Chapter

8 PROF. ED 2
THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Activity 1

DIRECTIONS:
-Analyze what are the
possible letters of the
numbers given below.
Activity 1
-C 15 4 5
-O 6
-5 20 H 9 C 19
-6 15 18
-16 18 15 F E 19 S 11 O 14 A 12
-20 E A 3 8 E 18 19
THE CODE OF ETHICS
FOR PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS.
WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL?
WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL?
-The term professional has become a
global nomenclature for people who excel
in their respective careers and
profession.
-By semantics, Profession is a type of job
that requires special training and gives
status and prestige to the individual.
-A professional is the one who has
competent skills, observes hig standards
of the job, and abides by the code of
ethics.
WHO IS PROFESSIONAL TEACHER?
WHO IS PROFESSIONAL TEACHER?
-According to the Code of Ethics
for Professional Teachers, 1997.
Licensed professional who
possesses dignity and reputation
with high moral values as well as
technical and professional
competence.
WHAT IS CODE OF ETHICS?
WHAT IS CODE OF ETHICS?
-A set of rules and principles
designed to encourage ethical
conduct among a group of
professional.
- Sets out an organizations
ethical guidelines and best
practices to follow for honesty,
integrity, and professionalism.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (e), Article
11, of R.A. No. 7836, otherwise known as the
Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of
1994 and paragraph (a), section 6, P.D. No. 223, as
amended, the Board for Professional Teachers
hereby adopt the Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers.
Lesson
1
PREAMBLE AND
ARTICLE 1
• Discuss the preamble
and the article 1 of the
code of ethics for
teachers in the
Philippines.
Teachers are duly licensed professionals who
possesse dignity and reputation with high moral
values as well as technical and professional
competence in the practice of their noble
profession, and they strictly adhere to, observe,
and practice this set of ethical and moral
principles, standards, and values.
The Philippine Constitution provides that all
educational institution shall offer quality
education for all competent teachers.
Committed to its full realization, the provision
of this code shall apply, therefore, to all
teachers in schools in the Philippines.
This Code covers all public and private school teachers
in all educational institutions at the preschool, primary,
elementary, and secondary levels whether academic,
vocational, special, technical, or non-formal. The term
“teacher” shall include industrial arts or vocational
teachers and all other persons performing supervisory
and /or administrative functions in all
school at the aforesaid levels, whether on full time or
part-time basis.
 LESSON 2: THE CODE OF ETHICS AS
PROFESSIONAL TEACHER:
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
SECONDARY AND TERTIARY
STAKEHOLDERS

THE TEACHER AND THE STATE

 “It takes a whole
village to raise a child”
INTRODUCTION
The education of a child is not the sole
responsibility of school heads and teachers. In fact, schools
heads and teachers cannot do it by themselves. As the
African proverb says, ‘It takes a whole village to raise a
child.’ The Code of Ethics cites different groups of external
stakeholders with whom schools and teachers have to relate
and work for the education of the child.
These are the state (Article || ), the community ( Article ||| )
and parents ( article |X ). Secondary stakeholders inderictly
recieve the service. These are the learners parents. Tertiary
stakeholders are indirect but crucial participants in the
process of children’s education. These are future employers,
the government or the state and society in general. (
Source: DepEd Continuous Improvement - Project Learning
Guide p.26)
 ARTICLE II
The Teacher and the State
Section I. The schools are the nurseries of the citizens of the state.
Each teacher is a trustee of the cultural and educational heritage
of the nation and is under obligation to transmit to learners such
heritage as well as to elevate national morality, promote national
pride, cultivate love of country, instill allegiance to the constitution
and respect for all duly constituted authorities, and promote
obedience to the laws of the state.
Section II.
Every teacher or school official shall actively
help carry out the declared policies of the
state, and shall take an oath to this effect.
Section III
In the interest of the State of the Filipino
people as much as of his own, every teacher
shall be physically, mentally and morally fit.
Every teacher is expected to be fit or else they cannot perform
his/her function pursuant to section 22 medical examination and
treatment of RA 4670 other wise known as the Magna Carta to
Public School teacher’s shall undergo annual physical
examination free of charge not less than once a year during the
teachers professional life.
Section IV
Every teacher shall possess and actualize
full commitment and devotion to duty.
 Section V
A teacher shall not engage in the promotion of any
political, religious, or other partisan interest, and shall
not directly, or indirectly, solicit, require, collect or
receive any money, service, other valuable material
from any person or entity for such purposes.
As a professional, the teacher is expected not to
take advantage of his/her position or power to
promote his/her own interest whether political nor
religious, nor to solicit, require or collect money,
service or material from any person.
Section VI
Every teacher shall vote and shall
exercise all other constitutional
rights and responsibilities.
A professional teachers violates section 7 of
Article II if he/she engages in partisan politics.
Teachers have to preserve the dignity of the education
sector by not engaging directly or indirectly in
electioneering except to vote. Engaging in partisan
Partisan is a committed member of a political party or
army. In multi-party systems, the term is used for
politicians who strongly support their party’s policies
and are reluctant to compromise with their political
opponents.
Section VII

