No more lesson logs? Not true

The Department of Education has not revoked an order requiring teachers to make daily lesson logs but Education Secretary Leonor Briones is willing to hold consultations to address teachers’ concerns on the matter.

Briones’ chief of staff, lawyer Nepomuceno Malaluan, said the DepEd has no idea why a teachers’ group issued a statement lauding the supposed lifting of the department order.

ACT Teachers party-list earlier said the requirement of a daily lesson log for teachers was an “unnecessary hardship” that took away their time for developing teaching aids.

Malaluan said the education secretary was not turning a deaf ear to the teachers’ concerns.

“She knows this is an issue that is very close to the heart of the teachers. It concerns their work and she would not want to be seen as not heeding the concerns raised,” he said in a press briefing.

Briones is looking into the issue very seriously even as she is attending to more pressing concerns.

Her priority is the transition to the K-12 Basic Education Program, including the establishment of the baseline of the status of the education sector at the time of the transition, he said.

She also has to devote her attention to preparing the DepEd’s budget proposal for 2017, he said.