Monday, September 01, 2008 Mendoza: DepEd 11 yields 8 superintendents eligible By Lorenzo E. Mendoza The Scribe's Corner
EIGHT DepEd 11 officials are among the 140 passers out of the 1,361 examinees nationwide who took the 2008 Educational Management Test (EMT).
The officials are composed of one regional supervisor, one OIC assistant schools division superintendent, three division supervisors and three principals.
The EMT is popularly known as the Superintendent Examination.
The qualifying examination for entry to at least the position of assistant schools division superintendent was held at Rizal High School, Pasig City last June 29, 2008.
The successful examinees are Maria Ines A. Asuncion, Maria Antonia P. Diaz, Cristy C. Epe, Eufemia T. Gamutin, Nelson C. Lopez, Reynaldo B. Mellorida, Dee D. Silva and Feliciano A. Tamondong.
Congratulations! May you continue Deped's quest of producing functionally literate Filipinos in the years to come.
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A good news to all teachers and non-teaching personnel.
DepEd Secretary Jesli A. Lapus is confident that the proposed law on additional teachers' and non-teaching personnel's compensation, which seeks to add P9,000 to the present monthly pay, will be passed soon.
Lapus disclosed that Speaker Prospero C. Nograles and incoming House Appropriation Committee Chairman Junie Cua are well aware of the urgency of the measure and have committed to calendar the bill next week.
He is confident that the bill can be enacted into law as soon as possible before Congress goes on recess on October 11, 2008.
The Committee on Basic Education, chaired by Rep. Del de Guzman of Marikina City had earlier approved the measure.
The Secretary has been actively lobbying for the passage of House Bill No. 4734 and its counterpart Senate Bill No. 2408 giving additional compensation to public school teachers and non-teaching personnel.
It was earlier reported in this column that the Senate headed by Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Loren Legarda, Edgardo Angara and Ramon Revilla have already passed it and now on its 3rd Reading.
"We believe that the enactment into law of this bill will greatly improve the lot of our hardworking teachers and will directly impact the quality of education in the country," Lapus said.
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Teachers should be developing skills which answer the three questions - What to do? How to do it? Why is there a need to do it? They should not stop in dealing with definitions.
These are some of the important issues and concerns shared by the Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE) during the National Core Group Training of Education Supervisors in Cebu City last August 24-29, 2008.
The training aims to present the updates of the 2010 Secondary Education Curriculum (SEC), which will hopefully be fully operational in the year 2010.
Deped Central Office Director Lolita M. Andrada headed the training.
The Director of the Bureau of Secondary Education was also at hand to encourage the teachers to be one with them in the department's aim of equipping the students.
The training also aimed to organize teachers by year level to build a culture of collaboration.
This was patterned after from the Whole School Approach.
The department leaders are one in saying that the objective can be attained if capacity of the supervisors, school heads and teachers are built.
They maintained that the center of all these initiatives must be the Child.
Andrada also mentioned about the Deped's Teacher Education Development Program (TEDP).
The program attempts to integrate all the initiatives of the agency linking with the PRC, CSC, Ched and other line agencies.
Twenty-two delegates from Region 11 headed by Dr. Luzminda O. Onor, Chief, Secondary Education Division joined the training-workshop.
All plans for teachers' development are anchored on National Competency Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS).
NCBTS has seven domains: social regard for learning, the learning environment, the diversity of learners, curriculum, planning, assessing, and reporting, community Linkages and personal and professional growth.
Editor's note: Mr. Lorenzo E. Mendoza, M.A. is the Media Officer of DepEd Region 11.
