LET Takers Not BestAnd Brightest Says DepEd Executive Director
LET TAKERS PASSING RATE – According to Runvi Manguerra, executive director of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Teacher Education Council, those who want to be teachers aren’t the best and brightest.
The Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) is aspiring teachers’ final step toward practicing their profession. However, it recently had a low passing rate. This was noted by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian during the Senate committee on education.
Furthermore, Gatchalian reminded Manguerra regarding the mandate to create policies aimed to better the quality of teacher education. Meanwhile, Manguerra highlighted the “very low” percentage of centers of execellence and centers for development in the Philippines was only 5%.
Moreover, the DepEd official explained that the low passing rate in the LET was primarily due to “the kind of students we have in the college of education”.
According to Manguerra, “those who are attracted to the Teacher Education Institutions are not the best and the brightest”. But, he did emphasizes that there are “a few good students”.
Meanwhile, to address the problem, Manguerra noted that the counil proposed an organization that develops the teaching profession as early as senior high school. Additionally, he confirmed that this would be a “separate qualifier” for education students.
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