Golden Harvest International School

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Train up a child on the way they should go, and when they are old, they shall not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

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Philosophy

Golden Harvest Day Care, has its sole purpose, providing high quality education and child care to children in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The goal of all programs offered at Golden Harvest is to promote the health and well-being of the students and children in its care with a strong spiritual foundation.

Physical activity opportunities are provided with safe and clean areas to roll over, crawl, use walkers and practice walking, all under supervision given with positive feedback and praise. Older children shall have access to the open area inside and the yard, for freedom to run, climb, jump and otherwise enjoy their boundless energy.

Golden Harvest operates on a group basis and provides a quality teaching and child care for all children. Every child shall be recognized as a unique individual, with a set of personality traits that are important for self-esteem. The children will be encouraged in their verbal and non-verbal communication by individualized focuses attention from the care giver. Included shall be used: for example, “safe zones” shall be the primary type of “discipline” for the smaller children, with positive reinforcement, role modeling, learning- re-learning, and other similar methods added for older children.

Children are encouraged to interact with each other in age appropriate ways. Modeling by the teacher and care giver shall include appreciation and respect of other cultures and ethnicities, prompt intervention in situations where a child’s action presents of a potential danger to others, and gentle guidance in social interactions. Moderate use of videos with appropriate messages and daily reading or story time will supplement social interaction learning. Age appropriate problem solving will be encouraged with active listening, description, information and other similar techniques.

A variety of activities, consistent with children’s ages and developmental levels, will be offered in order to stipulate intellectual curiosity and to cater to a child’s special interests, abilities and learning styles. There will be quiet activities as well as more boisterous opportunities. Children will be afforded chances to choose among activities and to express their opinions and decisions, in order to foster their growing independence. At times, programs will be “teacher-directed: and at others “child-directed”. To balance guidance with self exploration.

Mission Statement

• Create an environment in which students will be empowered with language proficiency, general knowledge, social confidence, and civic spiritual success.
• Be encouraged to love learning and perform to their fullest creative potential and their highest degree of competency.
• Learn and develop self-esteem, high morals, and ethics.
• Grow to become healthy, happy, productive, responsible and God fearing citizen.
• Understand that learning is a process and they will have the tools to make decision in unfamiliar situations.
• Learn to function within a variety of complex technological, social, political, spiritual academics.
• Learn to assess themselves and their own developing literacy, orally, and numerally.
• Teachers develop a number of strategies for learning to understand and appreciate the world through a different perspective.
• Help students see relationship across disciplines and learning that education is communal act.
• Golden Harvest Int’l School will develop a child in all aspects- physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually, and spiritually, so that he/she maybe prepared to adjust and cope with the situation within the context of his/her experience.

Vision Statement

• Golden Harvest Int’l School is a Christian school with God at the center of the institution.
• Golden Harvest Int’l School had envisioned of a “Quality Education” in the CNMI and will strive for fulfillment of that vision.
• Children of Golden Harvest Int’l School students/pupils will be competent across the curriculum in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Language, Science, and Bible, developing and appreciating their culture and assessing, evaluating and utilizing information in a variety of formats.
• Golden Harvest Int’l School employees should be qualified, efficient, and proficient;
• Golden Harvest Int’l School pupil will show great appreciation of their culture and Christian values;
• Parents of the communities will be involved as partner in the education of their children;

Office Procedures

1. Needed materials and supplies must be requested in writing to give the office personnel ample time to obtain the necessary materials for classroom use.
2. School personnel who need to leave the school premises during working hours are expected to sign in/out in the log book before they arrive and leave.
3. Sick leave forms must be filled out immediately after one comes back after an illness.
4. Annual leave needs to approve before anyone takes it. An advance request for an annual leave is necessary.
5. Lesson plan must be on the teacher’s table when one is absent.
6. If one is coming late or not at all, a call to the office before 7:15 A.M. or as possible is expected. Alternative arrangements for classes need to be made by the Principal.
7. Each individual is expected to time in to begin the day and time out as you leave for the day.
8. For safety reasons, all parents or guardians must sign in the log sheet before dropping and picking up their child/ren from the school premises.
9. Advance Leave must be approved by the President with the Board’s concurrence, and must be turned in two (2) weeks in advance.

