DUBAI: Over 100 overseas Filipino workers who have recently passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) attended the SPIMS (Sa Pinas Ikaw and Ma’m at Sir) event hosted by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Dubai with the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO). The seminar was graced by Philippine Labor Undersecretary Renato L. Ebarle, Consul General Paul Raymund P. Cortes and Labor Attaché Felicitas Bay
NRCO OIC-Director Roel B. Martin led the introduction about the NRCO programs and initiatives. He mentioned that many of the OFW-LET passers wanted to spend their productive years back in the Philippines to teach. Hence, they are proactively educating OFWs from one country to another to avail of the program. With him was NCRO OIC-Chief Geronico M. Herrera, who discussed mainly the SPIMS program.
SPIMS’ primary purpose is to provide returning LET passers with gainful employment as public-school educators in the Philippines and have them deployed to teach at their localities once they decided to go back home.
OFW-LET passers who have not stayed or resided in the Philippines for more than three years based on the his/her late date of arrival, can apply for the program. Applicants may be required to undergo Online Refresher Course (ORC) depending on their teaching experience. All are subject for screening and deliberation. Interested candidates can easily apply online through the Center’s official website and social media account or may visit the nearest DOLE Regional Offices or Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO).
Other speakers were Department of Education Director Juliet Jeruta and Director Jennifer E. Lopez and Philippine Normal University Dr. Serafin Arviola, who both talked about the implementation of K-12 and challenges of being an OFW to public school teacher and the online refresher course module respectively.
Picture: (L-R) Roel B. Martin and Atty. Felicitas Bay
