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Teachers help students learn the academic basics, but they also teach valuable life lessons by
setting a positive example. As role models, teachers must follow a professional code of ethics.
This ensures that students receive a fair, honest and uncompromising education. A professional
code of ethics outlines teachers' main responsibilities to their students and defines their role in
students' lives. Above all, teachers must demonstrate integrity, impartiality and ethical behavior
in the classroom and in their conduct with parents and coworkers. It also help teachers create a
safe, productive, and positive learning environment in their teaching career. Teachers are
expected to maintain challenging expectations that will improve the potential of all learners
through meaningful and inclusive participation in the classroom, school, and community. The
Ethical Principles promote good relationships between teachers, students, and parents when
making educational decisions. In addition, this relationship between the students, the parents, and
the teachers, all parties can improve the teaching and learning activities and resources that will
Moreover, the Code of Ethics also challenges teachers to use current data and professional
knowledge to improve teaching and learning activities in the classroom. Keeping up with new
trends and current information, through professional development and continuing education,
As a Professional Educator:
• I strive to make my foremost responsibility the education and welfare of all students in my
care,
• I strive to build relationships with students’ families, as appropriate, that contribute to students’
• I strive to promote mutual respect and trust in my relationships with colleagues, I assist
newcomers to the profession, and I behave in a way which enhances the status of the profession.
RESPONSIBILITY TO STUDENTS
As a professional educator, I strive to make my foremost responsibility the education and welfare
of all
students in my care, and I respect the uniqueness and dignity of each student. This means that I:
Base teaching on best theoretical and practical knowledge and knowledge of each
student‘s development
• accept the expression of different opinions and perspectives and help students
• protect and support the physical development and well-being of all students
• recognize and develop each student's strengths, competencies and talents to the
emotions
them in their interactions with their peers and with the teaching profession
• always consider the student's best interest over personal interest or benefit
student is at risk
that
contribute to students‘ welfare and education. This means that I strive to:
Establish relationships with parents based on courtesy, mutual trust and open
Communication
children
Respect family privacy and treat information with an appropriate level of confidentiality
student is at risk
Respect parents‘ and guardians‘ rights of inquiry, consultation and information with
variety of viewpoints
GENERALLY
As a professional educator, I strive to promote mutual respect and trust in my relationships with
colleagues (both teachers and others), I assist newcomers to the profession, and I behave in a
way
which enhances the status of the profession. This means that I strive to:
SOCIETY
employer
• encourage and assist to enter the profession only those with suitable
attributes and qualifications
• ensure criticism or complaints are made through the correct grievance mechanisms
Promote cooperation among all agencies and professionals working in the best interests
Develop, by precept and example, a respect for laws and policies which protect and
• work to change laws or policies that interfere with the well-being of students
Universities and Colleges throughout the archipelago should offer a separate subject which
tackles only the code of conduct for professional teachers; this should be apart from the Legal
Revise the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers. This is to avoid/delete vague concepts
embedded in it, and, to attune the said with the very foundations of law of the land or the
Philippine Constitution.
RECOMMENDATION: All the above stated alternative courses of action hold bearing
in our quest for improvement on matters pertaining to the uplifting the ethical standards of ethics