With reference to DO No. 24, s. 2020, the National Adoption and Implementation of the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads (PPSSH), the BHROD has commenced its preparatory work to align the competency assessment and examination with the standards set by the PPSSH. As DepEd moves towards competency-based HR, the NQESH will remain its primary …

Conduct of the 2021 National Qualifying Examination for School Heads (NQESH) Read More »

The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 (RA 10533) added two additional years of senior high school in order to align with international benchmarks and offer more training to facilitate the work readiness of students. The Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) track has been offered to produce high school graduates with employable skills. Under this track, high school …

Is There a Job Waiting for Senior High School Graduates? Read More »

The transition to distance learning in the school year 2020-2021 has been perceived as rushed and rocky despite large-scale endeavors to prepare the school, teachers, learners, and their families for the new learning delivery modalities. Teachers scrambled to figure out how to weigh the need to be flexible with learners’ participation against the desire to …

The Credibility of Standards-Based Grading System in the Time of COVID-19 Emergency Read More »

The low performance of students in international and national assessments proves that there are many constraints facing science education in Philippine schools. On its first attempt to participate in PISA in 2018, the Philippines scored 357 in Science Literacy, placing the country second from the bottom similar to that in mathematics literacy. Filipino grade 4 …

Challenges and Interventions in Raising the Quality of K to 12 Science Education Read More »

Senior High School learners are the ones heavily affected by school closures amid COVID-19. Learning has been done remotely, through modules, internet, television or radio, for example. However, the degree to which learning can still take place outside the classroom, particularly in Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) Track, is often limited by lack of access to electricity, internet …

Senior High School TVL Issues, Concerns and Interventions During COVID-19 Crisis Read More »