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Objectives
Revisit the Class Organization Standard Parameters
by Grade level; and
Discuss the standard on hours for work as contained in
RA 4670, Section 13. Teaching Hours Magna Carta for
Public School Teachers;
Discuss teaching load and assignment by learning area in
the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum
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Hours of Work
Sec. 13. Teaching Hours. – Any teacher engaged in
actual classroom instruction shall not be required to
render more than six hours of actual classroom
teaching a day, which shall be so scheduled as to
give him time for the preparation and correction of
exercises and other work incidental to his normal
teaching duties: Provided, however, that where the
exigencies of the service so require THE SCHOOL
DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT SHALL APPOINT
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS TO FILL-IN THE
TEACHING LOAD.
IN CASES WHEREIN RENDERING OF ADDITIONAL
WORK HOURS IS DUE TO SUBSTITUTION FOR
CLASSES OF NON-REPORTING TEACHERS, THE
SCHOOL DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT SHALL
ALSO APPOINT SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS IF THE
ABSENCE OR VACANCY WILL EXCEED FOR MORE
THAN TWO (2) WEEKS.
HOUSE BILL NO. 8384
AN ACT STRENGTHENING
AND EXPANDING THE
PROFESSIONAL RIGHTS AND
WORK INCENTIVES OF
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS,
AMENDING FOR THE
PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO.
4670, TO BE KNOWN AS THE
EXPANDED MAGNA CARTA
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHERS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
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Hours of Work
Under Section 5, Rule XVII of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Book V of Executive
Order No. 292, all government officials and employees are required to render
eight working hours a day for five days a week, or a total of 40 hours a week
excluding time for lunch. The normal working hours shall be from 8 AM to 12 NN,
and 1 PM to 5 PM.
1. Public school teachers are not exempt from rendering services of 8 hours per
workday;
2. However, a mechanism exists allowing teachers to render 6-hours actual teaching
work inside the school campus and may perform the remaining 2-hours
outside the school for teaching-related activities, provided that all
requirements of the law are complied with;
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Hours of Work
3. DepED Memorandum No. 291 s. 2008 and DepEd Order No. 16 s.
2009 allows teachers to render 6-hours actual teaching work inside the
school campus and to spend the remaining 2-hours per day outside of
the school campus to prepare and perform the following;
•lesson plans, action/work plans, instructional materials,
evaluation/assessment of rubrics;
•preparation and checking of exercises, recording of academic performance
and classroom accomplishments; .
•conduct of research;
•attendance to seminars, workshops, and similar programs; -counseling,
mentoring, coaching of students including home visits.
•consultation and conferences with parents;
•performance of coordination activities and recognized community social
services; and
•participation in the improvement and maintenance of school facilities
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Hours of Work
4. The mechanism for the above mentioned 2-hours work done by
teachers outside the school premises shall be agreed by the principal
with the teachers, parents, and students, preferably through the
School Governing Council or any established mechanism for school
community partnership;
6. To address concerns relative to proper entries on the Daily Time
Record, the duly approved Monthly Plan shall likewise be an
authority for teachers after rendering 6-hour actual teaching to
leave the campus on official time.
5. To ensure that the teachers fulfill the 2-hours for teaching-related
tasks, each teacher shall prepare a Monthly Plan of Activities to carry-
out these tasks to be approved by the school principal. The enclosed
suggested template for the “Monthly Plan of Activities to Perform
Teaching-Related Tasks” may be used and
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Hours of Work
7. It is being clarified that the actual teaching load refers to the time a
teacher has been scheduled to hold classes in a given school day. In
cases where class meetings are not scheduled on a daily basis, the 6 hours
actual teaching shall be deemed fulfilled once the total teaching-
learning activities facilitated by the teachers’ totals 30 hours or (1,800
minutes) per week;
8. A teacher assigned as a class adviser or who handles individual assignments such
as, but not limited to; school paper moderator, gets a one or more hours load
credit. A teacher assigned to do multiple special advisorships shall be entitled to a
one-hour load credit. This means that class advisers or teachers with individual
assignments equivalent to one (1) hour shall facilitate teaching-learning activities for 5-
hours per day.
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Class Organization Standard Parameters
Level
Class Organization
Teacher
Specialization
Factor
Remarks
Minimu
m
Maxim
um
Rounded
Half
< or = 100
Enrolment
,
+1 class if
excess is
greater
than:
Class Organization Teacher Specialization
Elemen
tary
Kindergarten 25 30 15 10 0.5
25 learners per class, maximum
of 30
1 Teacher per 2 sessions
Grade 1 30 35 18 10 1.0
30 learners per class, maximum
of 35
1 Teacher per class
Grade 2 30 35 18 10 1.0
30 learners per class, maximum
of 35
1 Teacher per class
Grade 3 30 35 18 10 1.2
30 learners per class, maximum
of 35
7 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 4 40 45 23 10 1.2
40 learners per class, maximum
of 45
7 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 5 40 45 23 10 1.2
40 learners per class, maximum
of 45
7 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 6 40 45 23 10 1.2
40 learners per class, maximum
of 45
7 Teachers for every 6
classes
Multigrade - 25 - 1.0
Max of 25 learners of two
consecutive levels
Max of 3 Teachers for
every multi-grade school
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Class Organization Standard Parameters
Level
Class Organization
Teacher
Specialization
Factor
Remarks
Mini
mum
Maximu
m
Rounded
Half
< or = 100
Enrolment,
+1 class if
excess is
greater than:
Class Organization Teacher Specialization
Junior
High
School
Grade 7 40 45 23 10 1.5
40 learners per class,
maximum of 45
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 8 40 45 23 10 1.5
40 learners per class,
maximum of 45
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 9 40 45 23 10 1.5
40 learners per class,
maximum of 45
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 10 40 45 23 10 1.5
40 learners per class,
maximum of 45
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Senior
High
School
Grade 11 40 40 20 10 1.5 40 learners per class
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Grade 12 40 40 20 10 1.5 40 learners per class
9 Teachers for every 6
classes
Non-
Graded
Elem/JH
S
15 8 1.0 15 learners per class 1 Teacher per class
