FILED: House Bill No. 7171 to repeal the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act of 2016
Alliance of Concerned Teachers Party-list launched a petition addressed to the Philippine House of Representatives and the Senate requesting to abolish the Republic Act 10912 also known as the Continuing Professional Development (CPD LAW). Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro from ACT Teachers Party-List filed House Bill No. 7171 to abolish the CPD Law and encourages the professionals to take...
Parts of an Action Research and How to Conduct
What Action Research Is and Is Not What it is… What it is not… •A process that improves education through change •Problem-solving •Collaborative •Doing research on or about people •Cyclical •Linear •Practical and relevant •Conclusive •Within the context of teacher’s environment •Generalizing to larger populations •How we can do things better •Why we do certain things •Explores, discovers and seeks to find creative solutions •The implementation of predetermined answers •A way to improve instructional practice by...
Secretary Briones appeals: Higher honoraria, no tax, more benefits for poll volunteer teachers
May election is fast approaching, election seminar has been done in some areas. Department of Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones filed a petition to the Comelec to increase the honoraria and allowance and to be exempted from the withholding tax on such compensation. This petition is to uphold the welfare and protection of those teachers who will serve this...
Recruitment and Selection of Teacher I Applicants for 2020
Teacher 1 Application Process A teacher 1 applicant must follow the following process and requirements to land the job as a public school teacher anywhere in the Philippines. You have to register online @application.deped.gov.ph Once done signing up you have to encode your information at the Personal Data Sheet and select the division of your choice. After encoding you will be issued...
GSIS to finance teachers’ loan from PLIs already signed
Malacañang Palace- Last April 16, President Rodrigo Duterte witnessed the signing of Project of the Government Service Insurance System or GSIS. The said project is to facilitate the payment of loans of teachers including the DepEd personnel from private lending institutions through buy out. The agreement was signed at Malacañang Palace with the GSIS President and General Manager Jesus Clint...
DepEd orders age-limit for Kindergarten
DepEd issued Department Order No. 20 series of 2018 which establish the cut-off policy for Kindergarten that will be implemented in both public and private schools. The Department of Education (DepEd) claimed that the cut-off for kindergarten is designed to cope with the holistic developmental needs of a five-year-old student, along with social, emotional, values physical health, creativeness, mathematics, understanding...
What You Can Expect From UP College Admission Test (UPCAT)
After finishing Senior High School, one of the things you should consider is where to go to for college. If you are driven and ambitious, you would probably have University of the Philippines at the top of your list. UP is not just cited as one of the best universities in the Philippines, but also in the world. Thus, you...
DepEd to Hire 75,242 Public School Teachers for SY 2018-2019
75,242 teaching positions for kindergarten/elementary, Junior High School (JSH), and Senior High School (SHS) are now available this Academic Year 2018-2019. This was approved by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) after the Department of Education’s (DepEd) request to address the inadequate number of teaching personnel in public schools across the country. The FY 2018 Built-in Appropriations (New School...
British School Manila to close after the suicide of one student
The British School Manila is given until the end of school year 2018-2019 by the Department of Education (DepEd) to comply with the requirements to operate legally as an international school otherwise, the school will be facing closure. Acting upon the complaints made by Trixie Madamba, mother of now deceased Liam Madamba, a BSM student who committed suicide last...
Grade 12 graduates outraged about 2 DepEd assessment examinations
Senior High School (SHS) graduates protested after the Department of Education (DepEd) announced that it will regulate two (2) assessment tests for Grade 12 completers this April and May which caused many cry of frustrations among the students as it impedes the summer vacation. Many get-away plans have been cancelled for many Senior High graduates due to the administration of...
