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‘Teacher factor’, EDCOM to assess state of teacher education institutions
By Creselda Canda-Lopez
“Our teachers play most important role in delivering quality education to our country’s learners…to produce highly qualified teachers, we need to ensure our teacher education institutions are of top quality because their graduates will join our teaching force, shape our learners’ minds, and eventually reverse education crisis we face,” Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) Edcom 2 Co-chairman Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian in press release part of its mandate of finding solutions to current learning crisis, launched first-of-its-kind profiling study that looks at state of teacher education institutions (TEIs) in the Philippines.
Edcom 2, three-year congressional body tasked with reviewing state of education system, has partnered with Research Institute for Teacher Quality (RITQ) to conduct nationwide study that will explore potential areas for research or policy interventions to improve how teachers are trained.
Study is aimed at informing Edcom 2’s recommendations on how to improve quality of pre-service teacher education in the country to “better attract best students to the profession,” according to description of Edcom 2’s priority areas on its website.
Edcom 2 and RITQ, based in Philippine Normal University, country’s flagship university for teacher education, will collect data on demographics, institutional characteristics, perceptions of current teacher-educator practices and overall status of those practices within participating institutions.
Based on study that looks at 12-year data from Professional Regulatory Commission and Commission on Higher Education (CHED), over half, or 56%, of all TEIs have performed below average in annual licensure exam for teachers in elementary and secondary education.
The 2023 study by education advocacy group Philippine Business for Education found that only 2% of schools offering teacher education can be classified as “high-performing” or those with passing rates of at least 75%.
PBed also flagged CHED for its criteria in awarding Center of Excellence (COE) and Center of Development (COD) status to schools with teacher education programs, as it found that more than 81% of COEs and 91% of CODs were not achieving high passing rates in licensure exams.
Organization said findings should prompt government to close down “consistently low-performing TEIs” and implement three-strike rule for repeaters who fail to ace test, among other recommendations.
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