THE DEPARTMENT of Education aims to further improve the quality of learning by providing public school teachers a broad range of professional development programs and courses recognized by the National Educators Academy of the Philippines.

The department issued a memorandum laying down the guidelines on the registration of teachers and school leaders for NEAP-recognized development programs and courses.

“We are going to change the content of the program of NEAP because if we want to transform the quality of learners, we have to transform NEAP. If we want to teach the learners new things, then the teachers will have to be the first to learn a new manner of teaching,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said.

“To make learning real and to understand it better, relate it to the real world and to the things that learners are interested in,” Briones added.

Those who can access the development programs are teachers and leaders who are holding permanent items, have no pending administrative, civil or criminal cases and have not been found guilty of any violations.

The participants must be willing to sign and commit to the provisions of the NEAP-recognized Professional Development Contract and willing to undertake a NEAP-PDP Action Plan.

Once participants complete the program, NEAP will provide them the certificates indicating the total professional development credit units earned during the session.