The historical development of teacher preparation and professionalization in the Philippines can be summarized in 3 sentences:
1) Prior to Spanish colonization, education was unstructured and led by tribal leaders, mothers, and fathers, but the Spanish established the foundations of the public school system and normal schools to train teachers beginning in the 1800s.
2) Under American rule in the early 1900s, the Department of Instruction was created and the Philippine Normal School was established to provide free primary education and address shortages of trained teachers.
3) Since the mid-1900s, teacher professionalization has advanced through establishing the National Teachers Board, requiring licensing exams, and improving pre-service education, teaching standards, and teachers'
The historical development of teacher preparation and professionalization in the Philippines can be summarized in 3 sentences:
1) Prior to Spanish colonization, education was unstructured and led by tribal leaders, mothers, and fathers, but the Spanish established the foundations of the public school system and normal schools to train teachers beginning in the 1800s.
2) Under American rule in the early 1900s, the Department of Instruction was created and the Philippine Normal School was established to provide free primary education and address shortages of trained teachers.
3) Since the mid-1900s, teacher professionalization has advanced through establishing the National Teachers Board, requiring licensing exams, and improving pre-service education, teaching standards, and teachers'
The historical development of teacher preparation and professionalization in the Philippines can be summarized in 3 sentences:
1) Prior to Spanish colonization, education was unstructured and led by tribal leaders, mothers, and fathers, but the Spanish established the foundations of the public school system and normal schools to train teachers beginning in the 1800s.
2) Under American rule in the early 1900s, the Department of Instruction was created and the Philippine Normal School was established to provide free primary education and address shortages of trained teachers.
3) Since the mid-1900s, teacher professionalization has advanced through establishing the National Teachers Board, requiring licensing exams, and improving pre-service education, teaching standards, and teachers'
1996 Pre-Hispanic Spanish Era American Regime Period •The EDCOM report indicated that high dropout rates especially in the •In 1901, the Philippine rural areas were significantly marked commission enacted into law which was probably caused by •Free public Schools were inadequacy of preparation; it also the Act 74, and created the established by virtue of revealed the inadequacy of programs •Information and Educational Decree of 1863 Department of Instruction and the poor access to special education (SPED) brought about by Unstructured •Educational Decree of 1863 •Department of Instruction laid the foundations of the public the limited number of special schools and SPED center in the country; and provided for normal school run Education by Jesuits to educate male schools system and offered it revealed also that the disruptions in class schedules and length of school free primary education for teachers in Manila. year correlates with less learning and Filipinos less quality •No Structured •In 1875, Normal schools for •Due to shortage of teachers, the •Creation of Commission on Philippine Commission authorized women teachers were Educational the Secretary of Public Instruction Higher Education, and development of HEIs established. to bring to the Philippines 600 system •In 1765, a Royal Decree was teachers from USA, which were •Professionalization of teachers and Thomasites. teaching through the creation of the sent by King Charles of Spain National Teachers Board under the •Act of 74 of 1901 provided for the Regulatory Commission (PRC) which requiring each village to have establishment of Philippine Normal •Tribal leaders,mothers a "maestro". School in Manila; and is an institution is tasked with giving periodic tests as prerequisite for licensing and and fathers served as •in 1772, another Royal for the training of teachers. certification of teaching competencies. teachers Decree specified the •In 1928, PNS became a junior college offering two-year program to •Creation of and clear career service qualifications of teachers. graduates of secondary schools. In paths for promotions and career planning 1949, the PNS was then renamed to for teachers and administrators •It was not until 1863, there was Philippine Normal College, and then a specific attempt to offered the four-year Bachelor of • Improvement in teachers' welfare systematize and update the Science in Elementary Education. and benefits Improvement and •Teacher preparation became four strengthening of pre-service service education of Filipino Teachers years only in 1949 and thereafter. education