1.

2. Informal Education – This refers to the lifelong process of learning by

which every person acquires and accumulates knowledge, skills, attitudes
and insights from daily experiences at home, at work, at play and from life
itself.

3. Integrated Schools – Schools that offer a complete basic education in one

school site and has unified instructional program.

4. Basic Education – It covers early childhood education, elementary, high

school, alternative learning system and special needs education.

5. Operating Officers – DepEd officials who are directly involved in the

implementation, evaluation and monitoring plans, programs and projects of
the department.

6. Adults Learners – These are learners who are aged 25 years old and
above who are illiterates or neo-literates who have either no access to
formal education or have reverted to illiteracy.

7. Schools Division Superintendent – He/she can appoint only teachers,

school heads/principals and division education supervisors.

8. Regional Director – He/she can direct the establishment of another new

district upon the recommendation of the Schools Division Superintendent.

9. Regional Director – He/she can exercise disciplinary action over the

teaching personnel only.

10.Republic Act 9155 – An act that renamed the DECS into DepEd abolished
the BPESS (Bureau of Physical Education and School Sports) and the
transfer of the Komisyon ng Wikang Pilipino, national Historical Institute,
Records Management and Archives to the National Commission for Culture
and Arts (NCCA).

11.Republic Act 9155 – Known as the Governance of Education Act of 2001

12.Republic Act 8980 – Known as the Early Childhood Care and Development
Act

13.Republic Act 10157 – Known as the Kindergarten Education Act

14.Republic Act 8525 – Known as the Adopt-a-School Act of 1998

15.Republic Act 7836 – Known as the Philippine Teachers Professionalization

Act of 1994
16.Republic Act 8190 – Known as the Localization Law

17.Republic Act 4670 – Known as the Magna Carta for Public School
Teachers

18.Republic Act 6713 – Known as the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards
for Public Officials and Employees

19.Republic Act 7160 – Known as the Local Government Code of 1991

20.Republic Act 7041 – Known as the Publication Law

21.Republic Act 9184 – Known as the Government Procurement Reform Act

22.Republic Act 7610 – Known as the Special Protection of Children against

Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination

23.Republic Act 7880 – Known as the Fair and Equitable Allocation of the
DECS Budget for Capital Outlay

24.Republic Act 7877 – Known as the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

25.Batas Pambansa 232 – Known as the Education Act of 1982

26.Presidential Decree 603 – Known as the Child and Youth Welfare Code of
the Philippines

27.Community Linkages – It is the learning environments that respond to the

aspirations of the community domain of the NCBTS.

28.Career Service – It is based on merit and fitness determined as far as

practicable by competitive examinations as based on highly technical
qualifications.

29.MT 1 for 3 years and MA academic requirements – Qualifications to

become a Master Teacher II.

30.Transfer – It is the movement of the employee from one position to another

which is of equivalent rank level or salary without break in the service.

31.Promotion – It is the advancement of the employee from one position to

another with an increase in duties and responsibilities and usually
accompanied by an increase in salary.

32.Reinstatement – It is the issuance of an appointment to a person who has

been previously appointed to a position in a career service and who has
through no delinquency or misconduct, been separated therefrom
exonerating him specifies restoration to his previous position.
33.Reassignment – It is the movement of one employee from on
organizational to another in the same department or agency which does not
involve a reduction in rank, status or salary.

34.Six (6) months only – An additional period given to a public employee who
is already 65 years old but not achieved 15 years in the service.

35.Merit Promotion Plan – This provides guidelines, policies and procedures for
recruitment, selection and appointment.

36.Learning Management Plan – It is a document focused in learning composed of the

Professional Development Plan of school head, professional development plan of
teachers and student development activities.

37. Informal Education – This refers to the lifelong process of learning by which every person
acquires and accumulates knowledge, skills, attitudes and insights from daily experiences at
home, at work, at play and from life itself.

38. Integrated Schools – Schools that offer a complete basic education in one school site and has
unified instructional program.

39. Basic Education – It covers early childhood education, elementary, high school, alternative
learning system and special needs education.

40. Operating Officers – DepEd officials who are directly involved in the implementation, evaluation
and monitoring plans, programs and projects of the department.

41. Adults Learners – These are learners who are aged 25 years old and above who are illiterates or
neo-literates who have either no access to formal education or have reverted to illiteracy.

42. Schools Division Superintendent – He/she can appoint only teachers, school heads/principals
and division education supervisors.

43. Regional Director – He/she can direct the establishment of another new district upon the
recommendation of the Schools Division Superintendent.

