DLSZ Vermosa Campus

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School (DLSZ), signed a contract with top developer, Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI) for an extension campus in Vermosa, Imus, Cavite.
Br. Bernard S. Oca FSC, DLSZ President and Br. Raymundo B. Suplido, DLSZ Board of Trustee graced the contract signing ceremony together with ALI President, Bernard Vincent Dy and Anna Ma. Margarita B. Dy., ALI Senior Vice President.
DLSZ Administrators, student and parent representatives and the employees of the school were present to witness the contract signing.

ALI donated the land and seed money to fund the construction of a school building. Vermosa, regarded as the future city of the south is a sprawling 700-hectare estate, master-planned to offer fundamental mixed-use components– from a wide range of horizontal residential options, sports themed retail with healthy dining selections, a central business district, hotel, educational institutions, and entertainment that are seamlessly integrated with generous open spaces that allow opportunities for social convergence and encourage efficient movement in everyday life.
Redefining suburban living, this future city will showcase the Vermosa Sports and Lifestyle Complex that will house world-class sports facilities including an Olympic size pool, oval track, motocross track, bike skills trail, and the country’s first Sports Science Laboratory.
The DLSZ-Vermosa Campus is envisioned to be the trailblazer in technology-supported learning in Philippine education. True to its vision, the DLSZ-Vermosa Campus will provide a world-class, learner-centered environment that produce lifelong learners who are reflective, creative, critical thinkers and problem-solvers in a transformative and innovative learning environment. It will be a campus that will promote green architecture through its facilities and structural designs.
Further, it will continue to uphold a dynamic learning community through its existing student programs in the fields of academics, science and technology, sports, arts and music. These programs inspire curiosity and promote the attainment of developmental and holistic learning. Further, the Vermosa Sports and Lifestyle Complex will serve as a training facility to DLSZ’s athletes who will represent the Philippines in local and international competitions. It will also build a church within the school site and open it to the public for regular Sunday masses.
This move is also one of DLSZ’s visions in ensuring that Lasallian education is more accessible to a greater majority of students in southern Mega Manila. In order to fully transition to the implementation of the K to 12 program, it will also offer different tracks and strands for the Senior High School program. These are: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), ABM (Accountancy, Business and Management) and HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) Strands under the Academic Track and the Arts and Design Track.
DLSZ is a member of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a new district-wide network of seventeen Lasallian schools in the country. For 37 years, it has been producing outstanding Lasallians who are responsible citizens in the service of church and country.
According to its founder, St. John Baptist de La Salle, the main purpose of every Christian school is to rear children in accordance with the teachings of Christ as found in the gospel. Thus, DLSZ, as an academic community, fosters not only academic excellence but also the spiritual and moral maturity of the individual.
The DLSZ-Vermosa campus will continue what has been started in the DLSZ-Alabang campus that is to continue to offer Lasallian excellence in education thereby developing globally-ready students.
The DLSZ-Vermosa Campus hopes to open by the start of Academic Year 2016-2017.

article source:inquirer.net

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Helpful and Effective Tips in Passing the DLSUCET

Helpful and Effective Tips in Passing the DLSUCET
By: Cloyd Uyson
(I wrote this article 6years ago, and I'm reposting it for the benefit of those preparing for the DLSUCET, if you guys know anyone from the fourth year this will surely be of help to them)

