For all teaching and non-teaching roles at the Division of Olongapo City, strict adherence to the Results-Based Performance Management System (RPMS) standards has been implemented. It ensures that employees focus on achieving the Department of Education’s vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities. Additionally, it serves as a monitoring, assessment, and performance management tool for identifying organizational and human resource development needs. These relevant emphases include the highlighted tasks and obligations of master teachers. They must write modules, mentor teachers, assist the school’s leader, and perform other tasks. To increase their instructional competency in subject matter mastery, teaching strategies, classroom management, and evaluation, master teachers must also mentor other educators. They play several tasks and responsibilities in their schools as master teachers. These included professional and personal growth, planning, assessing, and reporting learner outcomes, and instructional leadership abilities, particularly in curricular content and methodology.
Given their positions, master teachers ought to be able to lead the school, particularly in improving student academic progress. Master teachers’ instructional leadership skills demonstrated “Highly Proficient” abilities, particularly in curriculum and methodology, professional and personal development, and planning, evaluating, and reporting student results. However, one of the problems master teachers have been their incapacity to carry out instructional supervision with the required proficiency and abilities. Master teachers should attend conferences, workshops, graduate school programs, and other training to maintain professional and instructional competence.
The importance of professional standards for teachers’ growth and continuous professional development is recognized by the lifelong learning principle, outlined in DepEd Order No. 42 series 2017, sometimes referred to as the National Adoption and Implementation of the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST). It is committed to supporting educators and recognizing the unmistakable proof that better student achievement depends on having teachers of the highest caliber. Good teaching is necessary for effective learning. Raising educational standards is, therefore, crucial for long-term, sustainable nation-building. According to DepEd Order 42, master teachers are also highly qualified educators who demonstrate a deep and sophisticated understanding of the teaching and learning process, consistently perform well in their lessons, collaborate with colleagues, and provide them with support and mentoring to improve their learning and practice, and continuously strive to advance their professional knowledge and practice while taking into account their own needs as well as those of their colleagues and students. Master teachers are acknowledged as leaders in their field, contributors to the profession, and founders of partnerships and collaborations when they consistently pursue professional development and relevance in the pursuit of teaching quality and excellence, inspire the education community and stakeholders for the improvement of education provision in the Philippines, leave a lasting impression on students, colleagues, and others, and exhibit a remarkable ability to improve their own and other.
A well-rounded master teacher will have a comprehensive leadership style that integrates several leadership styles, ranking second to the principal. The goal of classroom instruction is to adhere to instructional leadership. It might be defined by how successfully its administrators and members work together. These leaders must be familiar with and knowledgeable about the educational environment. They need to encourage collaboration to enhance the school and its professional learning community. Additionally, instructional leadership is a strategy for assisting teachers with coaching, mentoring, and professional development, as well as for developing and sharing a clear student vision and goals. As a result, the community, parents, teachers, and students are among the numerous levels to which instructional leaders must answer. Teachers require an informed, inspiring, and motivating leader in the classroom.
Hence, master teachers set the standard in the classroom, school and community as well as being instructional leader, who immensely influence and inspire teachers, students and the society.
