Dr. Ma. Delia M. Tamondong-Diaz obtained her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila in 1978. She finished her Master of Arts in Counselor Education from the Pangasinan State University College of Education, Bayambang, Pangasinan under the MEC-PSU Scholarship Grant in 1982, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Development Education from the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation, San Carlos City, Pangasinan in 1995.
She has worked in applied settings being a Guidance Counselor and Department Head of the Speaker Eugenio Perez National Agricultural School, San Carlos City, Pangasinan,(June 1978 to September 2007) and as School Principal of the DepEd – Mabalbalino National High School (September 2007- to present) and in academic settings where she was a Professor of Psychology, Statistics and Research at the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation and San Carlos Colleges Graduate School, both in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, and at the Lyceum-Northwestern College of Arts and Sciences, Dagupan City. Currently, she teaches partime at the Binalatongan Community College, a college for the poor founded by the Casillan Foundation three years ago.
Dr. Diaz also taught and Values Education in a number of years as a national tryout teacher of the SEDP and has attended various national trainings one of which is at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, as a DECS Integrated Scholarship Program Grantee. She actively engages herself as trainor/resource person in various psychosocial development trainings sponsored by various private and public organizations which is capped by being a regional trainer for Values Education in SEDP Mass Training for Teachers as well as the Basic Education Curriculum in 2002. As school administrator, she has also organized in-service trainings to enhance teachers competencies.
Dr. Diaz hails from San Carlos City, Pangasinan and is blessed with two children, one biological daughter Yna Xanne and one adopted daughter Mildred. Nurtured and cared for by a farmer family – Alfredo, her father and Catalina, her mother, she farms herself the family’s own farm.
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She has worked in applied settings being a Guidance Counselor and Department Head of the Speaker Eugenio Perez National Agricultural School, San Carlos City, Pangasinan,(June 1978 to September 2007) and as School Principal of the DepEd – Mabalbalino National High School (September 2007- to present) and in academic settings where she was a Professor of Psychology, Statistics and Research at the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation and San Carlos Colleges Graduate School, both in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, and at the Lyceum-Northwestern College of Arts and Sciences, Dagupan City. Currently, she teaches partime at the Binalatongan Community College, a college for the poor founded by the Casillan Foundation three years ago.
Dr. Diaz also taught and Values Education in a number of years as a national tryout teacher of the SEDP and has attended various national trainings one of which is at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, as a DECS Integrated Scholarship Program Grantee. She actively engages herself as trainor/resource person in various psychosocial development trainings sponsored by various private and public organizations which is capped by being a regional trainer for Values Education in SEDP Mass Training for Teachers as well as the Basic Education Curriculum in 2002. As school administrator, she has also organized in-service trainings to enhance teachers competencies.
Dr. Diaz hails from San Carlos City, Pangasinan and is blessed with two children, one biological daughter Yna Xanne and one adopted daughter Mildred. Nurtured and cared for by a farmer family – Alfredo, her father and Catalina, her mother, she farms herself the family’s own farm.
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| The roofless school building of MNHS caused by Cosme |
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| Roofless Canteen, Guidance Center, and TLE room |
The greatest adversity encountered by Madam Delia was Cosme’s wrath in May 2008. Mabalbalino located west of the City was hardly hit, houses blown down and the school was hardest hit too. It was a challenge to beat opening classes on June 4. Roofs blown down, books submerged in water, walls destroyed, chairs destroyed, instructional materials damaged.
Armed with great courage and belief in others, she mobilized the faculty, student government, and the parents association and the Barangay Council. In matter of time, bayanihan worked wonders and the school opened on June 4. The great accomplishment of putting all together the roofs of the classrooms as a product of cooperation among all the school stakeholders was a feat realized through the charmed vigor and energy of Madam Delia.
Armed with great courage and belief in others, she mobilized the faculty, student government, and the parents association and the Barangay Council. In matter of time, bayanihan worked wonders and the school opened on June 4. The great accomplishment of putting all together the roofs of the classrooms as a product of cooperation among all the school stakeholders was a feat realized through the charmed vigor and energy of Madam Delia.
Cosme also destroyed books and instructional materials. Together with the parents, the students dried the books on the rooftops. Madam Delia sent these pictures to her friends in the USA and requested for donations. The San Carlenians of Pangasinan USA responded to her call, and they sent $500 for books. They also donated potable water system to the school which cost Php75,000.00.
