TESDA Trainings should include Resourcefulness
Posted on Monday, 19 January 2015
TESDA
trainings should include
Resourcefulness
By Apolinario Villalobos
The trainings of Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are geared more towards jobs overseas. But
there is one particular training that should be injected with resourcefulness –
baking. The training agency should not only expect that graduates of the
seminar are bound to fill up jobs in hotels and restaurants in the country and
abroad, or embark on a business complete with baking equipment, but will also
start a small home-based business, or just bake cakes and bread for the family.
Regarding the latter option, trainors of the agency should include in their
module how to be resourceful in case a “standard” sized oven is not available
in the homes of these housewives.
This observation is based on TESDA training
in the barangay level in which participants are simple housewives most of whom
do not own a standard-sized oven, and whose interest is to bake bread for the family. The TESDA
should have a module for this particular of group.
In the internet, some shares on baking are
about those done on top of stoves using the iron pot. Another is even about
baking cakes with the use of rice cooker. But since most wives do not even
touch a computer or much more, have computer at home, these knowledge should be
shared by the trainors, themselves in seminars. TESDA should get trainors whose
knowledge on baking is not limited in the use of the standard oven.
The TESDA training programs are allotted
with substantial budget. In this regard, the agency should see to it that the
modules of their trainors are not coped within the western-type knowledge, but
should also cater to what the Filipinos need aside from landing a job in big
companies in the country or abroad, or a big-budgeted family business.
Knowledge learned from the agency should also be geared towards its usefulness
in the Filipino home.
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