The Department of Education (DepEd) through the Teacher Education Council (TEC) with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) worked together in coming up with the NEW NORMAL POLICIES AND GUIDELINES ON THE DEPLOYMENT OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS FOR FIELD STUDY AND TEACHING INTERNSHIP FOR AY 2020-2021. This initiative started with the Inception Meeting last July 7, 2020 which was participated by representatives coming from Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC), Technical Panel for Teacher Education (TPTE), Department of Education (DepEd) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and select deans from Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) who served as the Technical Working Group. The meeting was presided by Commissioner Aldrin A. Darilag of CHED with Dir. Runvi V. Manguerra of TEC. After which, series of meetings and consultation took place to come up and polish the proposed policy guideline.