Profile and Write up

Jet Tadeo is a member of the Corps of Professors of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and is currently assigned at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) as one of its military faculty.  In addition to his duties in the academe, he presently heads the Recruitment Branch of the Office of the Cadet Recruitment and Admission at PMA where it oversees the screening and selection of cadets who would one day be leaders in the AFP.  As a Humphrey Fellow, he will pursue his program in Educational Administration, Planning and Policy at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.  He intends to acquire new wisdom and skills in school administration in addition to developing professional and leadership capacities through the mutual exchanges and the communities involved in the program.  An emphasis would be immersions and networking in U.S. institutions involved in the education and training of military personnel where systems from cadet and soldier recruitment, course implementation, school administration and learning culture would be of particular interest. 

He began his career as an educator back in 2012 teaching Literature and Communications to university students at the University of the Cordilleras before joining the Corps of Professors in 2014.  For the most part at PMA, he designed and implemented courses in Literature and the English Language under the academy’s Department of Humanities.  In the Academy’s Headquarters Academic Group, he has worked in its Operations, Plans and Programs, and Education and Training offices towards the successful implementation of the academy’s curriculum.  He holds a doctorate degree in Language Education from the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City, Philippines; in addition to teaching academic courses to the PMA Cadets, he has delivered lectures in Communicative Competence to military personnel in selected Education and Training Units (ETU) in the AFP.  

After his Humphrey Fellowship, he intends to implement and cascade the best practices in educational administration and leadership from the institutions and communities involved in the program to the PMA and the different AFP ETUs in the Philippines.  Towards the AFPs vision in becoming a world-class armed forces, he plans on adopting what the Humphrey Fellowship offers; the global standards of excellence in Educational Administration, Planning and Policy. Outside of his duties, he enjoys videogames and fiction novels, embracing new things with child-like wonder that new experiences has to offer.