K to 12 Transition for Private

Education Institutions
Atty. Joseph Noel M. Estrada
August 27, 2013
• Elementary = 6 years
• High School =6 years
• Junior High School= 4 years
• Senior high School= 2 years
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• Total 12 years
 Trans-issues

• Delivery of Enhanced Basic Education

• Teacher Education and Training
• Teacher Qualifications and Hiring
• GASTPE
 Schools are NOT ALLOWED TO
DEVIATE from the order of sequence
and duration as provided by law.
 Schools are allowed to adopt their
own structure for monitoring learning
and teaching systems.
 primary consideration: compliance
with national educational policies,
plans, and standards (Sections 21-22,
BP 232)
Teacher Education and Training
Current DepEd teachers;
Teachers in the private schools
New teachers or graduates of the current
teacher education curriculum;
Superintendents;
Principals;
Subject area coordinators;
Instructional school leaders;
(ALS) coordinators, instructional managers and
learning facilitators, in this manner:
• TEDP- TEACHER EDUCATION & DEV’T
PLAN

• National Competency-Based Teacher

Standards (NCBTS).
• In-Service Training
• Pre-service Training of Graduates
–CMO 30, Series of 2004, or
–CHED Memorandum Order No. 52,
series of 2007,
–or earlier versions of the curriculum.
Duly Recognized Organizations Acting
As Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs)
Purpose of Teacher education & training
programs:

Ensure that the enhanced basic

education program meets the demand
for quality teachers
This mandate is directed to Teacher
Education Institutes (TEIs) covered by
CHED Memorandum Order Nos. 30, Series
of 2004, and 52, Series of 2007, and
includes all other entities that may
hereafter be allowed by DepEd and CHED
to educate and train teachers.
 D.R.O.A.T.s
• refers to organizations, other than schools or
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs),
contracted out by the DepEd for a fixed
period, to provide teacher education and
training for purposes of retooling the
graduates of the teacher education
curriculum, and only in such areas where
there is a shortage of trained teachers.
 Temporary Nature
It is apparent that these organizations’
role in training new teachers might
diminish or rendered unnecessary,
once existing TEIs or HEIs have aligned
their Teacher Education curriculum
with the enhanced basic education
curriculum under the K-12 Law.
 Notwithstanding R.A. 7836

• Graduates of Science, Match, etc.

• Teacher Volunteers admitted by
foundations
• Faculty of HEIs
• Technical-Vocational Teachers
• Experts
• Address shortage of qualified LET applicants
• qualified LET applicants- meant licensed
teachers
• DepEd/PRC; and Private Schools determines
Shortage
• Conditional Qualification- passing the LET
• Survives Transition Period
“Qualified LET applicants shall also
include graduates admitted by
foundations duly recognized for their
expertise in the education sector and
who satisfactorily complete the
requirements set by these
organizations”
• Not in SBN 6643
• Not in HB 3286
“In case of a conflict between the
statement/amendments stated in this Joint
Explanation and that of the provisions of the
consolidated bill in the accompanying
Conference Committee Report, the provisions of
the latter shall prevail”
• LET Condition does not apply
• Volunteers admitted/trained by
Foundations
–Written LET is Waived, NOT
Academic Qualification
• “Foundations, as used in this section, refer to
non-profit organizations, which are not
operating as educational institutions,
contracted out by DepEd for a fixed period, to
provide volunteers to teach in basic education
in areas where there is a shortage of qualified
teachers. The DepEd shall issue the guidelines
and procedures for selection and eligibility of
these organizations to qualify.”
• Alternative Source of Teachers
• Flexibility of DepEd (Fixed period,
shortage)
• DepEd to promulgate guidelines
 Graduates of Tech-Voc
• Executive Order No. 83 Series of
2012, or the “Institutionalization of
the Philippine Qualifications
Framework (PQF)”
• 8 Descriptors
• Harmonize with K to 12 Curriculum
• National Certificate from TESDA
• In-Service Training
• LET is waived
 Faculty of HEIs
• Bachelor’s or Master’s?
• CHED as the lead agency to determine
Minimum Academic Qualifications of
Faculty
• MORPHEI- Master’s; except PE and
Music; or professional license for a
bachelor’s degree in cases of dearth of
Master’s Degree Holders
• Minimum Academic Qualification of
Faculty CANNOT be separated from
Requirement of Full-Time Status;
• Joint Order Requires compliance
with MORPHEI Qualification to be a
full-time faculty.
 E-GASTPE
• Increasing the amount of assistance may be
done through the implementing guidelines of
DepEd
• New GASTPE Law to extend assistance to
Kindergarten and SHS?
 Repealing Clause
Laws, decrees, executive orders and
rules and regulations, are repealed or
modified only insofar as their
provisions are inconsistent with the
provisions of the K-12 Law.
• Succinctly put, those prior laws are
still good laws as long as these are
not in conflict or do not run counter
to the K-12 Law.