Army school to revise curriculum

From the Philippine Information Agency (Feb 11): Army school to revise curriculum

Tarlac-based Training and Doctrine Command (Tradoc) of the Philippine Army (PA) is currently holding a three-week workshop to revise its curriculum.

“The workshop seeks to establish a standard of training and systematic approach for education and training in order to increase Tradoc’s responsiveness essential to the delivery of training excellence,” said Colonel Leouel Santos, director of the Training Development Center (TDC).

TDC is a unit of TRADOC tasked to develop a responsive and dynamic training methodologies and instructors to enhance quality of training.

“The workshop is an offshoot of the recently concluded Army Transformation Roadmap cascading activity where one of the identified objectives is to institute an adaptive and responsive curriculum development system and the result of the Curriculum Review Priming - another related seminar attended by school commandants, army training commanders and coordinating staff - that gave impact to the urgency of revising the training curriculum. This is in preparation to the major changes of personnel training requirements of the Army units,” Santos added.

TRADOC Review and Revision Board is chaired by Deputy Commander Colonel Medardo Geslani with the Command’s Chief of Staff Col. Ramon Bombais Jr., TDC Director Col. Santos, Doctrine Center Director Col. Jose Antonio Carlos Motril, Combat Arms School Commandant Col. Milfredo Melegrito, Combat Service Support School Commandant Col. Jimmy Maala, Army Command and Staff School Commandant Col. Dario Quindoza, Combat Support School Officer-In-Charge Major Francisca Dapiton, and Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, G5 Major Richard Servito as members.

Also joining the Board are TRADOC Command Sergeant Major Chief Master Sergeant Rogelio Mendoza and Non-Commissioned Officer Academy Commandant CMS Mirando Baldiviso.

Officers from the PA Headquarters along with retired military experts were likewise invited as resource speakers.

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=561360498929