Pre-registration of teachers in PD Program on PISA

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE PRE-REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON ASSESSMENT AND EMERGING LITERACIES WITH FOCUS ON PISA

MEMORANDUM

TO : 
UNDERSECRETARY REVSEE A. ESCOBEDO
Field Operations, Palarong Pambansa Secretariat, DEACO

All Regional Directors

FROM : 
UNDERSECRETARY NEPOMUCENO A. MALALUAN
Chief of Staff

SUBJECT :
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE PRE-REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON ASSESSMENT AND EMERGING LITERACIES WITH FOCUS ON PISA

DATE:
18 August 2021

1. As presented during the July 28 Joint Execom-Mancom Meeting, in support of the Department's ongoing preparations for its participation in the 2022 cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), my office ist currently preparing a professional development program for teachers titled Professional Development Program on Assessment and Emerging Literacies with focus on PISA, in partnership with the Bureau of Education Assessment and the Bureau of Learning Delivery, as well as some NEAP-accredited Learning Service Providers. This program aims to improve teachers' assessment literacy and content knowledge to help them align their classroom practice with the emerging literacies measured by international assessments. In view of this, we would like to request for assistance of all regional directors in facilitating the urgent pre-registration of teachers in the said PD program, which is set to start by the 3rd week of September.

2. Every public Junior High School is requested to send three (3) teachers to participate in the said training program, with one teacher each for Math, Science, and English specializations. Further, the teacher participants must be teaching either in Grade 8 or Grade 9.

3. To assist in the pre-registration process, it is requested that each Schools Division Office (SDO) and Regional Office (RO) identify one (1) focal person who will be contacted by my office. RO and SDO focal persons are requested to submit their contact details by accomplishing the following form on or before 20 August 2021, Friday: https://bit.ly/APDFocalPersons.

4. The Pre-registration Process for this professional development program shall follow the following steps:

a. School level
i. Upon review of the details of the professional development program in Annex A - Program Details, teachers who are interested to participate must express their interest by informing their respective school heads. SDO Focal Persons are requested to ensure that Annex A shall be disseminated to teachers within their SDO.

ii. If more than three (3) teachers are interested in each school, the school head may set up an internal selection process to meet the criteria in Item No. 2 of this memorandum.

iii. Once the final list of participants for the school is determined, the school head is requested to accomplish the Annex B Endorsement of Participants (School Level) and submit it to their SDO focal person. The soft copy of this form may be downloaded from https://bit.ly/AnnexBSchoolLevel.

iv. The deadline for the submission of Annex B to SDO Focal Persons is on 25 August 2021, Wednesday.

b. Division level
i. Upon receipt of Annex B from the school heads, the SDO focal. person shall encode the names and details of teacher participants in Annex C - Endorsement of Participants (School Level), which is a Google Sheet that will be sent directly to the SDO focal person upon confirmation of their contact details.

ii. SDO focal persons are requested to validate the qualifications and contact details of the participants before encoding in their respective Google Sheets.

iii. The deadline for encoding the details of the participants is on 31 August 2021, Tuesday.

iv. Upon completion of Annex C, the SDO focal person shall download a copy of their form and submit it to the RO focal person.

c. Regional level

i. The RO focal person shall consolidate all Annex C submissions for their region and subsequently endorse the same to the National Educators Academy of the Philippines at the Central Office by sending them in one e-mail thread through askneap@deped.gov.ph, copy furnish my office through oucos@deped.gov.ph. ii. The deadline of endorsement to NEAP CO is on 3 September 2021, Friday.

5. For any related questions or clarifications, please send an email to oucos@deped.gov.ph.

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