GROUP 1
Topics:
Demands of Society from A Teacher as a Person
•12 Characteristics of an effective teacher by Robert J. Walker
•Professionalism: Article XI (Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers)
•Integrity as one of the essential trait of a professional teacher (Section 7, R.A. 4670)
•Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: Preamble and Article 1.
(The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers:) Relationship with the Secondary and Tertiary
Stakeholders
•The Teacher and the State
•The Teacher and the Community
•The Teacher and the Parents
12 characteristics of an effective teacher by Robert J. Walkers
1.PREPARED - Effective teachers come to class each day ready to teach
2.POSITIVE - Effective teachers have an optimistic attitude about being a teacher and about
their students.
3.HIGH EXPECTATIONS - Effective teachers do not set limits on any students and believe they
all can be successful.
4.CREATIVE - Effective teachers are resourceful and inventive in their teaching methods.
5.FAIR - Effective teachers handle student ls and grading fairly.
6.PERSONAL TOUCH - Effective teachers are approachable and friendly.
7.DEVELOP A SENSE OF BELONGING - Effective teachers have a way of making students
feel welcome and comfortable in their classroom.
8.COMPASSIONATE - Effective teachers are concerned about students’ personal problems
and can relate to them. Numerous stories established how the sensitivity and compassion of
caring teachers affected them in profound and lasting ways.
9.HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR - Effective teachers do not take everything seriously and make
learning fun.
10.RESPECT STUDENTS - Effective teachers do not deliberately embarrass students.
Teachers who give the highest respect get the highest respect.
11.FORGIVING - Effective teachers do not hold grudges.
12.ADMIT MISTAKES - Effective teachers are quick to admit it when they’re wrong.
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.
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.
Section 7. Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers.
Within six months from the approval of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall formulate and
prepare a Code of Professional Conduct for Public School Teachers. A copy of the Code shall
be furnished each teacher: Provided, however, That where this is not possible by reason of
inadequate fiscal resources of the Department of Education, at least three copies of the same
Code shall be deposited with the office of the school principal or head teacher where they may
be accessible for use by the teachers.
Preamble
Teachers are duly licensed professionals who possesses 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.
Article I: Scope and Limitations
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. 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.
Article II: The Teacher and the State
Section 1. The schools are the nurseries of the future 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, instil allegiance to the constitution and for all duly constituted
authorities, and promote obedience to the laws of the state.
Section 2. 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 3. In the interest of the State and of the Filipino people as much as of his own, every
teacher shall be physically, mentally and morally fit.
Section 4. Every teacher shall possess and actualize a full commitment and devotion to duty.
Section 5. 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 or service or other valuable material from any person or entity for such purposes.
Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional rights and
responsibility.
Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position or official authority or influence to coerce any
other person to follow any political course of action.
Section 8. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom and shall have privilege of expounding
the product of his researches and investigations; provided that, if the results are inimical to the
declared policies of the State, they shall be brought to the proper authorities for appropriate
remedial action.
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
counseling 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 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.
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.
