TEACHERS PRESSURE ON PAPERWORK OVERLOAD

According to Esguerra(2018)The overworked state of public

school teachers in the Philippines is well-known. We all know that the
workload of public school teachers is not only limited to teaching but
also to other nonteaching tasks. Given this workload, actual teaching
is increasingly being sidelined by the multitude of other
responsibilities and roles that teachers play.

1. Each teacher is given multiple additional administrative or

student support responsibilities.
If we are in public school, we have to be aware already, of
having other task other than teaching.
Teaching can also be one of the most stressful, demanding, and
under supported professions, leading to national teacher strikes,
shortages, and high rates of turnover. In fact, research shows that
46% of teachers report high levels of daily stress, which affects their
health, quality of life, and of course teaching performance. “The hours
are long, the pay is poor, and the paperwork piles up quickly; it’s easy
to lose sight of why I became a teacher in the first place.” Research
consistently shows that teachers who are more stressed are less
motivated which can negatively impact students’ performance in
school.
Under the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers, every public-
school teacher has a regular full-time teaching load and is required to
commit a maximum of six hours of actual classroom instruction every
day. In actuality, each teacher is given multiple additional
administrative or student support responsibilities. These comprise
papers for seminars and trainings they've been assigned to attend, as
well as supplementary designations for student counseling, budget,
emergency response, and health.
 2. Teachers are also expected to help with the implementation of
government programs
Teachers are also expected to help with the implementation of government
programs such as mass immunizations, community mapping, conditional
cash transfers, deworming, feeding, population censuses, anti-drug
campaigns, and elections.
Sometimes, mas nafofocus na naten yung attention naten sa mga gantong
bagay.

PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC SCHOOL

1. Private schools employ administrative employees to handle
things like enrollment, registration, records, daily operations,
and cleaning services, public schools lack enough support and
administrative staff, if any at all.
This suggests that teachers in public schools are performing administrative
tasks. This is an added workload for teachers aside from their teaching
task, a condition that, while concealed from view by traditional metrics,
might degrade instructional quality. This is a factor that affects the
performance of a Technical and Vocational teacher. Instead of focusing on
the classroom and lesson preparation, the teacher spends most of the time
doing paperworks.
If teachers are to be followed, they want to focus on teaching and
have more time to speak with students, give guidance, and apply what they
learned about differentiated teaching. Teachers are fully aware of the need
to spend more time with children, innovate in the classroom, and provide
more focused individualized attention to pupils. Their primary constraint is
time.
For today’s teachers, the bar has risen. We are expected to meet
each student’s unique academic and social-emotional needs. Make
learning exciting. Analyze data. Integrate technology. The list goes on.
Solutions/Recommendations
Magna Carta for Public School Teachers states that teachers must teach
only a maximum of six hours while the remaining two hours of their shifts
should be used for other teaching-related tasks.
We’re not exempted for 8-hour workdays for government employees.
However, the DepEd said it would release an order specifying teachers
may complete the 2 hours of “teaching-related tasks” outside school
premises and that no proof of service is needed for this.
If teachers choose to work outside schools, they should not receive salary
reductions.

In the end, teachers are meant to facilitate learning. As such, they should
be models of lifelong learning, especially given the impact of emerging
technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the vastly changing job
market and the future skills required of the country’s workforce (Albert et al.
2018b).
By removing these non-teaching functions, teachers will be given a
creative space that will allow them to deliver the educational needs of the
students and implement various teaching techniques that could improve the
students.
. Following the tragic suicide of two public school teachers in
2018, the Department of Education (DepED) has vowed to reduce
teachers’ workload, details of which have remained unclear (Mateo
2018).

A. The department needs to study their human resources

shortages and the Department of Budget and Management
(DBM) should provide DepED requisite support to hire
administrative staff and deload teachers of administrative and
other duties unrelated to teaching.
 These posts will fill in for administrative tasks, such as registration
and records keeping, secretarial work for the principal’s office,
financial reporting, guidance counseling, and other additional
assignments normally distributed among regular teaching faculty.
B. Increasing plantilla positions is always a multiyear project.
While DepED is working on rationalizing its staffing pattern, a more
immediate solution at the school level is to channel offers of support
from private donors like foundations and private citizens, as well as
support from local governments toward providing administrative staff
support to schools.
C. Sometimes it is just about time management and prioritizing
tasks.
No matter how much paperwork you do, its still your choice on how
you will handle your task.
D. Deped has reduced the paperwork for teachers to help them
“focus more on teaching.” From 36 school forms, they need to
fill out only 10.
E. Two phases of DepEd’s review comprise of the creation of
simplified school forms, standardization of format, updating and
reduction of data needed in existing school forms, and making
the most of the available technology and information system.
As a result, the Department has reduced 36 common school forms to
10 official school forms, which already include forms for Senior High
School, and has streamlined processes – minimizing duplication and
redundancy of data, and diminishing time and effort spent by
teachers on work preparations.