Teaching hours ng mga guro, ipinanawagang bawasan ng isang grupo
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00:00A group of teachers requested that instead of teaching for 6 hours,
00:06they should do it for 4 hours under a strict curriculum.
00:10This is what Kenneth Paciente wrote.
00:13In the released Department Order No. 5 of the Department of Education,
00:17under the leadership of VP Sara,
00:19teachers should spend 8 hours a day in their service.
00:246 hours here, they will only teach the current teaching to the students.
00:29This is something that the Teachers' Dignity Coalition wants to change.
00:32This was suggested by the group in the House Committee on Basic Education in Camara,
00:37in line with various discussions in the Department of Education.
00:40According to the group, this is a heavy burden for the teachers
00:44because the work inside the classrooms is not easy.
00:47That would be non-stop, 6 hours of lecture.
00:51Well, the break is only 20 minutes,
00:5330 minutes of the health break,
00:56or what we call the children's recess.
00:59That's why it's not practical.
01:01The group requested that they should only teach for 4 hours.
01:07Moreover, there are adjustments in some sections
01:09because of the strict curriculum rollout
01:12this school year 2024 until 2025.
01:14We don't need to be strict.
01:19The work of our teachers is also hard.
01:23We really need to hire more teachers
01:25so that we can help our system.
01:29This was also recommended by the House Committee Chairman
01:31for Education and Culture, Representative Roman Romulo,
01:34that the DepEd should study.
01:36However, the teachers will not be able to teach for 6 hours
01:40to their students.
01:42If the teacher is too tired,
01:45if the teacher is not happy,
01:48at the end of the day, the quality of teaching will be affected.
01:52Our teachers will be physically, mentally, and emotionally strained.
01:57Even if we say that they can teach for 6 hours,
02:00it's not right that there's no break.
02:03Secondly, it's also not right that they can spend more than 8 hours
02:07inside the classroom.
02:08If we ask the grade 4 teacher, Teresita,
02:11she has no problem with the new curriculum.
02:14She said that it will be implemented properly in her advisory class
02:18and that it will not exceed the teaching hours.
02:21It can't be too much.
02:23It has to be just right.
02:24Because the allowed teaching hours of the teachers
02:28is 6 hours teaching alone.
02:30Even so, the DepEd first assured that it will not exceed
02:34the designated teaching hours
02:35of the teaching personnel that is included in the rollout of the curriculum.
02:3945 minutes times 8 is still 6 hours.
02:43That's the allowable teaching load under MAG-Dakarta for public school teachers.
02:48Even so, we listen and we see that there's no break.
02:53We heard that there's a little break, but we need to be very strict about that
02:59so that our teachers won't get tired.
03:01The agency also insisted that from last year until this May,
03:05they already had early orientation in schools
03:08for the implementation of the new curriculum this school year.
03:11Maybe some are saying that they thought that they're done,
03:14but if they're not in grades 1, 4, and 7,
03:16they don't have a solid curriculum yet.
03:19They're teaching the old curriculum.
03:20The 2, 3, 5, and 8 is next year.
03:22DepEd's target is to increase and speed up the hiring of administrative staff
03:27so that the workload of teachers will increase.
03:29Meanwhile, all schools in the country have opened their classes today
03:34thanks to DepEd's monitoring,
03:36along with the evacuation centers that were affected by the recent calamity.
03:40More than 24 million students enrolled this school year.
03:44Kenneth Paciente for Pambansang TV in Bago, Philippines.