ESTIMATES show that 53 teaching days were lost in the school year 2023-2024 due to nonteaching tasks and activities assigned to teachers on top of the school closures due to calamities and local holidays. This is based on the preliminary findings of a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies .Teaching days, or contact time, refer to the time teachers and students spend interacting.
In January 2024, the Department of Education released DepEd Order 002, s. 2024, or the Immediate Removal of Administrative Tasks of Teachers, which prohibits schools from including administrative tasks such as personnel and records management, financial management and property custodianship, among others into the workload of teachers.Under the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers, a teacher is required to teach six hours of actual classroom teaching in a day.
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