A teacher shall not use his/her position

or official authority of influence to
coerce any other person to follow any
political course of action.
 Section VIII

Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom and

shall have the privilege of sharing the product of
his researches and investigations, provided that,
if the result are inimical to the declared policies
of the state, they shall be drawn to the proper
authorities for appropriate remedial action.
The professional teacher shall enjoy academic
freedom so he/she can share the product of his/her
researches and investigations in support of the
endless search for truth. However, this academic
freedom is not absolute. It has limits. It the research
findings are damaging to the state, the research
results shall be submitted to the proper authorities for
appropriate action.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines a NURSERY as a
place where babies and young children are cared for
while their parents are somewhere else’.
 ARTICLE III
THE TEACHER
AND
THE COMMUNITY
SECTION 1
A teacher is a facilitator of
learning and of the development
of the youth; he shall,
therefore, render the best
service by providing an
environment conducive to such
learning and
growth.
SECTION 2
Every teacher shall provide
leadership and initiative to
actively participate in
community movements for
moral, social, educational,
economic and civic betterment.
SECTION 3
Every teacher shall merit
reasonable social recognition for
which purpose he shall
behave with honour and dignity at
all times and refrain from such
activities as gambling,
smoking, drunkenness, and other
excesses, much less illicit
relations.
SECTION 4
Every teacher shall live for and
with the community and shall,
therefore, study and
understand local customs and
traditions in order to have
sympathetic attitude, therefore,
refrain from disparaging the
community.
SECTION 5
Every teacher shall help the
school keep the people in the
community informed
about the school’s work and
accomplishments as well as its
needs and problems.
 SECTION 6
Every teacher is intellectual leader
in the community, especially in the
barangay,
and shall welcome the opportunity
to provide such leadership when
needed, to extend
counselling services, as appropriate,
and to actively be involved in matters
affecting the
welfare of the people.
SECTION 7
Every teacher shall maintain
harmonious and pleasant
personal and official relations
with other professionals, with
government officials, and with
the people, individually or
collectively.
SECTION 8
A teacher possesses
freedom to attend church
and worships as appropriate,
but
shall not use his positions
and influence to proselyte
others.
ARTICLE IV THE TEACHER & THE PROFESSION
Section 1. Every teacher shallactively help insure
that teaching is the noblest profession, and shall
manifest genuine enthusiasm and pride in teaching
as noble calling.

Section 2. Every teacher shall uphold the highest

possible standards of quality education, shall make
the best preparation for the career of teaching,
and shall be at his best at all times in the practise
of his profession.

Section 3. Every teacher shall participate in the

continuing profesionaleducation (CPE) program of
the Professional regulation Comission, and shall
pursue such other and strengthen his
competence, virtues, and productivity in order to
be nationally and internationally competitive.
ARTICLE IV THE TEACHER & THE PROFESSION
Section 4. Every teacher shall help, if duly
authorized, to seek support for the school, but
shall not make improper misrepresentations
through personal advertisement and other
questionable means.

