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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHER PREPARATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION IN

THE PHILIPPINES FROM PRE-HISPANIC TO 1996

SPANISH PERIOD
PRE-HISPANIC PERIOD By the virtue of of Educational Degree of 1863 free public
There was no formal preparation for teachers. school system was established. Men were trained as maestros
by the Jesuits. A few years later maestras were also trained.

AMERICAN PERIOD
American Soldiers became the first teachers.The Philippine
IN 1994 Normal School was established in September 1901. An institution
R. A 7836, also known as the Philippine Teachers for teacher education PNS has provided a service for more than
Professionalization Act of 1994, was enacted in 1994 to... "promote two decades. Program of general secondary education lasting
quality education through proper licensure examination two years. It became a junior college in 1928, offering a two-
supervision and regulation, as well as the professionalization of year program to secondary school graduates. In 1949, the
the teaching profession" (Section 2) Philippine Republic Normal School, later renamed Philippine
Normal College, offered a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree
Science in Primary School. Other four-year teacher preparation
programs followed after.

Presidential Decree 1006, issued by then-President


Ferdinand E. Marcos, was the first legal document that
formalized teaching. Teachers in the Philippines were not
professionalized until 1976, when PD 1006, known as the
Decree Professionalizing Teaching, was issued.

Name: Angelica M. Cellar


Structure
Organization

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