Eligibility for Employment

Eligibility for employment at Golden Harvest Int’l School and Day Care shall be based upon the competencies necessary to fulfill the position requirements.

As an equal opportunity employer and in accordance with applicable Federal and the Commonwealth Law, the administration shall seek to select the most qualified candidates for all positions with the institution. No applicant shall be discriminated against based upon race, religion, color, sex political affiliations, or national origin.

1. Applications must be filled up by all candidates seeking employment with the school.
2. Screening, interviewing, and testing are appropriate for the position shall be conducted to determine eligibility of the applicant.
3. The school shall contact previous employers and other references except as specifically directed not to do so.
4. Subsequent to employment and prior to reporting for work, employees in the areas of custodial, maintenance, warehouse, and other positions requiring a great deal of physical effort shall be required to pass a physical examination at a medical facility designated by the school.

Recruitment and Hiring Practices

All recruitment, hiring, and selection of employees must be based on the requirements of the job, on the qualifications of the applicants, and must be in compliance with applicable Federal and local laws.

Hiring the best-qualified individual promotes the best interests of Golden Harvest Intl’l School and its clientele- the students.

Appointments at Golden Harvest Personnel Service System are defined according to the following classes:

1. Probationary Appointment
   An appointment in which the appointee is selected from an eligible list resulting from an open vacancy announcement to fill in an available position. The appointee shall serve a probationary period of six (6) months from the beginning of his/ her probationary appointment and shall demonstrate his/her capacity for satisfactory performance before being converted to a permanent appointment.
2. Permanent Appointment
   An employee who has satisfactorily completed his/her probationary period of six (6) months shall be appointed to a permanent position. Permanent appointment may be made to less than a full-time position.
   
   An employee who is employed full time by Golden Harvest Int’l School shall be entitled to Workmen’s Compensation. No benefit is accorded to employees at this time due to the school’s financial condition.

Conditions of Employment

Professional Ethics:

Employees shall be guided by a deep conviction of the worth and dignity of the advancement of knowledge, recognize a special responsibility to their disciplines to seek the truth and to state it as they see it—they practice intellectual honesty. Toward this end they devote themselves to developing and improving competence in their fields. They accept the obligation to exercise critical judgment and self-discipline. And although they may pursue other interest, these never seriously distract them from nor interfere with their academic profession.

Employees are encouraged the active pursuit of learning and honest academic achievement in their students. They respect students as individuals and ensure that their evaluations reflect students’ true academic merit. Respecting the professional nature of the relationship between teacher and student, they adhere strictly to their proper role as intellectual guides and academic counselors. Assiduously avoiding any exploitation of students, they present in their actions as in their persons examples of the highest standards of scholarly discipline.

Employees recognize that they have obligations to their colleagues which derive from their common membership in the community of scholars. They respect and defend the free inquiry of their colleagues, and, in the interchange of ideas, they show due respect for the opinion of others.

As citizens engaged in a profession that depends upon freedom of inquiry and expression, teachers have a special obligation to promote conditions of free inquiry and further public understanding of academic freedom.

As members of their community, employees have the rights and obligations of all citizens. They measure the use of these rights and the urgency of these obligations in light of the responsibility to their students, to the school, and to their profession. When they speak or act as private persons, they avoid giving any impression that they speak or act for the school.

Teachers and Staffs determine the amount and character of any work they do outside the school, with the approval of the President and with due respect to their paramount responsibilities within it. Above all else, teachers seek to be competent scholars and effective employees.

Assignments of Employees

Assignment or reassignment of employees, including the duties to be performed, the responsibilities assigned, and the work to be accomplished, shall be the responsibility of the President with the assistance of other appropriate administrative staff shall be based upon a continual assessment of the needs and interests of the students and the community served by the school.