It’s my fifth year now of teaching here in De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, and I found out how a lot of my students really wanted to study or get accepted at De La Salle University. Indeed, this October 17, Sunday (For this school year it would be on January 2016 due to the change of the start of classes), is a red-letter date for the majority of DLSZobel students who will be taking their make or break College entrance test, the DLSUCET exam. For most of us teachers, we support our dear students in this important exam by not giving them projects and homeworks prior to the said examination day.
These students of ours do take the preparation phase of taking the said test very seriously. Their parents send them to review centers or they hire tutors who will enhance their mathematical, scientific and English skills. The school on the other hand gives summer review programs and remedial review classes in Mathematics, Science and English.
In short, reviewing is the key to a greater chance of passing the DLSUCET! As Edgar Dale once wrote in his famous Core of Experience Theory, and I quote: “Why Review? Review because research shows that people retain 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, 30% of what they see and 90% of what they do.”
Back to the DLSUCET Test, Personally I am wondering what could be the exact pointers which will appear in the actual test. But since it is highly confidential, we can but give our students the basic rules and tips in taking a college entrance exam and getting a higher chance of passing such test.
Here are some of the basic tips from my former students who made it to DLSU Manila which I gathered from my four years of teaching here at De La Salle Santiago Zobel School. These former DLSZ students of mine either by chance visited our school and I grabbed the opportunity in asking them to spontaneously share to their younger former schoolmates some practical tips why they made it to DLSU Taft, to ADMU or UP. It’s a sort of a joyous “pay it forward” experience for these nice alumni.
Here then are the random things they shared in view of preparing and taking the DLSUCET:
1. Be intellectually prepared. There is nothing else which can beat intellectual preparation before taking any university entrance exam, most especially the DLSUCET. You must be serious in attending your review classes either in school or in any review center.
2. Do not just memorize. Instead, understand and do internalize the basic concepts in the major subjects namely science, math and English. Memorizing will bring you far but once you forget just a concept, you might get a mental blockout. Understanding and taking or viewing things in a larger perspective will make a difference and will definitely bring a better result.
3. Analyze each item very carefully. Reason out. Remember your philosophy days. Scrutinize each question with the end in mind, namely getting the best if not the correct answer. If the question seems too hard, leave it, move to the next item and go back to it after finishing the entire test.
4. Compared to ACET and UPCAT, time pressure is not a problem with DLSUCET. Hence, you can review your answers and change your answers to those items which you are not really very sure.
5. According to a bright freshman alumnus of DLSZ, there was no essay during their DLSUCET last year. They were just asked to fill in the blanks with the best word or phrase in order to make the statement grammatically correct and the sentence complete. Supply those blanks with short, concise, grammatically correct word, phrase or phrases. Use your common sense and vocabulary skills.
6. Just in case there will be an essay this year here is one important tip: Read up on current events or at least be aware of the most recent issues in our country, in politics, education, the Church and other relevant matters that deals with our country.
7. According to another intelligent alumnus, with DLSUCET, compared to ACET and UPCAT, Math items were not that difficult nor tricky. You just have to maintain your focus and presence of mind. Be precise and certain with the formulae. With
Physics, do study and master the graphs. There will be a lot of them in the test. Reading was tough. They were too long and hard!
8. As of last year’s DLSUCET test, they were told by their upper schoolmates who took the said test that just in case you are not so sure with the answer among the choices, most likely, the answer is letter C! Well, it’s ultimately up to you if you will follow this advice. But I suggest, that you better follow your first instinct. If you think it’s not letter C, then by all means choose the best answer!
9. Let’s talk about the more practical part: Basically, the DLSUCET usually include the following type of tests in view of language proficiency: vocabulary, identifying errors, verbal analogy, sentence completion, paragraph and sentence connection and reading comprehension.
a. These are the tips in answering effectively this language proficiency test:
i. Read the sentence to yourself, say it loud in your mind and trust your ears or intuition for grammar. Recall the similarities of such statements in your English lessons before.
