TYPES OF EDUCATION AND ITS COMMUNITY

Educational Community

Refers to those persons or groups of person as such or associated in institutions involved in organized teaching and learning systems.

Parents

Guardians or the head of the institution or foster home which has custody of the pupil or student.

Students

Those enrolled in and who regularly attend educational institution of secondary or higher level of a person engaged in formal study.

Pupils

Those who regularly attend a school of elementary level under the supervision and tutelage of a teacher.

School Personnel

All persons working for an educational institution.

Teaching or Academic Staff

All persons engaged in actual teaching and/or research assignments, either on full-time or parttime basis in all levels of the educational system.

School Administrators

All persons occupying policy implementing positions having to do with the functions of the schools in all levels.

Academic Non-teaching Personnel

Those persons holding some academic qualifications and performing academic functions directly supportive of teaching, such as registrars, librarians, research assistants, research aides, and similar staff.

Non-academic Personnel

All other school personnel not falling under the definition and coverage of teaching and academic staff, school administrators and academic non-personnel.

Schools

Institutions recognized by the State which undertake educational operations .

Formal Education

Refers to the hierarchically structured and chronologically graded learning organized and for which certification is required in order for the learner to progress through the grades or move to higher levels.

Elementary Education

The first stage compulsory, formal education primarily concerned with providing basic education and usually corresponding to the first six or seven grades , including pre-school programs.

Secondary Education

The state of formal education concerned primarily with continuing basic education usually corresponding to four years of high school.

Tertiary Education

Post secondary schooling is higher education leading to a degree in a specific profession or discipline.

Specialized Educational Services

These are services to meet the special needs of certain clientele.

Work Education of Practical Arts

Aims to develop the right attitudes towards work; and technical-vocational education, postsecondary nut non degree programs leading to one, two or three year certification in preparation for middle-level occupations.

Special Education

The education of persons who are physically, mentally, emotionally, socially or culturally different from the so-called “normal” individuals.

Non-formal Education

Any organized school-based educational activities undertaken by education department aimed at attaining specific learning objectives for a particular clientele, especially the illiterates and the out-of-school youth and adults.