What is CTP? In generic terminology, CTP stands for Certificate in Teaching Program in the field of the Academe. It is a particular course in which it bridges the gap of a certain profession to teach that acquired profession. Or simply an engineer, nurse, med tech, accountant, manager and other professions learn a set of teaching methodologies in which make them eligible to teach that is in line with their profession. Say that a nurse becoming a biology teacher, an engineer to teach students of engineering and etc. etc. For most of the people, CTP is an opportunity to relive their dreams because in our country today, we must admit that we have a lot of college graduates and produced a lot of competitive professional and yet there is still an influx of underemployment. It can possibly mean to them a lot of chances, credentials, and open new beginnings to earn and redeem themselves from being unemployed.

At the flow of our Educational System in this present days, CTP course is a very important tool to properly allow each aspiring individual that has another course  to become a Teacher in full circle especially now that we have a new system of education and teaching profession is really on its highest demand all around the country. In Ranking of Teachers today and now that the Philippines is offering Senior High School, there is a countrywide hiring of TEACHERS preferably those that specializes in the several strands of Senior High School. This news are like music to the ears of the CTP graduates! Why? They are more than qualified to apply and this is the very opportunity that they need to prove their acquired knowledge and skills both as a teacher and previous profession. They can practice apply everything that they learned from the baccalaureate degree up to the teaching methods they have practiced and worked hard for. Students can now experience an extraordinary teacher in front of them in their Senior High School. Most importantly, we are very much assured that they could hone a lot of young minds, muster their skills and honing their potentialities and realize things as to what field they would want to go.

Reference: http://www.edweek.org/topics/teachingprofession/

By: Ellen D. Baluyot, LPT