ii. Good grammar is usually concise.
iii. Read in order to succeed. Comprehend each sentence.
iv. Familiarize yourself with basic or commor analogy patterns.
b. Answering your DLSUCET Math Test:
i. Be conscious of time, but do not panic. Be calm.
ii. Scan all the items of the test for you to get a bird’s eye view or a complete/holistic perspective of what you are going to answer.
iii. Pace yourself well. Manage your time wisely. Do not spend it all in answering the hard items. The more items you cover and answer the better.
iv. Keep your pencil moving in order for your brain to work well. Have a hard focus in each item. Do not be too nervous or to complacent noe excited. You will get distracted otherwise.
v. Draw diagrams in your scratch paper.
vi. Visualize all the formulae which were taught to you in your Math classes and review classes. Be precise with them.
vii. Eliminate choices. Choose the best answer.
viii. Back-solve problem and concentrate well.
c. Answering DLSUCET Science Test:
i. Keep track of the time limit yet answer very calmly
ii. Have an overview of the entire coverage of the test through scanning it.
iii. Have a dynamic pace in answering.
iv. If your mind tells you that this is the answer to this item and such answer is indeed among the choices, most likely, that is the correct answer. Then choose it!
v. Be conscious of all the given tables, data and graphs.
vi. Solve each problem one at a time in your mind. Again, do the golden rule: “Never Panic”!
vii. Do watch out for correlations or relationships between quantities and other variables that are found in the items.
viii. Do review your answers.
ix. You may change answers by all means if you think it’s needed and necessary.
d. Answering the Reading Comprehension part of the DLSUCET:
i. Scan and skim questions for you to get an overview.
ii. Manage your time wisely through proper pacing.
iii. Read each passage in order to understand the sentence structures.
iv. Work first with familiar passages rather than the unfamiliar ones.
v. You must base your answers on each passages only.
vi. Be conscious when to move to the next item or reading.
The Day before the Big Day
Reminders from the Guidance Office: Bring the following on the Exam day:
1. Exam permit
2. Lead Pencil (#1 or #2 only)
3. School ID
4. Snacks (Canteens inside the campus are closed on Sundays!)
Take the time to get your stuff in order on the day before the exam. Make sure your exam permit (Don’t leave home without it!) and your school identification are within easy reach. Prepare your pen, pencil, sharpener and eraser, as you cannot pass what you cannot write on.
You may also wish to bring a jacket, a sweater, or something that can keep you warm. There’s always a chance that you’ll get assigned to some super cool room. Believe me, freezing during an exam does not improve your chances of passing it one bit. Finally, remember to pack some brain food (fruits, veggies, nuts, tuna etc.) and water for refueling purposes, as well as some medicine and tissue. Now this is not to suggest that the DLSUCET will make you sick, but you’ll never know…Bring extra sandwiches in case you feel hungry during or after the test. Please do not bring sweets, chocolates or candies since this will distract you mind in eating such goodies!
The Big Day
Get a good night’s sleep before the big day so that your mental powers will function at their peak. Fill your gasoline tank (read: your stomach) with fuel in the morning so that your brain can think properly. Offer your daily libation (i.e. visit the comfy room) before hand. Most importantly, pray before the exam. Divine guidance is a must! Copy this very powerful prayer which I learned from the wisemen and sages of old:
The Prayer Of Jabez!
“Lord, grant that you may bless me, and bless me indeed! Increase my territorries and keep me away from evil amen! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, Amen
Likewise, let’s not forget to implore the help of our Lady, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus’Mother and our Mother too to bless you all on Sunday as you take your said test.
Leave early enough so that you can get there at least thirty minutes or even an hour before the exam, then take the time to relax and clear your mind. Do some yoga or meditation to calm yourself down and to give yourself that feeling of empowerment.
After The Exam
Eureka!!!!It’s Finished!!!!You’ve done your best! Now pray, relax, and chill out.
I’ll leave you with this bit of encouragement: it is said that De La Salle University actually has more slots for enrollees than other schools (and they kind of prioritize students of their High school Department, yes, De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, your school, our beloved school!!!!) mainly Ateneo and UP, so there’s a pretty good default chance that you’ll make it. If you’ve done your best, believe that you will, and the universe will move according to your beliefs. You are a Lasallian after all, a person with wholistic formation, EXCELLENCE personified!:-)

