Innovation for 21st Century Teaching and Learning (INNOTeach): From Creation to Completion

This paper aimed at giving the full account of the extension project dubbed as Innovation-Teaching (INNOTeach) from creation to completion. The project aimed to improve the reflective practices of teachers based on evidence to come up with the desirable student outcomes in learning. Employed was a qualitative-narrative design which described the various activities given to the basic education teachers in the implementation of the project. The project used the input-process-outcomes model (IPOO). School-related counting data, knowledge, skills and attitude of the participants, and school resources were accounted in the process to come up with appropriate innovative deliverables to improve teaching and learning practices. Series of training and workshops were conducted to guide the teachers in identifying the pressing problems so they could propose appropriate classroom-based action research. Innovative instructional materials were developed by the teachers as aids in the conduct of action research. Results of the project revealed that through the classroom-based action research, the behavioral impressions of teachers in seeing a child with a problem have been transformed by becoming reflective of their day-to-day work, becoming proactive in accommodating children with special needs, and becoming passionate in conducting more action research in the future. With this transformative outlook in the lives of the teachers, INNOTeach was able to initially achieve its dreams in producing quality students in the 21st century teaching and learning. Thus, the scaling up of this project to a higher level of education is highly recommended.