Section 5. Every teacher shall use the teaching

profession in a manner that makes it a dignified
means for earning a decent living.
ARTICLE V THE TEACHER & THE TEACHING COMMUNITY
Section 1. The teacher shall, at times, be imbued
with the spirit of professional loyalty, mutual
confidence, and faith in one another, self-sacrifice
for the common good.

Section 2. A teacher is not entitled to claim for

work not of his own, and shall give due for the work
of others which he may use.

Section 3. Before leaving his position, a teacher

shall organize and leave to his successor such
records and other data are not necessary to carry
on the work.
ARTICLE V THE TEACHER & THE TEACHING COMMUNITY
Section 4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all
confidential information concerning associates and
the school, and shall not divulge to anyone
documents which have not yet been officially
released, or remove records from the files without
official permission.

Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every

teacher to seek correctives for what may appear to
be an unprofessional and unethical conduct of any
associate. However, this may be done only if there is
incontrovertible evidence for such conduct.
ARTICLE V THE TEACHER & THE TEACHING COMMUNITY
Section 6. A teacher may submit to the proper
authorities any justifiable criticism against an
associate, preferably in writing, without violating the
right of the individual concerned.

Section 7. A teacher may apply for a vacant

position for which he is qualified; provided that he
respects the system of selection on the basis of
merit and competence; provided, further, that all
qualified candidates are given the opportunity to be
considered.
 ARTICLE VI: THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN THE PROFESSION

Section 1. Every teacher shall make it his

duty to make an honest effort to understand
and support the legitimate policies of the
school and the administration regardless of
personal feeling or private opinion and shall
faithfully carry them out.

Section 2. A teacher shall not make any false

accusations or charges against superiors,
especially under anonymity. However, if there
are valid charges, he should present such
under oath to competent authority.
 ARTICLE VI: THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN THE PROFESSION

Section 3. A teacher shall transact all official

business through channels except when special
conditions warrant a different procedure, such as
when special conditions are advocated but are
opposed by immediate superiors, in which case,
the teacher shall appeal directly to the
appropriate higher authority.

Section 4. Every teacher, individually or as part of

a group, has a right to seek redress against
injustice to the administration and to extent
possible, shall raise grievances within acceptable
democratic possesses. In doing so, they shall
avoid jeopardizing the interest and the welfare of
learners whose right to learn must be respected.
 ARTICLE VI: THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN THE PROFESSION

Section 5. Every teacher has a right to invoke the

principle that appointments, promotions, and
transfer of teachers are made only on the basis of
merit and needed in the interest of the service.

Section 6. A teacher who accepts a position

assumes a contractual obligation to live up to his
contract, assuming full knowledge of employment
terms and conditions.
 ARTICLE VII: SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

Section 1. All school officials shall at all times

show professional courtesy, helpfulness and
sympathy towards teachers and other personnel,
such practices being standards of effective
school supervision, dignified administration,
responsible leadership and enlightened
directions.

Section 2. School officials, teachers, and other

school personnel shall consider it their
cooperative responsibility to formulate policies or
introduce important changes in the system at all
levels.
 ARTICLE VII: SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

Section 3. School officials shall encourage and

attend the professional growth of all teachers
under them such as recommending them for
promotion, giving them due recognition for
meritorious performance, and allowing them to
participate in conferences in training programs.

Section 4. No school officials shall dismiss or

recommend for dismissal a teacher or other
subordinates except for cause.
 ARTICLE VII: SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

Section 5. School authorities concern shall ensure

that public school teachers are employed in
accordance with pertinent civil service rules, and
private school teachers are issued contracts
specifying the terms and conditions of their work;
provided that they are given, if qualified,
subsequent permanent tenure, in accordance
with existing laws.
 ARTICLE VIII: THE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Section 1. A teacher has a right and duty to

determine the academic marks and the
promotions of learners in the subject or grades he
handles, provided that such determination shall
be in accordance with generally accepted
procedures of evaluation and measurement. In
case of any complaint, teachers concerned shall
immediately take appropriate actions, observing
due process.