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HANDOUT ON CONSCIENCE LESSON

Welcome to the 2nd Term,Lesson 2
CHRISTIAN LIVING 3: MORALITY
Course Outline for Term 2
The Morality of Human Acts:

Subtopic 1: “Exercising Christian Conscience
What is Human Conscience
What Conscience is Not
Conscience Morally Obliges
Subjective Dimension
Objective Dimension
Formation of Conscience
Following your conscience
Forming a Christian Conscience
Mature Christian Conscience
The Law and the Spirit of the Law

Contemporary Moral Issues

Subtopic 2: Celebrating Life and Health- “the 5th Commandment.”
“The Morality of Abortion”
“When Does Human Life Begin?”
“ The Morality of Euthanasia”
“How Should a Christian Face Death?”
“The Issue on Cloning and Stem Cell Technology”
“What is the Stand of the Catholic Church?”

Sources:
Catechism for Filipino Catholics Manila: Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines and Word & Life Publications, 2004.

Catechism of the Catholic Church Manila: Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines and Word & Life Publications, 1994.

Maturing in Christian Faith, the National Catechetical Directory of the Philippines. Manila ECERI, 1985.

Peschke, Karl H. SVD. Christian Ethics: Moral Theology in the Light of Vatican II, Volume 1: General Moral Theology. Manila: Divine Word Publications, 1996.
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http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=conscience%20powerpoint&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDYQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundteaching.org%2Fppt%2FThe%2520Conscience%2520of%2520Man.ppt&ei=2EVNUNW4CsfsrAe2yoGQCA&usg=AFQjCNHj5Bq7lnIdg5v658NXzZeDpEH_Ag&cad=rja
Requirements
5 gospel reflections
3 / 4 short assessments
2 long assessments
Class participation/recitation/seatworks
1 Major project
1-2 minor projects

Exercising Christian Conscience

When your intelligence don’t tell you something ain’t right, your conscience gives you a tap on the shoulder and says ‘Hold on’. If it don’t, you’re a snake.— Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977)

Conscience is God’s presence in man.— Emmanuel Swedenborg, Swedish-American spiritualist (1688-1772)

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.— Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American writer and humourist (1818-1885)

Responses of Some Junior Students
To follow what is right and what you know is the right thing to do.  - JF
In any situation, we should be well informed and take all facts into consideration. Our gut instinct may not always be right… - JF
Follow what your conscience tells you no matter what the circumstances are and do what is good. –JF

Conscience makes us aware of whether what we are doing is right or wrong. It’s innate that we – people -  are made good but we go astray at times and conscience is our reminder, but sometimes it gets clouded by what we value or prioritize –JC

The value and function of one’s conscience is to inform the person about the right or wrong decisions or life choices. It is an inner voice within a person that is also nurtured by experience as a person goes through life. –JC

It is better to die excommunicated than to disobey your conscience.



– St. Thomas Aquinas
CONSCIENCE
When considering the nature and function of conscience there are four questions to keep in mind:
1. What is conscience?
2. Where does conscience come from?
3. Is conscience innate or acquired?
4. What is its function in ethical decision making?
Conscience
What is conscience?

A moral faculty or feeling prompting us to see that certain actions are morally right or wrong.
Conscience can prompt people in different directions.
We consider it to be a reliable guide but it lacks consistency and can lead people to perform terrible actions.

Timeline
Augustine of Hippo 334-430
Thomas Aquinas 1224–1274
Joseph Butler 1692–1752
John Henry Newman 1801–1890
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939
Jean Piaget 1896-1980

Biblical teaching

It is assumed by some biblical writers and early Christian teachers that our conscience is God-given. This view is put clearly in Paul’s letter to the Romans:

‘When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts…’ (Romans 2:14-15a)

Augustine
Conscience is the voice of God speaking to us
Aquinas

All people aim for what is good and sin is falling short of God’s ideals, but sometimes even following conscience we will get it wrong.
Aquinas
Conscience for Aquinas has 2 essential parts:

Synderesis – the use of right reason by which we learn basic moral principles and understand that we have to do good and avoid evil.

  Conscientia – the actual judgement or decision we make that leads us to act.

Aquinas – Reason seeking Understanding

Butler
wrote that the most crucial thing which distinguished women and men from the animal world was the possession of the faculty of reflection or conscience.

So being human involves being moral.

Conscience is a person’s God-given guide to right conduct and its demands must therefore always be followed.

Butler
Conscience comes from God and must be obeyed

Conscience will harmonise self love and benevolence
Butler
the consequence of an action is not what makes it right or wrong as that has already happened
the purpose of conscience is to guide a person into a way of life that will make them happy
conscience will harmonise self-love and benevolence – this may take some sorting out and so in moral dilemmas we may be uncertain what to do
conscience controls human nature

Joseph Butler – conscience comes from God
Newman
Conscience is the voice of God

‘If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear.’

Freud
The human personality consists of three areas:
the superego – the set of moral controls given to us by outside influences. It is our moral code or conscience and is often in conflict with the Id.
the ego – the conscious self, the part seen by the outside world.
id – the unconscious self, the part of the mind containing basic drives and repressed memories. It is amoral, has no concerns about right and wrong and is only concerned with itself.

Freud
Conscience is most clearly connected with the sense of guilt that we feel when we go against our conscience. Conscience then is simply a construct of the mind.
In religious people this would be in response to perceptions of God.
In non-religious people it would be their responses to externally imposed authority.

Freud
The content of our consciences are shaped by our experiences

The superego internalises the disapproval of others and creates the guilty conscience

Piaget


A child’s moral sense develops and the ability to reason morally depends on cognitive development.

