{"id":20807,"date":"2019-09-05T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20807"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:13:14","slug":"non-teaching-duties-bill-abolishes-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/non-teaching-duties-bill-abolishes-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolish non-teaching duties, bill filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov.ph\/members\/search.php?id=tutor-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristine Alexie Tutor<\/a> has filed a bill, which aims to remove all non-teaching responsibilities from faculty members\u2019 to-do lists.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly filed \u201cSchool Health and Safety Act\u201d aims to ease the work of teachers in public schools, as it is common knowledge that they are often burdened with tasks much beyond their teaching capabilities.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ms. Tutor has also expressed her desire to start establishing School Health and Safety Offices (SHSO) across public schools in order to alleviate the task list of teachers.<\/strong> SHSO will be responsible for addressing problems related to health and stress in schools and will allow teachers to focus better on their teaching duties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non-teaching duties put additional pressure on educators<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philipines has been actively working on bettering the educational system. Recent examples include Senator Cayetan\u2019s recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/inclusive-education-bill-pia-cayetano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inclusive education bill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The bill proposed by Ms. Tutor is another step forward, this time looking to better the work environment for teachers.<\/strong> Removing non-teaching duties will allow educators to focus on their primary task of providing quality classes and lessons to their students.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the need for health and safety guidance in schools is undeniable, teachers are often overloaded with tasks that stretch far beyond the curriculum.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ms.Tutor is also moving to provide additional staff to school with campus-attendance of more than a thousand (1000) students.<\/strong> According to her, such big schools need dedicated medical team, school psychologists, and dentists.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pushing the necessity to relieve educators of non-teaching duties, Ms. Tutor accentuated that campuses with more than three thousand students (3000) could use additional help, beyond the establishment of SHSO.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Kristine Alexie Tutor has filed a bill, which aims to remove all non-teaching responsibilities from faculty members\u2019 to-do lists.\u00a0 The newly filed \u201cSchool Health and Safety Act\u201d aims to ease the work of teachers in public schools, as it is common knowledge that they are often burdened with tasks much beyond their teaching capabilities.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}