Teachers insist on guidebooks
FOR UNOFFICIAL REFERENCE
THE Department of Education (DepEd) may have ordered the recall and suspension of the teacher’s guidebook produced by the provincial government but the teachers in the province insist on using it as a reference albeit unofficially.
Governor Amado Espino Jr., speaking during the weekly breakfast forum “Kapihan” of the Pangasinan Press and Radio Club at the Star Plaza Hotel on Wednesday, said it was the teachers themselves who insisted on using the books because they know these were prepared by experts who came from their own ranks.
DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus earlier questioned the legitimacy of the books, ordered a review of its contents, and the two schools superintendents were reprimanded by being re-assigned to lower postings.
“I ordered the recall of the guidebooks but not even one returned these,” Espino said, adding that the report that came to him showed that all the teachers are already using these beginning the start of the school year in June.
The guidebooks, produced by master teachers under the supervision of the two school divisions of Pangasinan with funding support from the provincial government, are now being used extensively by public school teachers throughout the province.
The teachers, he said, begged him that they beallowed to keep and use the guidebooks even at the risk of being reprimanded as well by the DepEd.
The teachers’ guidebooks are intended as a teaching aid for English, Mathematics and Science.
The top advocates- Armando Aquino and Alma Ruby Torio, who were then serving as schools superintendents of Pangasinan, were re-assigned to smaller school divisions for authorizing preparation of the guidebook for the use of public school teachers in the province initially.
Aquino, who is also a lawyer, opted for early retirement while Torio is now serving as head of the Dagupan City Schools division.
Espino said he allowed the province to sponsor the writing and publication of the guidebooks to ensure uniformity of instruction among all public elementary schools across the province.
He maintained that DepEd was duly informed about the project through the DepEd regional director when the recall order was ostensibly caused by the absence of clearance from the both the regional and the national office. —LM
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