Piaget
Two stages of moral development:

Heteronomous morality (between the ages of 5 and 10 years) when the conscience is still immature, rules are not to be broken and punishment is expected if a rule is broken. The consequences of an action will show if it is right or wrong.

Piaget

Autonomous morality (10+) when children develop their own rules and understand how rules operate in and help society. The move towards autonomous morality occurs when the child is less dependant on others for moral authority.

Problems
For Christians conscience is often regarded as the voice of God. However, this raises some serious questions:
If we always knew that what our conscience told us to do was God’s command then we would never make mistakes
However, we do make mistakes
If we can’t hear God properly – whose fault is it?
Problems
Christians often have disagreements over moral issues such as abortion.

So are things not as clear cut as ‘the voice of God’ definition of conscience suggests?

Problems
Many atheists claim that conscience is important to them.
Such claims do not rely upon God.
For atheists, agnostics and humanists, conscience is part of being human and there is no need to involve God when moral decisions have to be made.
Conscience appears to be a universal part of human moral living.

Conscience

Is it innate or acquired?

Or both?

WHAT IS CONSCIENCE?
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OUR CONSCIENCE
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OUR CONSCIENCE
Misconception # 1
CONSCIENCE IS INDIVIDUALISTIC
Misconception # 2
CONSCIENCE IS GOD’S VOICE WITHIN US
Misconception # 3
CONSCIENCE IS OUR FEELING OF GUILT
Misconception # 4
MEDIA’S DEPICTION OF CONSCIENCE AS AN EXTERNAL REALITY
Group activity: WHAT CONSCIENCE IS NOT

TASK:
Share what you have read to your group – important points


Each group will have to subdivide their groups further (3 small groups).

Each small group should be able to portray unique instances wherein they will be able to show in a skit the topic assigned them.

Which means, the big group should be able to present 3 unique short skits (30 seconds – 1 minute) of the topic assigned them. Reminder: No skit within the big group should be alike.

The big group will only be given 20 minutes to brainstorm, form subgroups and rehearse.

After 20 minutes, the presentation of the skits will take place.
Submit in a ½ crosswise in 5 minutes:
Group # and topic
Overall leader:

Members:
Skit 1 – names
Skit 2 – names
Skit 3 – names

Presentation of Skit
Introduce the group
and the topic
At the end of ALL the skits, explain your topic with a quick summary.
Misconception # 1
CONSCIENCE IS INDIVIDUALISTIC
The notion of “my way” … doing and following one’s conscience without considering the good of others.
1. What matters most is “I was the one who made my decisions whether it’s good or evil.”
2. “Malinis ang Konsensiya… wala akong pakialam sa iba.”
3. “it’s between me and my conscience”  

We are RELATIONAL BEINGS

…we are truly free as persons-in-community only by fulfilling our moral obligations toward one another.
Misconception # 2
CONSCIENCE IS GOD’S VOICE WITHIN US
Natural tendency is to relate our conscience to God’s voice since we are created as moral persons and God is the perfect norm.

We should not equate our conscience with God’s voice because conscience can sometimes be a serious error.

Misconception # 3
CONSCIENCE IS OUR FEELING OF GUILT
We hear a common remark “nakakakonsensiya ang ginawa ko.”
The statement erroneously equates conscience with a feeling of guilt.
Does it mean that our conscience is automaitcally correct once we no longer feel guilty?



We should not equate guilty feelings with conscience itself.

OTHERWISE we reduced conscience to a feeling that results from our personal temperament, upbringing, or maturity and not from an actual objective moral judgement.
Misconception # 4
CONSCIENCE IS MEDIA’S DEPICTION OF CONSCIENCE AS AN EXTERNAL REALITY
Films and advertisements usually depict human conscience in very entertaining yet misleading ways.
Example: (choosing which brand of soap smells better)
Media’s depictions don’t have reference to any objective moral standard and real moral weight or value.

9 Bible Verses about Consciences, Description Of Most Relevant Verses

9 Bible Verses about Consciences, Description Of Most Relevant Verses

Acts 23:1

1 Timothy 3:9

Hebrews 10:22

1 Corinthians 8:7

1 Timothy 4:2

2 Corinthians 1:12

Romans 2:14-15

John 8:9

1 Timothy 1:19

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