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D.O. 002, s. 2024

General FAQs

Immediate Removal of Administrative

Tasks of Public School Teachers
What is D.O. 002, s. 2024?

The Department Order 002, s. 2024

provides the guidelines on the
immediate removal of
administrative tasks of
public school teachers
to enable them to maximize their
time in actual classroom teaching.

With this endeavor, they shall be

able to focus on the teaching and
learning process and become
effective facilitators of learning.

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 COVERAGE

The Department Order 002, s. 2024 covers

all DepEd-employed teachers
engaged in classroom teaching, on a
full-time basis, under permanent,
provisional, or substitute status in all
public elementary and secondary
schools.

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 REDEFINING
Teacher Ancillary Tasks and
Administrative Tasks
Teacher Ancillary Tasks
refer to work incidental to the
teachers’ normal teaching duties,
such as preparation of lesson plans,
checking of exercises and
summative tests, etc.
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Administrative Tasks
refer to tasks related to the effective
and efficient operations of schools
or programs, projects, and services
which are not directly related to
teaching and academic learning.
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 DO 002, s. 2024
The Policy on the Immediate
Removal of Administrative Tasks of
Public School Teachers

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 ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS
What are Administrative Tasks?
These are tasks related to the effective and efficient
operations of schools or programs, projects, and
services which are not directly related to teaching
and academic learning.

What are considered Administrative Tasks?

Administrative Tasks include the following:
a. Personnel Administration;
b. Property/Physical Facilities Custodianship;
c. General Administrative Support;
d. Financial Management;
e. Records Management; and
f. Program Management.

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 ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS
Who are responsible to perform
the Administrative Tasks?
School Heads and non-teaching personnel
have the responsibility to perform
administrative tasks in schools.

What if there are no non-teaching

personnel in schools?
To augment the non-teaching personnel
requirements of schools, the following
measures may be implemented by SDOs:
a. clustering of deployed non-teaching
personnel; and
b. hiring of personnel under Contract of
Service (COS) or Job Order (JO).

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 EFFECTIVITY & SUPPORT
When shall the policy take effect?
The policy shall take effect immediately. However,
schools are given a transitory period of sixty (60)
days after issuance.
60
DAYS
What support shall be provided to schools
within the transition period?
The following support mechanisms shall be provided by SDOs for schools
to ensure that a smooth transition shall take place:

ü Clustering of schools, ü Ensuring of immediate transfer

with each cluster being composed
of a maximum of three (3) schools;
ü Deployment of administrative
support personnel
to perform administrative tasks for
the clustered schools;
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and turnover of existing
administrative tasks
performed by teachers to school
heads and non-teaching personnel;
ü Provision of assistance in the
hiring of additional Administrative
Support personnel, if necessary.
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 TRANSITION GUIDE
for Regional Offices

PREPARATION OF
MONITORING &
REGIONAL IMPLEM
EVALUATION
PLAN
to support the objectives of of the implementation of
the policy SDOs and Schools including
workload audit

Responsibility of Responsibility of
ROs ROs

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 TRANSITION GUIDE
for School Division Offices

ACCEPTANCE ENSURING AND

CLUSTERING OF ADDITIONAL ASSISTING MONITORING
MOOE SCHOOLS
of non-teaching from Regional Offices for in the hiring of of hiring process
personnel additional funds for hiring Administrative Support
of Administrative Support Staff
Staff

Responsibility of Responsibility of Responsibility of Responsibility of

SDOs SDOs SDOs SDOs in coordination
with School Heads

Note: There will be supplementary tools to be released in support

of the hiring and monitoring of Administrative Support Staff

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 TRANSITION GUIDE
for Schools

TRANSITION &
ORIENTATION HIRING
TURN-OVER
of the DO 002, s 2024 of administrative tasks of additional non-teaching
and documents personnel, if applicable
Responsibility of the Responsibility of Responsibility of the
School Heads Teachers School Heads

Refer to the succeeding page for the detailed guidelines.

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 TRANSITION GUIDE
for Schools

STEPS

1 School Heads shall orient the teachers and non-teaching

personnel about the policy.

Teachers previously designated to perform administrative tasks shall turn

2 over the duties and responsibilities to School Heads or non-teaching

personnel. However, schools shall observe gradual transition ensuring
that there are no disruptions to school operation.

Once additional funds are available, the School Heads shall initiate the

3 hiring of additional administrative support staff following the

guidelines provided in the Strand Memorandum from Office of the
Undersecretary for Human Resource and Organizational Development.

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 For more information
on DO 002, s 2024, visit:

bit.ly/TeacherWorkload_ToolsandProcedure

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