Professor Jennie Jocson

Dr. Jennie V. Jocson is currently the Vice President for Academics of the Philippine Normal University, the country’s National Center for Teacher Education.

Previously, she held the position of Deputy Director at the Philippine National Research Center for Teacher Quality, a DFAT – Australian Aid funded Research Center based at the Philippine Normal University. She led national high impact research aimed at improving teacher quality in the country.

She currently holds the Venancio Mendiola Professorial Chair in Literature (PNU) and the PUP Professorial Chair in Literature for all her work on Literature curriculum. She is a UNESCO consultant on Assessment and has worked with the Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Myanmar and Mongolia Ministries of Education to develop assessment tools to assess teacher competencies against the ICT-Competency for Teachers

She is a gender advocate and has presented studies on gender mainstreaming in national and international fora. Her research interests include assessment, teacher cognition and teacher quality, and gender.