44. Regional Director – He/she can exercise disciplinary action over the teaching personnel only.

45. Republic Act 9155 – An act that renamed the DECS into DepEd abolished the BPESS (Bureau of
Physical Education and School Sports) and the transfer of the Komisyon ng Wikang Pilipino,
national Historical Institute, Records Management and Archives to the National Commission for
Culture and Arts (NCCA).

46. Republic Act 9155 – Known as the Governance of Education Act of 2001

47. Republic Act 8980 – Known as the Early Childhood Care and Development Act

48. Republic Act 10157 – Known as the Kindergarten Education Act

49. Republic Act 8525 – Known as the Adopt-a-School Act of 1998

50. Republic Act 7836 – Known as the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994

51. Republic Act 8190 – Known as the Localization Law

52. Republic Act 4670 – Known as the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers

53. Republic Act 6713 – Known as the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and
Employees

54. Republic Act 7160 – Known as the Local Government Code of 1991

55. Republic Act 7041 – Known as the Publication Law

56. Republic Act 9184 – Known as the Government Procurement Reform Act

57. Republic Act 7610 – Known as the Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation and
Discrimination

58. Republic Act 7880 – Known as the Fair and Equitable Allocation of the DECS Budget for Capital
Outlay

59. Republic Act 7877 – Known as the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

60. Batas Pambansa 232 – Known as the Education Act of 1982

61. Presidential Decree 603 – Known as the Child and Youth Welfare Code of the Philippines

62. Community Linkages – It is the learning environments that respond to the aspirations of the
community domain of the NCBTS.

63. Career Service – It is based on merit and fitness determined as far as practicable by competitive
examinations as based on highly technical qualifications.

64. MT 1 for 3 years and MA academic requirements – Qualifications to become a Master Teacher
II.

65. Transfer – It is the movement of the employee from one position to another which is of
equivalent rank level or salary without break in the service.

66. Promotion – It is the advancement of the employee from one position to another with an
increase in duties and responsibilities and usually accompanied by an increase in salary.

67. Reinstatement – It is the issuance of an appointment to a person who has been previously
appointed to a position in a career service and who has through no delinquency or misconduct,
been separated therefrom exonerating him specifies restoration to his previous position.
68. Reassignment – It is the movement of one employee from on organizational to another in the
same department or agency which does not involve a reduction in rank, status or salary.

69. Six (6) months only – An additional period given to a public employee who is already 65 years
old but not achieved 15 years in the service.

70. Eight (8) hours and five (5) working days – It is the number of hours and days a teacher should
render his/her services.

71. Six (6) teaching hours and two (2) working hours – It is the complete teaching and working
hours of a teacher in a day.

72. Technical Skill – This is a management skill given to employees who are unfamiliar with their job
or present assignment.

73. Strategic Planning – It is the process of setting directions for an institution to realize what it
wants to achieve and to go where he wants to go.

74. 25 points in leadership and potential – A minimum point required to a Master Teacher
candidate in order to be promoted.

75. “The road to excellence starts here.” – A battle cry of every public school which means
excellence is management that orchestrates diverted at the different aspects of principal
operations to achieve the instructional goals of the school.

76. Portfolio Assessment – A diagnostic tool which provides pupil’s profile and the emerging skills
that will help him become increasingly independent learner and evaluate his possession of
knowledge.

77. Fifteen (15) days – Number of days a receipt of request by the school to the issuance of official
school certificates, diplomas, transcript of records, grades, transfer credentials and similar
documents and records.

78. Civil Service Manual – It contains the basic regulations, institution and information which guide
DepEd Central Office and the field personnel in carrying out the teacher of the department.

79. DepEd Order, Memoranda and Bulletins – These are issued by the DepEd for directions and
regulations for the information of or compliance by the field.

80. Recruitment – It refers to the process of searching for and identifying job candidates in
sufficient quality and quantity.

