The Department of Education (DepEd) announced, on Thursday, that the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) granted a priority status to some 1, 638 senior high school teachers, whose provisional appointments are set to expire by July this year, in the 2021 Licensure Exam for Professional Teachers (LEPT
We are thankful to the PRC for immediately accommodating our request to include provisional SHS teachers in the first batch of examinees in this year’s LEPT. This would ensure that we have sufficient manpower to allow us to provide unhampered delivery of education services, especially during this time of health crisis,
Education Secretary Leonor Briones said in a statement.
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Due to the large number of examinees, the PRC decided to conduct this year’s LEPT into four batches to comply with the established health and safety protocols.
Education Undersecretary for Planning, Human Resource, and Organization Development Jesse Mateo assured SHS teachers, who were hired on probationary status in 2016, will still be able to continue teaching in school year 2020-2021.
Due to the unavoidable circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 LEPT was postponed… That’s why, as early as February this year, we have been coordinating with the PRC and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to ensure that the affected provisional teachers can continue teaching in the upcoming school year,
he said.
The first batch which consists of first-time takers are set to take the exam on September 26, while the next three batches will be scheduled for the next year on January 30, March 27, and June 26. Some repeaters will be accommodated in some regions on a first-come-first-served basis.
Similar coordination effort with the CSC has been done. The Commission is carefully studying concerns raised to ensure unimpeded teaching services of DepED SHS provisional teachers,
Mateo said.
He added that the Department remains committed to exhaust all options to ensure continued service of SHS provisional teachers.
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DepEd: “Provisional teachers can continue teaching this SY 2020-2021”
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