Angara forms task force to review teachers' evaluation scheme, workload

Teachers attend to their classrooms in their first face-to-face classes at the Francisco Legaspi Memorial School in Pasig City on November 2, 2022, as the Department of Education implements full physical class attendance in public schools nationwide after 2 years of online and hybrid learning. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News MANILA — Education Secretary Sonny Angara has ordered the creation of a task force that would review the Results-Based Performance Management System (RBPMS) as well as teachers' workload.

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Under DepEd Memorandum Order No. 37 that Angara signed on Friday, July 26, a task force would be created to review RBPMS' implementation in the Department of Education. It would also review and assess teachers' workload and reportorial requirements in order to avoid overload.

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"The review and assessment shall streamline, improve, and simplify processes and requirements of the performance management system, and preparation of reportorial requirements of teachers," the DepEd order said.

The task force would be composed of an advisory board and a technical working group.

DepEd's task force is required to submit within 3 months "a comprehensive policy recommendation to the Office of the Secretary."

Last month, President Ferdinand Marcos suspended the implementation of RBPMS and Performance-Based Incentive (PBI) System in a bid to streamline and harmonize the 2 systems.

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A DepEd document described RBPMS as a "shared undertaking between the superior and the employee that allows an open discussion of job expectations, key results areas, objectives and how these align to overall departmental goals."

The Teachers' Dignity Coalition (TDC) had earlier appealed to DepEd to abolish the "burdensome" RBPMS and instead "return to a simpler, fairer performance evaluation system akin to the former Performance Appraisal System for Teachers (PAST)."

Angara formally took over DepEd on July 19 following the resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte a month earlier. 

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