 Community of Practice (COP) – It is a group of professionals/workers bound to

one another based on common problems and pursuit of solutions.
 Instructional Development – It is a means of determining the extent to which the
application of a new skill/competency learned contributed to improving teaching
and learning.
 National Educators’ Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) – Formerly known
as the National Education Learning Center (NELC). It provides continuing
strategic human resource development programs for school managers and leaders
within the context of emerging legitimate demands.
 Mentoring – It is developmental, caring, sharing and helping relationships where
one person invests time, know-how and effort in enhancing another person’s
growth, knowledge and skills.
 Code of Ethical Standards – It defines the administrative disciplinary case as
one wherein an official or employee of the government is prosecuted for an act or
omission punishable as a non-penal offense as provided for in the Civil Service
Law, Administrative Law and other laws.
 Grievance Procedure – It is referred to as workable procedure for determining or
providing the best way to remedy the specific cause or causes of the grievance.
 Property Accountability – It is the obligation imposed by law on an official for
keeping accurate records of property.
 The Principal’s Guidelines Regarding Standard Operating Procedures for
Teachers and Accounting of Government Property – This is to enable the
principal to group property management as applied to teachers in her particular
school.
 Performance Indicators – It refers to the several key indicators that can be
computed and utilized for evaluating the educational systems performance at
various levels.
 Participation Rate – It is the ratio between the enrolments in the school age
range to the total population of that range.
 Growth Enrolment Rate – It refers to the total enrolment in a given level of
education as a percentage of a population which according to national regulations
should be enrolled at this level. It is the measure of the capacity of a regional
elementary and secondary school.
 Cohort Survival Rate – It is the proportion of enrollees at the beginning grade or
year who reach the final grade or year at the end of the required number of years
of study.
 Completion Rate – It is the percentage of first year entrants in a level of
education who completes/finishes the level of accordance with the required
number of year of study.
 Drop-out Rate – It is the proportion of pupils who leave the school during the
year as well as those who complete the grade/year level but fail to enroll in the
next grade/year following the school year to the total number of pupils during the
previous school year.
 Transition Rate – It is the percentage of pupils who graduate from one level of
education and none on the higher next level.
 Achievement Rate – It refers to the degree of performance in different study
areas in various levels of education.
 Mean Performance Score (MPS) – It indicates the ratio between the number of
correctly answered items and the total number of test questions or the percentage
of correctly answered item in a test.
 Teacher-Pupil Ratio – It is the proportion of enrolment at a certain level of
education in a given school year to the number of authorized nationally-paid
positions.
 M2 (moderate) Maturity Level of Teacher – A maturity level of teacher who
does not need only direction and supervision but needs encouragement or support
and recognition for a job done.
 Encouraging Style of Leadership – It is described as a combination of high
directive (task) and high supportive behavior and is most appropriate to be used to
people who have some competence but lack of commitment.
 DepEd Order No. 28, 2005 – It recognizes the Red Cross Youth (RCY) as
official co-curricular organization in the school and encourages every elementary
and secondary student to enlist as members of the Junior Red Cross Youth
(JRCY) and the Senior Red Cross Youth (SRCY).
 Republic Act 8190 – The law that provides that teachers-applicant or teachers-
transferee for that matter given priority if they are bonafide residents of the
barangay, municipality or province where the school recipient is located.
 DepEd Order Number 22, series 2005 – It includes the BSP, GSP, PNRY, and
Anti-TB Education Drive as voluntary basis of contribution.
 Peer Supervision – It is being done to Teacher 1 and Teacher 2.
 Intensive-Guided Supervision – It is being given to new teachers in the school.
 Collaborative Supervision – It is given to teachers who prefer to work
cooperatively with the supervisor in developing a supervision form.
 Registry of Qualified Applicants – It refers to the list of applicants deemed to
have met the qualifications required by law based on the evaluation and selection
guidelines for teacher positions in the elementary and secondary public schools.
 Management – It is a way the principals use themselves to create a school
climate characterized by staff productivity, pupil productivity and creative
thought.
 Managerial Acumen – It is the systematic application of an array of skills that
provide an orderly, efficient and effective school environment.
 Potential – This takes into account the employee’s capability not only to perform
the duties and assume the responsibilities of the position to be filled but also to
those of higher and more responsible positions.
 School Climate – It refers to the sum of all values, cultures, safety practices and
organizational structures within a school that cause it to function and react in
particular ways.
 Alternative Learning System (ALS) – It is a parallel learning system to provide
a viable alternative to the existing formal education.
 Quality Education – It is an appropriateness, relevance and excellence of the
education given to meet the needs and aspirations of an individual in a society.
 DepEd Subsidized Program – It is known as the pre-school education funded by
the PTA and other organizations.
 Principle of Shared Governance – It is the principle which recognizes that every
unit in the education bureaucracy has a particular role, task and responsibility
