Erlyn Sana: the NTTCHP Dean

The first time I was meeting her, I thought she would be stern, but she was cheerful and casual.  She was very open and she didn't withhold --not one bit of  a-- chuckle.

She is not the typical college dean. Strict. Unrelenting. Dictating.

She listens. She asks. She concedes. She accepts and respects the differing points-of-view of others. (Although she also puts up a fight when she knows she's right -- so I heard).

That is the reason why anybody can just go in her office. Everybody can just butt in during meetings. All can even taste the food she is eating.

...and now  after two terms that she wants to retire from her  position, everybody says NO! that is if they can have their way to changing her decision.

NTTCHP is grateful for having her as dean and is grateful to God for being driven so crazy to many activities because of a dean that kept going.

NatCon Evaluation

I was asked to make a tabulation of the third of the national conference responses to the evaluation form filled out by the participants during the NTTCHP NatCon held last January 29-30, 2015 at the Hotel Jen, Roxas Blvd., Manila and  it made me happy to see honest-to-goodness responses:

"The second day was most appreciated... the first day was not relevant to my work."
"The conference helped me formulate my assessment tool."

"Very cold environment; gave me occasional headache."
"Use high definition PowerPoint slides."
"Observe strict adherence to time."
"I am impressed. I learned a lot!"

It is very encouraging to receive comments and concrete suggestions on how to improve the conference.   The participants really took time to think on what to write in the evaluation form,  not  just to write generic words such as excellent and helpful, or even boring.

With evaluation such as the ones given, there is nowhere to go for the next NTTCHP NatCon but to become better, more comfortable, more engaging and more useful and specific to the needs of the participants.  As to the tabulation of responses, 99% of the respondents checked the strongly agree boxes for the conference's  relevance, achievement of objectives, usefulness, interactivity and effectiveness of AV aids.