ARMM needs 933 new teachers, starts selection process

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=892592
• Wednesday, June 8, 2016

(PNA), BNB/NYP/EOF

COTABATO CITY (PNA) -- Here's one good news for teachers who recently passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET).

The Department of Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM) has announced it would fill 933 senior high school teaching positions this year.

According to Mobarak Pandi, DepEd-ARMM regional information officer, said selection process for new teachers have started after it administered an English Proficiency Examination for 1,216 applicants.

Pandi said successful applicants will be hired for teaching positions in senior high schools in the schools divisions of Maguindanao I and II, Lanao del Sur I and II and Marawi City.

Dr. John Magno, DepEd-ARMM regional secretary, said the recruitment of new teachers for ARMM will be strict and, as in the past year, mentors will be hired according to their capacity and competence.

Among the applicants was Montaser Dimaukor, a 24-year old Secondary Education major in Mathematics graduate. He is hopeful he would be given a permanent item as a senior high school teacher in Parang National High School in Parang town, under the division of Maguindanao I.

“DepEd-ARMM has systematic selection process now. Anyone could be hired through the different phases they administer,” Dimaukor said.

Another teaching hopeful, Bainajeer Ali, 20, shared Dimaukor's observance on the new selection process.

"The process has been very competitive. The good ones will surely be selected," she said.

A graduate of Secondary Education major in English last year, Ali passed the LET in March this year. If selected, she wanted to be assigned in Talitay National High School in the town of Sultan Sumagka under Maguindanao II division which is near her home.

On June 1, DepEd-ARMM administered similar examination for teacher applicants from schools divisions of Lamitan City, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

Magno stressed that all applicants had to go through a process that includes teaching demonstration, panel interview, and intensive screening of their pertinent papers such as transcript of records, overall average rating in college, and other credentials.

He explained that the processes being undertaken would guarantee that only good quality teachers will be hired in order for students to have a ‘progressive future.’

On April 25, more than 560 elementary and junior high teachers signed their appointment papers and deployment orders in the provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.

A senior high school teacher is expected to receive a monthly salary that range from PHP19,940 to PHP39,493.

Applicants will be ranked according to DepEd’s criteria for evaluation and selection process. The region’s Education department also assured it would follow general guidelines for the hiring and placement of successful applicants.

Based on DepEd’s Department Order No. 23 series of 2016, the school year 2016-2017 will start on June 13 and will end on Friday, April 7, 2017.