National competency-Based Teacher Satandards

Improving the teaching-learning process is very significant so that the vision to have an ideal graduate will be achieved. Through an effective teaching, we can have all this. But how can we have an effective teaching?
The answer to that question would be the National Competency-Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS). This integrated theoretical framework serves as a guide for teachers on how their teachings become effective. This will also help the all types of students to learn the different learning goals in the curriculum. Not only could the fast learners learn a lot but also the slow learners.
Is it really hard to teach effectively?
The effective teaching would not be complicated given that the NCBTS is now here. This will help all the teachers to teach effectively. We do accept as true that if this paradigm will be used by the all the teachers in the varied areas of the country, the students will become more competitive most particularly that this paradigm has seven domains (social regard for learning; learning environment; diversity of learners; curriculum; planning, assessing and reporting; community linkages; and personal growth and development) which will surely help to enhance the student learning.
Let us have a discussion first about the worst issues in the field of education. Nowadays, there are many teachers who are promoted to the higher ranks. But do they deserve the said promotion? Some of them are promoted because of their numbers of years in the service of teaching regardless their ineffective teaching. It is maybe because of the preferential treatment of those who are in the authority regarding to this matter, which is irrational. Sometimes, their focus is not already in teaching their students but to the promotion that they are aiming for. Therefore, in promoting the teachers to the higher ranks, it must be well-checked on how effective they are in their performance in teaching before the other qualifications of promotion will follow. It must not only in promotion alone but also during hiring, supervision and other policies related to the teaching profession. Teachers are the molder of the young minds, and they can’t mold them well if they are ineffective.
This new paradigm is quite different with the traditional view. It means there was a modification made to meet the modern trends of education. Teaching, in traditional view, is a technical process and the good qualities of it was well-defined while in the NCBTS view, teaching is facilitating learning and the qualities of good teacher are defined in terms of whether the students learn or not. Although both views aim to improve the learning of the students, NCBTS is more ideal since it focuses more in the teaching-learning process but not the technical one.
Since NCBTS is a good instrument to have effective teachers, it must be well-supported by those people who are also responsible to it: the school principals, school heads, supervisors, superintendents, parents and others. If there would be a collaboration of the mentioned personnel there would more improvement in teaching practices.
It was suggested that the teacher institutions, like Philippine Normal University (PNU), shall use this to design and implement effective pre-service education curricula. It is very much ideal because while they are still in the education institution, they are already trained on how to teach effectively. Teaching is said to be responsible for facilitating learning. And the most responsible or the agents of this are the teachers. That is why teachers and would-be-teachers must know about NCBTS so that they can improve their techniques in teaching. Through improving one’s techniques, there would be a better student learning.
Thus, the NCBTS must be used to have ideal graduates who are expected to be the instrument to have a better world.