New teachers, new system
Published by the Visayan Daily Star Publications, Inc. |
NINFA R. LEONARDIA
Editor-in-Chief & President | CARLA
P. GOMEZ Editor GUILLERMO
TEJIDA III Desk Editor
PATRICK PANGILINAN
Busines
Editor
NIDA A. BUENAFE
Sports Editor
RENE GENOVE Bureau
Chief, Dumaguete MAJA P. DELY Advertising
Coordinator | CARLOS
ANTONIO L. LEONARDIA Administrative Officer |
The Professional Regulation Commission and the Board of Professional Teachers released Wednesday the results of the Licensure Examination for Teachers administered on March 11, 2012.
The agencies concerned announced that 21,130 graduates from colleges and universities from all over the country had passed the examinations for both elementary and high school teachers.
Although the percentages of successful examinees are not too encouraging, the number of new qualified teachers will be a boost to the country’s Education Department, especially because it is now entering a new system that will require no less than 12 years of schooling for every child that begins formal education.
We hope that these new teachers will be accommodated as soon as possible to augment the present ones, many of whom may be retiring, or leaving their teaching positions in the next few years. If our country, and our Education officials are determined to adopt the best methods to improve our quality of education, and enable our graduates to be competitive with those from other countries, it is imperative that we inject our system with the new ideas, new skills and zeal of these new teachers.
It is also encouraging to note that so many of the new passers are included among the top ten of their categories, with very high grades, too. This suggests that they are also good scholars and well motivated persons who show promise of becoming assets to the teaching profession.
Let us therefore welcome the new crop of mentors, who will be in the forefront in the implementation of the Department of Education move to enhance the attitude and skills of the coming generation.*
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