VICE President Sara Duterte-Carpio on Friday commended the Research Center for Teacher Quality for producing the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers.

“Let me start by congratulating the men and women of the Research Center for Teacher Quality or RCTQ for its 10 fruitful years of work in the field of research with the primary goal of enhancing teacher quality in the country,” Duterte-Carpio said during the RCTQ’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Rizal Park Hotel in Pasay City.

The Philippine Normal University and its partners, the University of New England and the Australian Agency for International Development, forged a partnership that resulted in the creation of the RCTQ.

Duterte said the RCTQ invested over three years of research and consultations to produce the Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers which was formally adopted and implemented by DepEd in 2017.

The RCTQ spent three more years of research and validation to produce the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads and Supervisors. These standards were adopted by DepEd in 2020.

“Through RCTQ’s help in embedding these standards in our human resource systems, DepEd is now able to issue more informed policies on teacher hiring, promotion and career progression, teacher professional development, and rewards and recognition,” Duterte-Carpio said.

She briefly discussed the Basic Education Development Plan 2030 launched by former Education Secretary Leonor Briones, with technical assistance from UNICEF and the Philippine Business for Education.

The BEDP 2030 is the first long-term plan for basic education which serves as a strategic roadmap for improving the quality of basic education.

“Today, there is no room for complacency at DepEd. As promised in the Basic Education Development Plan 2030, DepEd will be enabled by modern, efficient, and nimble governance and management processes,” Duterte-Carpip said.

“However, there is plenty of room for partners and collaborators who wish to help us implement reforms in our basic education sector,” she added.