inherent in the office.
 Inferring – It the process of reading between the lines or drawing of implications.
 School-Based Management – It enables and empowers stakeholders to manage
their own affairs for improved delivery of educational services in a sustainable
manner.
 Accountability Mechanism – It is the criteria and quality dimensions of the
school-based management that includes resourcing, classroom structuring and
pupil/student achievement.
 Crisis Management – It is a term generally applied to critical situation, a turning
point characterized by a sense of urgency.
 Threat – An element of crisis management which is a potential hindrance to
some state of goal desired by an organization or individual.
 Decision – This element of crisis management refers to time in short when the
situation will be altered in the near future after which no decision can be made
only under less favorable circumstances.
 Surprise – The element of crisis management which refers to lack of self-
awareness by those affected by the crisis, is likely to occur, but is not equated
with the lack of planned response to the situation.
 Brainstorming – It involves the spontaneous identification of alternatives by
individuals interacting in an unrestrained setting.
 Synectics – This is a creativity technique that involves the identification of novel
alternatives through the joining together of different and apparently irrelevant
elements.
 Normal Grouping – It is the identification of alternatives through a highly
structured procedure that purposely attempts to restrict verbal interaction.
 School Plant – It refers to the school facilities of the school consisting of the site,
buildings and other structures.
 Republic Act 9155, Section 14 – It refers to the implementing rules and
regulations known as Authority, Responsibility and Accountability (AuRA).
 Technical Competencies – This refers to the development of the curriculum and
supervision to ensure the full implementation of the curriculum.
 Human Resource Competencies – This refers to the role of the principal on the
collaborative method which is complex and it involves many variables; issues
deal with human factor affecting the staff, attitudes and perception of the staffs,
climate conducive to productive work and emphasis on interpersonal issues.
 Political Competencies – It is a role which refers to limited resources, principals
will either have to use for some resources; the principal develops ways to
collaborate and cooperate in sharing those resources.
 Architectural Competencies – This is the process by which the administrators
use to frame/construct roles and relationships that will allow organizations to get
things down.
 Bank – It refers to World Bank (WB), the lending agency for the NPSBE Project.
 National Program Support to Basic Education (NPSBE) – A 200 million US
dollars program support loan secured by the government from the World Bank to
finance in part of the various key reform thrusts outlined in the BESRA.
 Support to the Philippine Basic Education Reforms (SPHERE) – A grant fund
from the Australian AID Trust Fund amounting to 41 million Au$.
 School Based Management – The decentralization of decision-making authority
from central, regional, and division levels to the individual schools with the intent
bringing together the school heads, teachers, students as well as the parents, the
local government units, and the community at large in bringing improved learning
outcomes through effective schools.
 Grant – The funding facility authorized to be used by the schools in SBM
operations, also known as the SBM Support and Installation Fund or the SBM
Grant.
 School Improvement Plan – An education development plan that shows the
intent and design that the schools will undertake to introduce improvements in
learning outcomes within the context of SBM in prescribed period and at a given
cost.
 Annual Improvement Plan – It identifies the problems and objectives for one
school year and the intervention programs that include strategies and learning
activities, time frame for implementing the activities, persons responsible, and
resources needed which are appropriate to achieve the objectives set.
 Qualified Recipient Schools – These are public elementary and secondary
schools with grant applications submitted to their respective Division Offices and
found to be eligible under the terms and conditions of this set of guidelines.
 Eligible Activities and Expenditure Items – These are activities and expenditure
items within the parameters set out in the NPSBE Loan Agreement and which are
recognized as reimbursable by the World Bank.
 School Grant Proposal – A school program/or project proposal that primarily
focuses on the development of ideal or educationally maximal learning
environment for children based on the accepted/approved SIP/AIP submitted to
the Division Office that outlines a proposed project and shows budgetary
requirements and requests monetary assistance in the form of a grant.
 Implementing Units – It refers to the secondary schools that maintain separate
book of accounts.
 Non-implementing Units – It refers to public elementary and secondary schools
without separate book of accounts that are under the direct supervision of the
division offices.
 High Priority Divisions – These refer to the 40 highly challenged DepEd
divisions whose performance indicators have been computed as way below
standards.
 4Ps Program – It is a poverty reduction measure of the Philippine government
that focuses on human capital investment in the poorest of the poor households in
the country.
 4Ps Schools – These are public elementary schools within the municipalities
covered by the 4Ps program managed by DSWD.
 7m x 9m classroom – The conventional design of classroom to be adopted for all
public elementary and secondary schools regardless of its location and class size.
81. Department of Education Order No. 91, s. 1999 - Guidelines on the Establishment and Operation
of Integrated Schools. http://www.deped.gov.ph/orders/do-91-s-1999. Retrieved on March 27,
2017.
82. Department Order 42, s 2007. The Revised Guidelines on Selection, Promotion and Designation
of School Heads.