The Code of Ethics for
Professional Teachers:
Relatioship with Internal
Stakeholders
DANTE M. CAPUCHINO,
PhD
“When little people are
overwhelmed by big emotions,
it’s our job to share our calm,
not to join their chaos.”
By: L.R. Knost
Explain how the professional
teacher should relate to the
learners, the teaching
community and higher
authorities.
Learning Outcome
The Teacher and the Learners
Viewing of the 2 short Videos
The Review
Share your insights regarding
the relationship of the teacher to
her student: BEFORE and
AFTER
GUIDE QUESTIONS
Share your insights regarding
the relationship of the student to
his teacher: BEFORE and
AFTER
GUIDE QUESTIONS
A. The Teacher and the Learner
INTRODUCTION
The learners are our primary internal stakeholders. They have no
choice over the kind of teacher given them. Fortunate are the
learners who are in classes of professional caring teachers.
Unfortunate are those whose teachers are a contrast of the caring
and compassionate teachers.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
ACTIVITY: Let’s do this!
1. How do you want your teacher to be? What are your
WISHES for your teacher? KINDLY share it to the class.
Note: Whatever sharing be shared must be confined inside the
walls of this classroom
A. The Teacher and the Learner
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, 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, of serving due process.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Section 2. A teacher shall recognize that the
interest and welfare of learners are of first and
foremost concerns, and shall deal justifiably
and impartially with each of them.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Section 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be
prejudiced nor discriminated against by the learner.
Section 4. A teacher shall not accept favors or gifts
from learners, their parents or others in their behalf
in exchange for requested concessions, especially
if under served.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
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.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
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.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
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.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
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.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
ANALYSIS: Let’s Analyze
1. In the wishes you’ve given, which were most
common?
2. Based on article VIII, the teacher and the learners
of the code of ethics, what do you like most and
why?
3. How about duties stated in the article but you was
not able to experienced.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Abstraction: Let’s add to what you know
Perhaps the teacher’s traits are wished by most can be
summed up in the words “caring”, compassionate”,
and “fair.” Article VIII, the teacher and the learner of
the code of ethics describes the professional teacher to
be such. Fair because he/she/ bases the evaluation of
the learners work on merit and quality of academic
performance shall make deductions from learners
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Abstraction: Let’s add to what you know
Scholastic ratings, as primary scholastic and determine
academic marks. In Accordance with generally
accepted procedures of evaluation and measurements
and shall each learner justly and impartially.
Should love develop between teacher and student, the
professional teacher expected to be fair because he/she
shall exercise utmost
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Abstraction: Let’s add to what you know
Professional discretion to avoid preferential treatment
of the learner. Teacher fairness is assured when a
teacher does not accept favor or gifts from learner or
their parents in exchange of requested concessions.
The professional teacher is likewise described as
caring and compassionate. Article VIII, points out
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Abstraction: Let’s add to what you know
The professional teacher has the interest and welfare of
learners as his/her first and foremost concern and
under no circumstances shall a teacher prejudiced nor
discriminatory against and learner. The professional
teacher is also seen to be caring and compassionate
when he/she does not inflict corporal punishment on
offending learners.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Check for understanding
1. Does code of ethics for professional teachers prohibit a
teacher and student to fall in love with each other?
A. Yes, because it is unprofessional
B. No, but student should be transferred to another class
C. No, but teacher shall exercise utmost professional discretion
to avoid preferential treatment of the learner
D. Yes, because teacher will show favoritism definitely.
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Check for understanding
2. What should be the first and foremost concern of the
professional teacher?
a. The interest and welfare of the learners
b. The progress of the learners
c. The social adjustment of the learners
d. The happiness of the learners
A. The Teacher and the Learner
Check for understanding
3. Does the code of ethics for professional teachers allow teachers
to accept remuneration for students which tutor with tutor
teachers rightly deserve?
a. yes, they deserve the renumeration for the tutorial services
b. No, except for what is authorized for such service
c. Yes, provided pay is not excessive
d. No, they are professional teachers and so are expected to give
tutorial services.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Introduction: The professional teacher is not an island.
