Return of Service Conditions.
SEC. 10. Return of Service Conditions. – Award recipients must teach full-time high school subject(s) in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, or Physics; or Information Technology or Agricultural, Aquaculture or Fisheries Technology, both in the university and technical-vocational tracks in the secondary education curriculum, for a minimum of two (2) years, in a public or private high school.
Incentives Schemes.
SEC. 11. Incentives Schemes. – The following are incentives granted to qualified graduates who shall be hired to teach at a public or private high school for a minimum of two (2) years. They shall be entitled to:
(a) A starting salary grade equivalent to that of a Special Science Teacher I in the Philippine Science High School System;
(b) Priority for job placement in any high school, public or private, of his/her choice within the country, with first priority in his/her home province;
(c) A one-time relocation allowance should he/she be assigned in a place other than the permanent residence;
(d) Scholarships in identified teacher education institutes for Science Education courses; and
(e) Pass the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) within five (5) years of hiring.
Recipients of the four (4)- or five (5)-year S&T Undergraduate Scholarship of DOST-SEI under Republic Act No. 7687 may also opt to teach full-time the courses identified in Section 10 of this Act, for a minimum of two (2) years in a public or private high school in their home region.
Teacher Training.
SEC. 12. Teacher Training. – The Philippine Normal University (PNU), being the National Center for Teacher Education per Republic Act No. 9647, otherwise known as the “Philippine Normal University Modernization Act of 2009”, and its network of universities in teacher education like the National Network of Normal Schools (3NS), as well as CHED-compliant programs in teacher education and centers for teacher training recognized by the CHED and the DepED, are hereby tasked to provide training for hired teachers under this program. For this purpose, one thousand (1,000) scholarships are made available every year to these hired teachers to be sourced from the DepED, to be coordinated with their implementation of the teacher education and training provision of Republic Act No. 10533, otherwise known as the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013”.