Makati hiring teachers for mobile learning hubs

Teachers and educators who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic can apply to become “mobile tutors” through the Makati City government’s “Dyipni Makati” project. Under the project, mobile learning hubs will be deployed to the different barangays in the city to assist students and their parents in coping with the new “blended learning” mode when classes open on Aug. 24.

Each hub will be manned by the hired professional teachers, teaching assistants or youth volunteers who will provide tutorials. They will be equipped with laptops and internet connection, including books and supplementary materials that parents can borrow.

“This project seeks to address inadequacies that may hamper the successful implementation of the blended learning approach. It is primarily intended for students who lack gadgets and other learning tools, and parents who have difficulty guiding and teaching their children using the self-directed learning modules,” Mayor Abby Binay said in a statement.

Job opportunities

“Through this initiative, we will be able to augment the learning resources of our students and, at the same time, provide job opportunities for teachers and teaching assistants who have been displaced by the closure or downsizing of some private schools,” she added.

To register, applicants should fill out a form on bit.ly/GuroDyipniMaki.

Qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree in Education, or any related course in mathematics, science, Filipino and English; and a valid professional license for teachers for board passers.

Interested applicants, who have until Aug. 15 to send in their applications, should be willing to be assigned to any barangay in the city. They will be hired on a job order status.

City Legal Officer Michael Camiña said the project would initially need 17 elementary and 17 secondary teachers, adding that licensed teachers would get P20,000 a month “while those without licenses would get [a] lower [salary].”

Entry-level teachers in public schools receive a monthly pay of P22,316 under the first tranche of the new salary standardization law.

According to Binay, the hubs will also serve as a venue for learning and reading activities, book donation drives and other projects that promote reading in communities.

Learner’s package

To implement the blended learning approach, the city government will provide the around 80,000 public students with a learner’s package that includes printed and online modules, a daily four-hour internet load, flash drives containing learning modules and two washable face masks.

Makati officials have also promised to distribute all of the 2,500 brand-new laptops with free internet load to all public school teachers from elementary to senior high school by October, in time for World Teacher’s Day. INQ