Section 2. A teacher shall recognize that the

interest and welfare of learners are of first and
foremost concern, and shall deal justifiably and
impartially with each of them.
 ARTICLE VIII: THE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Section 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher

be prejudiced or discriminate against a learner.

Section 4. A teacher shall not accept favours or

gifts from learners, their parents or others in their
behalf in exchange for requested concessions,
especially if undeserved.

Section 5. A teacher shall not accept, directly or

indirectly, any remuneration from tutorials other
what is authorized for such service. Section 6. A
teacher shall base the evaluation of the learner’s
work only in merit and quality of academic
performance.
 ARTICLE VIII: THE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Section 7. In a situation where mutual attraction

and subsequent love develop between teacher
and learner, the teacher shall exercise utmost
professional discretion to avoid scandal, gossip
and preferential treatment of the learner.

Section 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal

punishment on offending learners nor make
deductions from their scholastic ratings as a
punishment for acts which are clearly not
manifestation of poor scholarship.
 ARTICLE VIII: THE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Section 9. A teacher shall ensure that conditions

contribute to the maximum development of
learners are adequate, and shall extend needed
assistance in preventing or solving learner’s
problems and difficulties.
 ARTICLE IX: THE TEACHERS AND PARENTS

Section 1. Every teacher shall establish and

maintain cordial relations with parents, and shall
conduct himself to merit their confidence and
respect.

Section 2. Every teacher shall inform parents,

through proper authorities, of the progress and
deficiencies of learner under him, exercising
utmost candour and tact in pointing out the
learner's deficiencies and in seeking parent’s
cooperation for the proper guidance and
improvement of the learners.

Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent’s

complaints with sympathy and understanding,
and shall discourage unfair criticism.
 ARTICLE X: THE TEACHER AND BUSINESS

Section 1. A teacher has the right to engage,

directly or indirectly, in legitimate income
generation; provided that it does not relate to or
adversely affect his work as a teacher.

Section 2. A teacher shall maintain a good

reputation with respect to the financial matters
such as in the settlement of his debts and loans in
arranging satisfactorily his private financial affairs.
 ARTICLE X: THE TEACHER AND BUSINESS

Section 3. No teacher shall act, directly or

indirectly, as agent of, or be financially interested
in, any commercial venture which furnish
textbooks and other school commodities in the
purchase and disposal of which he can exercise
official influence, except only when his
assignment is inherently, related to such purchase
and disposal; provided they shall be in
accordance with the existing regulations;
provided, further, that members of duly
recognized teachers cooperatives may
participate in the distribution and sale of such
commodities.
 ARTICLE XI: THE TEACHER AS A PERSON

Section 1. A teacher is, above all, a human being

endowed with life for which it is the highest
obligation to live with dignity at all times whether
in school, in the home, or elsewhere.

Section 2. A teacher shall place premium upon

self-discipline as the primary principle of personal
behaviour in all relationships with others and in all
situations.
 ARTICLE XI: THE TEACHER AS A PERSON

Section 3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a

dignified personality which could serve as a
model worthy of emulation by learners, peers and
all others.

Section 4. A teacher shall always recognize the

Almighty God as guide of his own destiny and of
the destinies of men and nations.
 ARTICLE XII: DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS

Section 1. Any violation of any provision of this

code shall be sufficient ground for the imposition
against the erring teacher of the disciplinary
action consisting of revocation of his Certification
of Registration and License as a Professional
Teacher, suspension from the practice of teaching
profession, or reprimand or cancellation of his
temporary/special permit under causes specified
in Sec. 23,

Article III or R.A. No. 7836, and under Rule 31,

Article VIII, of the Rules and Regulations
Implementing R.A. 7836.
 ARTICLE XIII: EFFECTIVITY

Section 1. This Code shall take effect upon

approval by the Professional Regulation
Commission and after sixty (60) days following its
publication in the Official Gazette or any
newspaper of general circulation, whichever is
earlier.