The 7 Domains of PPST 2.
Monitoring and evaluation of learner progress
and achievement
Domain 1, Content Knowledge and Pedagogy, is
composed of seven strands: 3. Feedback to improve learning
1. Content knowledge and its application within 4. Communication of learner needs, progress
and across curriculum areas and achievement to key stakeholders
2. Research-based knowledge and principles of 5. Use of assessment data to enhance teaching
teaching and learning and learning practices and programs
3. Positive use of ICT Domain 6, Community Linkages and Professional
Engagement, consists of four strands:
4. Strategies for promoting literacy and numeracy
1. Establishment of learning environments that
5. Strategies for developing critical and creative are responsive to community contexts
thinking, as well as other higher-order thinking
skills 2. Engagement of parents and the wider school
community in the educative process
6. Mother Tongue, Filipino and English in
teaching and learning 3. Professional ethics
7. Classroom communication strategies 4. School policies and procedures
Domain 2, Learning Environment, consists of six Domain 7, Personal Growth and Professional
strands: Development, contains five strands:
1. Learner safety and security 1. Philosophy of teaching
2. Fair learning environment 2. Dignity of teaching as a profession
3. Management of classroom structure and 3. Professional links with colleagues
activities 4. Professional reflection and learning to improve
4. Support for learner participation practice
5. Promotion of purposive learning 5. Professional development goals
6. Management of learner behavior
Career Stages
Domain 3, Diversity of Learners, consists of five
strands:
Career Stage 1 or Beginning Teachers
1. Learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests
and experiences They have a strong understanding of the subjects/areas in
which they are trained in terms of content knowledge and
2. Learners’ linguistic, cultural, socio-economic
pedagogy. They possess the requisite knowledge, skills
and religious backgrounds
and values that support the teaching and learning process.
3. Learners with disabilities, giftedness and
Career Stage 2 or Proficient Teachers
talents
They provide focused teaching programs that meet
4. Learners in difficult circumstances
curriculum and assessment requirements. They display
5. Learners from indigenous groups skills in planning, implementing, and managing learning
programs. They actively engage in collaborative learning
Domain 4, Curriculum and Planning, includes five with the professional community and other stakeholders for
strands: mutual growth and advancement.
1. Planning and management of teaching and Career Stage 3 or Highly Proficient Teachers
learning process
Career Stage 3 Teachers work collaboratively with
2. Learning outcomes aligned with learning colleagues and provide them support and mentoring to
competencies enhance their learning and practice. They continually seek
3. Relevance and responsiveness of learning to develop their professional knowledge and practice by
programs reflecting on their own needs, and those of their colleagues
and students.
4. Professional collaboration to enrich teaching
practice Career Stage 4 or Distinguished Teachers
5. Teaching and learning resources including ICT Embody the highest standard for teaching grounded in
global best practices. They exhibit exceptional capacity to
Domain 5, Assessment and Reporting, is composed of improve their own teaching practice and that of others.
five strands: They are recognized as leaders in education, contributors
1. Design, selection, organization and utilization to the profession and initiators of collaborations and
of assessment strategies partnerships.