Work Schedule

1. Work schedules are determined on the basis of the needs and requirements of each unit and are designed to:
   1. Provide orderly and efficient service.
   2. Provide regularly recurring consecutive hours of work where practicable.
   3. Avoid overtime.
2. Full time staff members are regularly scheduled for forty (40) hours of work each week. In most cases this consists of five (5) eight-hour days. Special characteristics inherent in some jobs and temporary work situations may warrant establishing schedules that vary from the normal pattern.
3. Normal work schedule for the school administration is from 7:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday. For some function within the school, starting and quitting time may vary from time to time.
4. Special rearranged workweek schedules should be discussed by the Supervisor and the President.
5. All full-time employees of the school will be paid on bi weekly bases. Employees must complete and submit Time and Attendance Records, approved by their supervisors, to the Accountant, on the last day of each pay period. Pay periods end every other Saturday.

Daily Weekly Requirements

Daily Attendance

Attendance record needs to be filled out every day. Teacher must record the student who is absent or tardy for the day. Teacher needs to indicate by placing (A) for absent or (T) for tardy in your record notebook if in case the child is tardy or absent. Your cooperation is important for proper documentation of student record.

Lesson Plans

Every morning before the time from Monday to Wednesday, every teacher’s lesson plan and working plan must be submitted to the Principal for checking. This is needed for the purpose of knowing what the teacher is doing in her daily lessons in every subject based from the working plan in addition to the skills/concept the teacher is going to teach.

If in case the teacher is absent, the lesson plan and all visual aids that needs to be used for that day should be left in her classroom table.

A teacher must use due care to organize, prepare for classes, maintain harmony in the classroom and deliver an effective teaching techniques to ensure that the concepts are met every day, every week and every quarter.

Time and Attendance

All school personnel/employees are responsible for timing IN and OUT each day. A time out sheet/log book is found at the entrance of the Principal’s office.

Individual faculty workloads reflect the different kinds of responsibilities in the school. The work of the teacher in all areas of responsibility is professional in character and therefore does not conform to an exact pattern. Nevertheless, in order to have some basis for objective judgment in formulating budgets and as a point of reference, the workload of a teacher/staff may sometimes be referred to as “equivalent to” a forty hour work-week. However, it must be noted that such reference is not intended to imply that employees are expected to “punch a time clock”, or “put in an 8-hour day”, or a “5-day work-week”. It is, rather, a quantitative indicator of the faculty member’s professional commitment to the work of the school.

Tardiness

An employee who is tardy for five times (5x) in a school year will be charged AWOL. Other expectations will be at the discretion of the President.

An employee must attend his/her regular scheduled classes or assignment, remain at the school during preparation periods, attend in-service meetings/trainings as scheduled, arrive ten to fifteen (10-15) minutes punctually at his/her workplace and attend other required functions such as PTSA meetings, Bible Study, and Prayer meetings. An intentional disregard of directive to attend or continuous tardiness despite directives/reminders may result in dismissal from employment.

Supervision

To ensure that all students of Golden Harvest International School and Day Care are learning in a safe and conductive environment, students should be attended to at all times.

Immediately report all accidents to the office. Fill out an accident and/or incident report. Ground supervision is crucial. It is expected that the teacher/staff on ground supervision arrives on time and is visibly present as directed.

Leave

The purpose of providing leave to GHIS employees is to allow them personal time to take care on non-GHIS related business, to relax, and to recuperate from illness or injury. The importance of an employee being allowed the time to take care of personal business, to relax and to recuperate from illness or injury is recognized by GHIS.

Annual/Sick Leave

Every employee of GHIS who has been with the school for one year is entitled for an annual vacation leave and sick leave. But because GHIS does not have enough resources to pay for the leave, this will be a leave without Pay. Leave should be taken during summer vacations which from the months of June to July and during Christmas break. Annual leave must be approved in advance by the President or its board of directors. However, the Board may deny an employee’s request for an annual/sick leave if there is a rational basis reasonably legitimate concern or interest of GHIS, its students, or staff for doing so.