A few years back, I was fortunate to attend the Firts Regional Teacher Induction Program ( TIP) in Angeles University. I served in that occasion as a Demonstration Teacher.
The Teacher Induction Program (TIP) was initiated by the Teacher Education Council (TEC) as its flagship project. It aims to design collaboration programs or projects that will enhance pre-service teachers training, in-service training, re-re-retraining, orientation and teachers development and to call upon any department, bureau office or government corporation, local government offices and agencies in area falling within their mandate.
It also strengthen the continuum of teacher preparation and development from pre-service education to training. It provide excellence in public education by enhancing teacher effectiveness through a systematic series of activities that reinforce both content and pedagogical skills of beginning teachers. It enhance the socialization process and ensure the smooth transition of beginning teachers into the school environment.
Teachers induction activity are not really new to basic education schools, administrators conduct orientation to beginning teacher.
School heads can assign master teachers to them for mentoring purposes.
Provide them with instructional supervision. Include them in professional
meetings and LAC session in both public and private schools Provide
activities that resemble more as orientation than as INDUCTION. However,
these initiatives are not institutionalized.
For School Year 2009, Teacher Education Program (TEC) of the Department of Education in collaboration with Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) covered a series of workshops with experts/subjects special lists from the teacher education institutions, consultants from DepED and the academic. The workshops focused on the (1) review of the 1996 TOS and to develop a TOS based on NCBTS, Likewise, the preparation was for the Licensure Examination for Teacher (LET) given on October 4, 2009.
By: Joan J. Quiroz | Master Teacher I | Lamao National High School | Limay, Bataan
