PPST LEAD TO A QUALITY EDUCATION

The author is Teacher

ICA REDINA I. HIZON

Teachers are main contributors of Education. They pass on knowledge and values in every generation. They play crucial role in developing and touching one’s life.

The Department of Education issued an ordered No2 2015, a guidelines on the Establishment and Implementation of the Results-based Performance Management System (RPMS) to ensure efficient, timely and quality performance among teachers .

The guidelines explain mechanisms, criteria and processes for performance target setting, monitoring, evaluation and development planning. Through the RPMS, the DepEd ensures that work efforts focus towards achieving its vision, mission, values and strategic priorities toward the delivery of quality educational services to Filipino learners.

The alignment of the RPMS with the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers has led to the development of new results-based assessment tools, hence, this Manual on RPMS Tools for Teachers. Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST) is for enhancing teacher quality ranks foremost in the many educational reform efforts toward quality education. It is one of the educational reforms for improving the quality of the teaching and learning process.

It is a reform initiatives on teachers quality and has been developed and nationally validated. This was signed into policy by Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Maria Leonor Briones through DepEd Order No. 42, s. 2017

A tool to measure the performance of a teacher. PPST set the standard on what teachers should know be able to do and value to achieved competence, improved student learning outcomes.

It also articulated what constitutes teachers quality through well defined domains, strands and indicators that provide measures of professional accountability that could help teachers reflect on and assess their own practices as they aspire for professional growth and development.

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I at Masantol High School