Books donated by San Carlenians of Pangasinan USA
Support extend by the San Carlenians of Pangasinan USA to Mabalbalino National High School through the efforts of Madam Delia.
For the students of the Mabalbalino National High School, Madam Delia solicited $500 scholarship fund (SY 2008-2009) and $150 (SY 2009-2010) from the San Carlenians of Pangasinan, USA, Moreover, there were athletics scholars from individual stakeholders of the school.
Support extend by the San Carlenians of Pangasinan USA to Mabalbalino National High School through the efforts of Madam Delia.
For the students of the Mabalbalino National High School, Madam Delia solicited $500 scholarship fund (SY 2008-2009) and $150 (SY 2009-2010) from the San Carlenians of Pangasinan, USA, Moreover, there were athletics scholars from individual stakeholders of the school.
To improve student achievement, she organized feeding programs for the learners, and for that she solicited rice from non government organizations such as the Pangasinan Group of Manitoba, Canada. This organization also donated rice and groceries to the families of the students of Mabalbalino.
To boost this program, she promoted school gardening, and backyard gardening among the students. Feeding program of the school was supported by these gardens
One significant contribution and accomplishment made to the community while in the School is enriching the lives of the members of the community by opening the computer laboratory to all students. When the lab was opened to the community, different segments of the population became users. What makes the contribution significant is enriching lives with computer technology skills – whether it is a non-English speaking person learning how to type and speak in broken English, or a disabled or limited person gaining confidence in themselves because of the welcome (“to everybody”) setting of the lab. This gave the community members a sense of confidence and leadership. When they obtain this in themselves, they in turn pass it on to others. In a sense, closing the digital divide little by little.
Madam Delia also brought the services of the Red Cross to this far flung area. For the first time, the community experienced the blood typing and the students with the Leadership training and Basic Life Support Training.
The most significant accomplishment was keeping her attitude “up” and taking it day by day as it goes by with the downsides of life, work stress, family issues and everything that comes along unexpectedly. Madam Delia deals with a lot of new things, but this whole experience as a school head has made her a lot stronger. The accomplishment of getting people in a community involved by the hundreds as teachers and students, is truly significant. These concrete and tangible numbers show that more people have become more aware of their role in school improvement . They also show how many individuals have become part of the development of Mabalbalino . Madam Delia apparently accomplished the value of sustainability. Just as she strived to create a sustainable project, she created sustainability within herself...to keep going, to keep at this project. She sustained her role as community mobilizer in the face of the temptation to abandon the work, in the reality of her own self-doubt and in frustration of working in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people.
Basic to Madam Delia as a person is her kapwa concept which to her implies moral and normative aspects that obliged her to treat one another as fellow human being and therefore as equal. She bridges the deepest individual recess of her person with anyone outside of herself even total strangers. Her concept of kapwa defines her shared identity. She sees her inner self with others. In her life, Madam Delia is recognized by her genuine, people-centered orientation (makatao), her service to others around her (matulungin) and her commitment to their communities (pagkapamahalaan). Among the people around her, Madam Delia is an inspiring leader and community organizer. As foot soldier, she is a reliable and one who steps forward to volunteer. She is quick to lend a hand and share her skills and knowledge freely (I;e; by teaching children, working with the poor, or facilitating community workshops. Her help usually comes with a big gratis smile.
Community building and peace keeping is second nature to Madam Delia. Her bearing inspires the people who work with her to facilitate at meetings, organize events and actively participate in civic affairs. Her shared self is centrally figured in her special expression of pakiramdam which resides in her heart. Madam Delia has a pakiramdam which matches an ocean-like expanse of kapwa with an equally large area of heightened awareness and sensitivity. Her strong sense of pakiramdam triggers the spontaneous voluntary actions that come with the sharing of herself. She manifests a keen deep inner feeling that initiates all her deeds. Her good sensing cues (magaling makiramdam) is a good survival tool in a job where not all social interactions are carried out with words. Madam Delia exhibits an extraordinary pakiramdam as a unique social skill that provides the tacit leads how to act appropriately in any situation and may well be regarded her cognitive style intrinsic of her personhood.
