Department of Education OIC-Regional Director Nicolas Capulong. (DepEd Region 3 file photo)

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Jan.14 (PIA) -- Department of Education (DepEd) is set to hold this week a Seminar-Workshop on Positive Discipline.

The activity, slated from January 15-17 at the National Educators' Academy of the Philippines Region III in Angeles City, aims to train teachers on the use of positive and non-violent approaches to discipline and classroom management using the Primer on Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching.

"This primer provides a quick reference guide for teachers who have already been trained in Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching. It seeks to reinforce the teacher's learning from the training and encourages them to apply this in the classroom. It provides guidance on how to respond to common classroom situations using Positive Discipline," DepEd OIC-Regional Director Nicolas Capulong said.

"We want to orient the selected guidance counselors or teacher-designates for guidance, school heads and teachers from the elementary and secondary level on the core concepts of child protection and the measure to shield them from any form of abuse, violence or bullying," he added.

The agency earlier launched its Child Protection Policy, through DepEd Order No. 40, s.2012, to promote a zero-tolerance policy for any act of child abuse, exploitation, violence, discrimination, bullying and other related offenses.

In a statement, Education Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla reiterated that DepEd is a learner-centered institution which focuses to deliver a quality, accessible, relevant and liberating education to the best interest of the child.

"Discipline as punishment is outdated and ineffective. What DepEd espouses is to implement massive training on positive discipline approach to all our teaching and non-teaching employees. We also need the cooperation and support of all stakeholders, particularly our dear parents, to understand, support and comply with our procedures and processes stipulated in the Child Protection Policy," the official said. (CLJD-PIA 3)