured further into quality assurance mechanisms. Along with the other academic programs in the institution, the Elementary and the High School programs enjoy Level II accredited status granted by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA). The High School program is also FAPE-PEAC Accredited and is an active player in the Education Service Contracting Program of the Government.

To date, CEFI is one of the challenged schools that embraced K to 12 program implemented by the Department of Education. Through the brilliant minds of the transition team, the Senior High School program smoothly began on June 2016. The school established one of the first Senior High School programs who catered learners ranging from the City of Lucena, to several municipalities, and even beyond the boundaries of Quezon Province.

Along with the major improvements, CEFI gave rise to the Karunungan (Kru) Building, which is sophistically designed for a higher standard of learning environment. It houses the Senior High School students from grades 11 to 12, both Academic and Tech-Voc Strands.

After two (2) productive years of expansion and progress since the launch of the SHS program, CEFI brought together the Elementary, Junior High School and Senior High School programs in 2018 that created a stronger and unified Basic Education Department. As of 2019, the

Basic Education Department continues to grow and to prosper in delivering education of increasing standards in knowledge, skills and attitude as highlight of the institution’s core values: HONOR* SCHOLARSHIP* SERVICE