MyPhone launches search for My School House, My Teacher, My Hero

MANILA, Philippines - In support of the Teachers’ Month Campaign and World Teachers’ Day celebration, MyPhone launches the first My School House, My Teacher, My Hero Search nationwide.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro, confirms that the search is one of the many activities which aim to instill awareness and drum up support for the Teachers’ Month Campaign and World Teachers’ Day celebration. The search also seeks to highlight the significant role of teachers as genuine heroes of education, provide free and decent school houses to deserving schools through the efforts of the teachers, and inspire others to contribute in sincere nation-building efforts in line with the encouragement of President Benigno Aquino III during his State of the Nation Address.

To join, teachers must nominate his or her school, tell his or her story and justify why the nominated school deserves an award of free school house in an essay. Together with some important documentation, the essay must be submitted on or before Sept. 15, 2011 to the Department of Education through the Center for Students and Co-Curricular Affairs c/o Executive Director Joey Pelaez.

Each entry shall be judged based on the special needs/circumstances of the nominated school (40%), story of the nominating teacher (30%), overall impact on the community (20%), and online votes garnered on Facebook (10%). The nominated schools of the winning entries will each receive a school house consisting of two classrooms. Awarding of winners will be during the World Teachers’ Day on Oct. 5, 2011 at the PhilSports Arena, Pasig City as one of the highlights of the celebration.

To get the complete details of the search, interested teachers must secure a copy of DepEd Memorandum No. 184, s. 2011. For more information, visit www.facebook. com/csca.deped or www. facebook.com/depedtmc.  

The search is also part of MyPhone’s advocacy to recognize the heroism in each individual especially the teachers whose welfare remains at the heart of its founder Elena Lim, herself a former teacher. Recently, My Solid Technologies and Devices Corp., owner of MyPhone, committed to donate classrooms to DepEd apart from the school houses it provided as prizes for this search.  

the search serves as a tribute to all teachers who make things happen despite the difficulties of their profession.