Activity 1.
THROWBACK
Recall a time when you were recruited and employed at DepEd. What were
the challenges and problems you encountered and how did you overcome
them.
1. Illustrate the process experienced on the manner you were
recruited, selected, and appointed.
2. Illustrate the things and objects symbolic of the process of
recruitment, selection, and appointment you have experienced.
For example, a small stone signifies an easy process and a huge
to very huge stone indicates the degree of difficulty on a
particular stage of your recruitment, selection, and appointment.
Activity 2. Answer the following questions by putting a check mark inside
the circle if you Agree or Disagree to the following statements and then
justify your answer on the space provided.
1. As teachers are professionals and hired as the right people to the
right position, it follows that in exercising professionalism in
teaching, they need to know the standards that they need to teach,
and the need to know on how to teach in the most effective ways.
2. Being well-compensated in monetary and other benefits in teaching,
it is a must for teachers to render exemplary performance.
3. If the teachers teach well in their 6 hours of actual teaching loads
and care more about their students, the result would bring a
favorable impact to students to do well and to do better in their
studies.
4. These are the following criteria with respective points used in the
evaluation and selection procedure in the hiring of Teacher 1.
Education 20%, Teaching Experience 15%, LET/PBET Rating 15%,
Specialized Training Skills 10%, Interview 10%, Demonstration
Teaching 15%, and Communication Skills 15%.
5. No teacher may be transferred without his or her consent. Should
there be an urgent need or demand for transfer, the school
superintendent must notify the teacher beforehand and state the
reasons.
6. Any dues can be deducted to teachers aside from what is stipulated
by law.
7. If a teacher reaches the age and service requirements for retirement,
he or she is allowed to enjoy the one-range salary raise.
8. It is just to pay additional compensation to a teacher who renders 8
hours of actual teaching.
9. If a teacher is married to one who is also a public school teacher,
they are not allowed to teach in the same school.
10.During disciplinary procedures, teachers are not entitled to due
process and must not be given a written notice, a time to access
evidence, to make a defense, a time for preparation and appeal.
Activity 3. Direction: Challenge yourself by justifying your answer to
uphold the integrity and professional duties of a teacher.
1. Any teacher engaged in actual classroom instruction shall not be
required to render more than 6 hours of actual classroom teaching per
day with all the classroom teaching preparation, checking of given
exercises and other related work to their normal teaching duties.
Provided however, that where the exigencies of the service so require,
any teacher may be required to render more than 6 hours but not
exceeding 8 hours of actual teaching hours a day. How does this affect
your integrity and professional duties as a teacher?
2. There shall be no discrimination whatsoever in the entrance to the
teaching profession, and/or during in exercising its duties or even in the
termination of tenure in service. Does this affect your integrity and
professional duties as a teacher?
3. As a teacher you submitted yourself in the evaluation and hiring process
of your Schools Division by following what was stipulated in DO 7, s.
2015. In the RQA, you were ranked number 1. It so happened the
appointing authority selected and appointed the teacher next in rank to
you. Did the appointing authority violate your rights as a teacher? Does
this affect your integrity and professional duties as a teacher?
4. DepEd provides the curricula to be implemented and teachers are
encouraged to be innovative in their teaching and classroom methods.
The department supports the academic freedom of the teacher in the
discharge of their professional duties, particularly with regard to
teaching and classroom management. Does this affect your integrity
and professional duties?
5. Salary scales of teachers shall provide for a gradual progression from a
minimum to a maximum salary by means of regular increments, granted
automatically after 3 years to the maximum steps, as provided by law.
Provided, that the efficiency rating of the teacher concerned is at least
Satisfactory. How true is this? Does this affect your integrity and
professional duties as a teacher?
