To: Undersecretaries
Assistant Secretaries
Bureau Directors
Directors of Services, Centers and Heads of Units
Regional Directors
Schools Division/City Superintendents
Heads, Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
All Others Concerned

1. The Revised Implementing Guidelines on the Provision of Teaching Aid and Transportation Allowances to ALS Mobile Teachers and District ALS Coordinators as stipulated in the enclosure of DepEd Order No. 58, s. 2012 (Item No. 4) states as follows:4.0 Entitlement
   All Mobile Teachers (MT) and District ALS Coordinators (DALSCs) are entitled to receive the teaching aid and transportation allowances. Such allowances shall be used to defray additional transportation expenses that the learning facilitators incur to reach all types of ALS learners in far-flung barangays. The teaching aid allowance is intended for purchase and/or reproduction of supplies and materials in the facilitation of the teaching-learning process.All MTs and DALSCs are required to enlist at least 50 learners as the minimum, excluding InfED enrollees, in order to qualify and avail of this benefit. However, the number of InfED learners must still be included in the list of enrollees and serve as a value-added in the ALS implementer’s performance.
2. However, to adopt the changes in practice of the ALS implementors, the Department of Education (DePEd) through the Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) has amended the aforecited provision and shall read as follows:All Mobile Teachers (MT) and District ALS Coordinators (DALSCs) are entitled to receive the teaching aid and transportation allowances. Such allowances shall be used to defray transportation expenses that they incur to reach all types of ALS learners in far-flung and other types of barangays. On the other hand, the teaching aid allowance is intended for purchase and/or reproduction of supplies and materials they will use in the teaching-learning process.
   In order to qualify and avail of this benefit, all MTs and full-time DALSCs are required to enlist at least 75 learners for Nonformal Education (i.e. Basic Literacy Program or Accreditation and Equivalency Program) excluding enrollees of Informal Education or InfED (i.e. short term courses, livelihood trainings, etc.). However, their InfED learners must still be included in their list of enrollees to be considered as a value-added to the ALS implementor’s performance. Part-time DALSCs on the other hand are required to enlist at least 50 Nonformal Education learners.
3. Moreover, the information about the cut off period for submitting/reporting the numbers of ALS learners shall be on July 31st of the year.
4. All other provisions of the above-cited DepEd Order shall remain in force.
5. Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Order is directed.

Reference:
DepEd Order: (No. 58, s. 2012)

To be indicated in the Perpetual Index under the following subjects:
ALLOWANCE
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
AMENDMENT
POLICY
TEACHERS

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