Teacher Incentives and Merit Awards

Professional Teacher Benefits

• Graduates receiving a diploma of merit gain merit points, aiding in salary adjustments and promotions.
• They are prioritized for government scholarships and other benefits as determined by the board.
• Incentives are extended to teachers involved in invention, new teaching methods, writing books, or creating artistic works.

Registration Requirements

• The Board for Professional Teachers will maintain a published roster of registered teachers, including their registration dates and personal details.
• After two years of the law's enactment, only registered professional teachers can teach at pre-school, elementary, or secondary levels.
• Licenses may be issued without examination in specific cases:
  • Holders of a certificate of eligibility from the Civil Service Commission and CHED.
  • Registered professional teachers recognized by the National Board for Teachers under P.D. 1006.
  • Elementary or secondary teachers with five years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Education.
  • Teachers with three years of experience and a Master's degree in Education.

Special Permits and Penalties

• Teachers must register within two years of the Board's establishment to avoid being issued a temporary special permit.
• Those failing the licensure exam can work as para-teachers.
• Violations of the law result in fines (₱5,000 to ₱20,000) or imprisonment (6 months to 5 years), at the court's discretion.

Quality Education and Teaching Profession

• The law aims to professionalize teaching and authorize the Professional Regulations Commission to administer licensure exams.
• Effective teaching is essential for educational reform, addressing broader issues within the system.
• Teachers significantly influence student development and are crucial for the nation's future.
• The EDCOM report of 1991 highlights the importance of well-trained teachers, noting many lack minimum qualifications necessary for effective teaching.### Irregular Verbs: Forms and Examples
• Irregular verbs do not follow standard conjugation rules.
• Each irregular verb has three forms: base form, past tense, and past participle.

Common Irregular Verbs

• Come: came, come
• Break: broke, broken
• Seek: sought, sought
• Cut: cut, cut
• Be: was/were, been

Grouped by Patterns

Changes in Vowel Sounds

• Arise: arose, arisen
• Awake: awoke, awaken
• Begin: began, begun

Consistent Past Forms

• Bet: bet, bet
• Cut: cut, cut
• Put: put, put

Notable Irregular Forms

• Bear: bore, born/borne
• Choose: chose, chosen
• Drive: drove, driven
• Eat: ate, eaten

Unique Past Tense Forms

• Bid: bid/bade, bidden
• Lend: lent, lent
• Kneel: knelt, knelt

Forms with Multiple Variants

• Get: got, gotten/got
• Forgive: forgave, forgiven
• String: strung, strung

Verbs with Same Base and Past Form

• Read: read, read
• Put: put, put
• Cost: cost, cost

More Irregularities

• Begin: began, begun
• Lie: lay, lain
• Sit: sat, sat

Miscellaneous Irregular Forms

• Swim: swam, swum
• Win: won, won
• Write: wrote, written

Summary

• Understanding these conjugation patterns is essential for effective communication and writing in English.
• Memorizing these irregular verbs can streamline learning and usage in both speech and writing contexts.### Descriptive Adjectives
• Descriptive adjectives provide details about nouns, such as size, color, and charm.
• Example: "The charming woman is my aunt."

Proper Adjectives

• Proper adjectives are derived from proper nouns and indicate nationality, language, or culture.
• Example: "Persian carpets are on sale at the mall."

Nouns That Modify Nouns

• Nouns can also function as modifiers for other nouns, specifying their type or category.
• Example: "Here is your history book."

Phrases and Clauses Modifying Nouns

• Phrases and clauses can modify nouns, providing additional information.
• Example: "The girl watching television is my sister."

Relative Pronouns

• Clauses that modify nouns often use relative pronouns like "that," "which," "who," "whom," "whose," and "where."
• Example: "The man who is driving the car is my father."

Adverbs

• Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs and provide context like manner, time, place, frequency, and negation.
• Examples of adverbs include: fast, slowly, well, very.

Functions of Adverbs

• Adverbs answer questions: "How?", "Where?", "When?", "How often?", "To what degree?"
• Adverbs should not modify nouns.

Types of Adverbs

• Adverb of Manner: Describes how something is done (e.g., poorly, fluently, slowly).
• Adverb of Time: Indicates when an action occurs (e.g., tomorrow, next week).
• Adverb of Place: Describes the location of an action (e.g., in the restaurant, in the park).
• Adverb of Frequency: Describes how often an action occurs (e.g., daily, regularly).
• Adverb of Negation/Affirmation: Expresses affirmation or denial (e.g., yes, no, never, always).

Conjunctions

• Conjunctions connect words or groups of words, creating complex sentences.
• Examples: and, but, or, for, yet, therefore, also, however, because.

Prepositions

• Prepositions show relationships between words, indicating place, direction, and time.
• Examples:
  • Place: at, in, above
  • Direction: in, towards, through
  • Time: at, before, since

Interjections

• Interjections express emotions, add a conversational tone, and often conclude with an exclamation point.
• Examples: ouch!, wow!, what!