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COTABATO CITY ---The
Department of Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(DepEd-ARMM) will fill all teaching positions in the nine schools divisions in
the region in the first quarter of this year.
ARMM
Governor Mujiv Hataman said all the teachers’ appointment papers and deployment
orders would be signed by the end of the first quarter.
Last
January 15, Governor Hataman signed the appointments and deployments of 75
additional teachers in Maguindanao province.
Atty.
Rasol Mitmug, Jr., newly appointed DepEd-ARMM Secretary, told the newly hired
teachers: “Sana maging daan kayong mga guro na matulungan ang mga batang magsumikap
sa pagaaral dahil maraming kabataan ang umaasa na magkaroon ng maayos at
dekalidad na edukasyon.”
The
new teachers passed a rigorous screening process before they were hired and
will be deployed to various public schools in the province.
For
newly hired Sahira Kalipapa, the distance between her home and her school
assignment may be challenging, but she is more excited to help her students. A
30-year-old resident of Datu Paglas North, she will be deployed to Darampua
Elementary School in Sultan sa Barongis, an hour away from her place.
“Wala
pong kaso sa akin ang layo, ang mahalaga po sa akin ay makatulong sa mga
estudyante sa sarili kong probinsya,” Sahira said. Overwhelmed with joy as
she signed her deployment order, she added: “It’s an answered prayer po.
Sobrang saya po na finally teacher na po ako.”
“Ang
sarap po sa pakiramdam dahil alam naming na dumaan ito sa tamang proseso.
Libu-libo ang applicants nakasabay ko dito at Masaya ako na napabilang
ako sa mga newly hired teachers,” she said.
Sahira
said that she never thought of applying to other places outside the ARMM. “Mas
pipiliin ko parin po ang lugar naming dahil mas kailangan po kami sa lugar namin,” she
added.
Applicants
for teaching positions in the ARMM have to go through the Assessment and
Competency Examination for Teachers in the ARMM that includes a panel interview
and a teaching demonstration to evaluate their aptitude and proficiency for
teaching. The process is meant to promote quality education in the region.
Governor
Hataman said it helps guarantee that only qualified teachers will be hired. On
January 4 this year, the appointment papers and deployment orders of the 192
public school teachers in Sulu were signed by the governor.
“Our
goal is to fill in all the teaching vacancies in the first quarter of the
year,” he said. “Nandito kayo hindi dahil sa kung sino ang nag-recommend sayo,
nandito kayo dahil dumaan kayo sa tamang proseso at alam naming na qualified kayo,”
he said.
To
date, the ARMM has 25,000 teaching and non-teaching personnel. The region is
composed of nine schools divisions that include the divisions of Maguindanao I
and II, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur I and II, Lamitan City, Basilan, Sulu, and
Tawi-tawi. (Bureau of Public Information–
ARMM / MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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