Kapwa and pakiramdam of Madam Delia forge a core value of kagadanhang loob, which nudge her into genuine acts of generosity towards nurturing the genuine feeling for others – empathy. Her kagandahang loob acts as an anchor that grounds kapwa and pakiramdam into a conviction that life is about learning, creating, and sharing; and that, it is good even if there are hardships because God is good.
In summary, Madam Delia is an epitome of a shared identity value structure deeply rooted in the ancestral heritage of Pangasinenses whose disposition direct personal values in profound and unquestioned ways – a total image of Amputi Layag, strong-willed anchored on kapwa culture that leads towards learning to learn to learn.
To boost this program, she promoted school gardening, and backyard gardening among the students. Feeding program of the school was supported by these gardens
One significant contribution and accomplishment made to the community while in the School is enriching the lives of the members of the community by opening the computer laboratory to all students. When the lab was opened to the community, different segments of the population became users. What makes the contribution significant is enriching lives with computer technology skills – whether it is a non-English speaking person learning how to type and speak in broken English, or a disabled or limited person gaining confidence in themselves because of the welcome (“to everybody”) setting of the lab. This gave the community members a sense of confidence and leadership. When they obtain this in themselves, they in turn pass it on to others. In a sense, closing the digital divide little by little.
Madam Delia also brought the services of the Red Cross to this far flung area. For the first time, the community experienced the blood typing and the students with the Leadership training and Basic Life Support Training.The most significant accomplishment was keeping her attitude “up” and taking it day by day as it goes by with the downsides of life, work stress, family issues and everything that comes along unexpectedly. Madam Delia deals with a lot of new things, but this whole experience as a school head has made her a lot stronger. The accomplishment of getting people in a community involved by the hundreds as teachers and students, is truly significant. These concrete and tangible numbers show that more people have become more aware of their role in school improvement . They also show how many individuals have become part of the development of Mabalbalino . Madam Delia apparently accomplished the value of sustainability. Just as she strived to create a sustainable project, she created sustainability within herself...to keep going, to keep at this project. She sustained her role as community mobilizer in the face of the temptation to abandon the work, in the reality of her own self-doubt and in frustration of working in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people.
Basic to Madam Delia as a person is her kapwa concept which to her implies moral and normative aspects that obliged her to treat one another as fellow human being and therefore as equal. She bridges the deepest individual recess of her person with anyone outside of herself even total strangers. Her concept of kapwa defines her shared identity. She sees her inner self with others. In her life, Madam Delia is recognized by her genuine, people-centered orientation (makatao), her service to others around her (matulungin) and her commitment to their communities (pagkapamahalaan). Among the people around her, Madam Delia is an inspiring leader and community organizer. As foot soldier, she is a reliable and one who steps forward to volunteer. She is quick to lend a hand and share her skills and knowledge freely (I;e; by teaching children, working with the poor, or facilitating community workshops. Her help usually comes with a big gratis smile.
Community building and peace keeping is second nature to Madam Delia. Her bearing inspires the people who work with her to facilitate at meetings, organize events and actively participate in civic affairs. Her shared self is centrally figured in her special expression of pakiramdam which resides in her heart. Madam Delia has a pakiramdam which matches an ocean-like expanse of kapwa with an equally large area of heightened awareness and sensitivity. Her strong sense of pakiramdam triggers the spontaneous voluntary actions that come with the sharing of herself. She manifests a keen deep inner feeling that initiates all her deeds. Her good sensing cues (magaling makiramdam) is a good survival tool in a job where not all social interactions are carried out with words. Madam Delia exhibits an extraordinary pakiramdam as a unique social skill that provides the tacit leads how to act appropriately in any situation and may well be regarded her cognitive style intrinsic of her personhood.
Kapwa and pakiramdam of Madam Delia forge a core value of kagadanhang loob, which nudge her into genuine acts of generosity towards nurturing the genuine feeling for others – empathy. Her kagandahang loob acts as an anchor that grounds kapwa and pakiramdam into a conviction that life is about learning, creating, and sharing; and that, it is good even if there are hardships because God is good.
In summary, Madam Delia is an epitome of a shared identity value structure deeply rooted in the ancestral heritage of Pangasinenses whose disposition direct personal values in profound and unquestioned ways – a total image of Amputi Layag, strong-willed anchored on kapwa culture that leads towards learning to learn to learn.
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