He/she works with other professional teachers, some
more or less experienced than he/she is. Colleagues are
teachers, partners and collaborators. How teacher
relates to his/her colleagues in the teaching profession
determines if they be come one’s greatest allies and
supportive or one’s greatest enemies.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ACTIVITY: LET”S DO THESE
1. Read article V, the teacher and the teaching
community
Section 1. Teacher shall, at all times, be imbued with the spirit of
professional loyalty, mutual confidence, and faith in one another,
self sacrifice for the common good, and full cooperation with
colleagues. When the best interest of the learners, the school, or
the profession is at stake in any controversy, teacher shall support
one another.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ACTIVITY: LET”S DO THESE
Section 2. A teacher is not entitled to claim credit or
work not of his own. and shall give due credit for
the work of others which he may use.
Section 3. Before leaving his position, a teacher shall
organize for whoever assumes the position such
records and other data as are necessary to carry on
the work.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ACTIVITY: LET”S DO THESE
Section 4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all confidential
information concerning associates and the school, and shall
not divulge to anyone documents which has not been
officially released, or remove records from the files without
permission.
Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every teacher to seek
correctives for what he may appear to be an unprofessional
and unethical conduct of any associates. However, this may
be done only if there is incontrovertible evidence for such
conduct.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ACTIVITY: LET”S DO THESE
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.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ABSTRACTION: LET’S ADD TO WHAT YOU
KNOW
A professional teacher should work in collaboration
with his/her fellow teachers. Gossip destroys collegial
relationships. It has no place in a professional
community. A brotherly/sisterly correction for what
appear to be unprofessional and unethical conduct of
am associate is an act that is becoming of a
professional.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
ABSTRACTION: LET’S ADD TO WHAT YOU
KNOW
Should there be justifiable criticism against a fellow
teacher, the right recourse is to submit to proper
authorities any justifiable criticism.
It is unprofessional for a teacher to apply for a position
for which he is not qualified. Professionalism demands
that selection is based on merit and competence. It is
likewise unprofessional to divulge confidential
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Concerning associates and the school.
Give credit to whom credit is due. A professional teacher
will not claim credit for work not of his/her own.
In order to jeopardized office operation or work, a teacher
before leaving position, shall organize records to his/her
successor. Many a time a turn-over ceremony is well done
but up to ceremony only because records are not organized
and so hampers the continuity of operation.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
In short, at all times, professional teachers shall be loyal to
and trust and support one another for the common good.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Check for understanding:
1. Students reported to you a teacher who has made it a habit to collect money
for quizzes that never were mimeograph or photocopied, the very reason for
money collection. What is ethical for you to do?
a. File a written complaint against the teacher with the student’s oral report as
evidence.
b. Talk to the teacher concerned and correct his unethical conduct.
c. Bring the students and parents to the teacher concerned.
d. Advise the students to file a written complaint against the teacher.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Check for understanding:
2. The school was preparing for a national choral competition. What
should be the response of the teaching community?
a. Let the music teachers do the work since it is music-related.
b. All teachers should cooperate with and support the music teachers
in whatever way.
c. Teachers complained against the students should not be involved in
the preparation of the activities.
d. Give passing grades to all students involved in the choral
competition.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Check for understanding:
3. What is the professional obligation of one leaving a position?
a. Pass an organized records to successor to carry on the work.
b. Tender a despedida party
c. Leave your clerk/secretary for your successor’s guidance
d. Erase all records; successor does not need them anyway.
B. The Teacher and the Teaching Community
WRITTEN ACTIVITY:
1. WILL FILLING A JUSTIED COMPLAINT AGAINST A FELLOW
TEACHER DO WELL FOR A COMMUNTIY OF PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS? If you were the one intending to file a complaint, what
would you do?
2. Which Filipino Trait makes it difficult sometimes for professional
teachers to function as a collegial community?
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Overview
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Features of the
topic
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Assignment
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About the topic
Introduction
Venus is terribly hot—even hotter
than Mercury—and its atmosphere
is extremely poisonous. Venus is
the second-brightest natural object
in the sky after the Moon
Practical uses of this subject
Jupiter
Jupiter is a gas giant and
the biggest planet in the
Solar System
Mercury Venus
A bit larger than the It’s terribly hot, even
Moon and the closest hotter than Mercury. It
planet to the Sun has a beautiful name
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