In line with its efforts to continuously invest in teachers’ professional development for quality education, the Department of Education (DepEd) will turn over a modernized teachers’ facility and professional development programs for teachers to the incoming administration.
“Winning the education’s battle for equality will take many years of work for us in the education sector, but ultimately, our teachers will be at the frontlines of this fight,” Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones said in a statement issued Monday, June 13.
“As we work towards our goal of improving quality through Sulong EduKalidad, we recognize the urgent need to upskill and reskill our teachers so that they will be equipped to meet the changing standards, landscapes, and context of basic education,” she added.
DepEd inaugurated last week the newly-renovated and modernized National Educators’ Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) Facility in Baguio Teacher's Camp, Baguio City.
Transformed from the old facility, the modernized NEAP building features conference rooms equipped with a fast internet connection, a cafeteria, a library, and interactive rooms to serve teachers and school leaders who participate in in-service professional development programs of the Department.
As part of the broader NEAP transformation reforms anchored on the Teachers’ Upskilling pillar of the Sulong EduKalidad program of the Briones administration, the modernized NEAP facility will be turned over to the next administration along with professional development programs for teachers.