SED 109 THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY: TEACHER’S

ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL BEAVIOR

CODE OF ETHICS FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS, ARTICLE III (8 sections)

states that a professional teacher shall/live for and with the community.
 

Teacher as facilitator of Learning

Article III section 1  states that the teacher is a facilitator learning and the development
of the youth…therefore shall render  the best service by providing an environment
conducive for such learning and growth.
Facilitator comes from/the word “facilitate” which means to make something easy or
easier.
 

Teacher Leadership and Initiative for Community Participation

Section 2 refers to the “leadership and initiative of the professional teacher to participate
in community movements for social, moral, economic and civic betterment of the
community.”
Schools are at the heart of communities and you as professional teachers are expected
to be –in-the-world-with-others and for others.
Professional teachers ought to take initiative to offer your help for the improvement of
the community.
Teachers, as they participate in community affairs prove that they “are the most
responsible and most important members of society because their professional efforts
affect the fate of the earth”
 
Section 6: Every teacher is an 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 be actively involved in matters
affecting the welfare of the people.”
 

Professional Teacher with Honor and Dignity

Section 3 states: “Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for which
purpose he shall behave with honor  and dignity at all times and refrain from such
activities  as gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and other excesses much less illicit
relations.”
Quotation states “ The influence of a good teacher can never be erased “ but “the
influence of a dishonorable teacher is  as lasting”.
Teacher’s Attitude Toward Local/ Customs and Traditions
Section 4 expects  every teacher to live for  and with the community and shall therefore
study  and understand local  customs and traditions.
The teacher is neither ethnocentric ( does not look down on community’s culture
because of the thought that his/her culture is superior)  neither he/she
is xenocentric ( allowing his/her culture as inferior)

The Professional Teacher and Information Update

Section 5 sates that the teacher “shall  help the school inform the community about the
school’s work, accomplishments, needs and problems”
Community: internal  ( students, parents of the students and teachers) and external
stakeholders (other parents of the community without children enrolled in school,
barangay officials and other government officials, non-government organizations,
government organizations, alumni/alumnae and retirees.
 
The Parents-Teachers Association is an association of teachers and parents with
children who are enrolled in a school. It is a forum for discussions on school problems
and how they can be solved.
The School Governing Council determines general policies on student welfare,
discipline, well-being.

The Professional Teacher and Government Officials and Other

Professionals

Section 7 states: “Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant personal and
official relations with other professionals, with government officials and with the people
individually or collectively.’
 

The Professional Teacher Does Not Use Position to Proselyte

Section 8 says “ A teacher possesses freedom to attend church and worship as

appropriate, but shall not use his position and influence to proselyte  others”.