LESSON 1

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In The Teaching Profession

1. Can a bus driver be considered a professional based on the elements of the profession discussed earlier?
No, although a bus driver possesses a skill which is stated in the meaning of being a professional but being a true
professional means you have all acquired the ‘Elements of a Professional’ which entails a long journey of college
preparation and must a ensure a university program approved by Higher Education regulatory body. Being a
professional should also take an ongoing education mandated by the RA 10912 and must be a part professional
societies that follows the code of ethics.

2. Present the elements of professional using a graphic organizer.

3. Are professionalization and professionalism synonymous?

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Professionalization is different from professionalism because professionalization is the action or process that rises
training typically to reach the required qualification to be in s group of professionals. On the other hand,
professionalism is a conduct of behaviour and attitude of someone in a work or business environment. Having
professionalism may put the workplace into a beaming success.

4. Write synonyms of the word professional in the chart below.

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1. Does the teaching profession possess all the elements of the profession? Explain your answer.
Yes, because as a teacher and before becoming a professional teacher, one must first furnish a university
program course in teaching by means of long rigorous college years. The teacher will readily start their lives as a
professional being with competence in their chosen field but before that, the teacher should take and pass the
licensure examination so that he or she will become a real professional as to what is stated by the Professional
Regulation Commission –a government authority that issues professional license in the Philippines. Having the
license does not guarantee the teacher to stop there, owing to the fact that the teacher should develop their
professionalization by having an ongoing professional education to improve their knowledge in their professional
practice. Once everything is done, the teacher will be a member of professionals in the society which moulds the
community of an individual by establishing standards for moral and ethical values as well as training people and
instilling knowledge in their minds. Behind everything, the most necessary thing the teacher must do is to ensure
to follow codes of ethics in order to not to lose their professional license membership, because being a teacher
means to live with dignity in all places at all times.

2. Why a profession does requires years of initial professional education?

A profession requires years of professional education for the reason that being professional means you give
knowledge and inspiration to the community of an individual. Sleeping for one night and waking up in the
morning will not make you a professional, rather it is a step by step process in which you need to make it into a
long dreadful journey , make lots of preparation and practices before making it on top.

3. Why does a profession require continuing professional education?

Being professional means you have lot of responsibility in a work or even in a business. This means that the
individual should persist into a professional education to improve their knowledge and skills once they begun
their professional practice as to what is mandated in a Republic Act 10912 or also known as the Continuing
Professional Development.
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LESSON 2

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The Historical Development of Teaching in the Philippines

Trace the historical development of teacher preparation and professionalization of teaching in the Philippines. (Frompre-
Hispanic Philippines to 1994)

First legal document Decree 1006 known as The

Decree Professionalizing Teaching

Republic Act 7836 otherwise known as

Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of
1994
ASSES:

Write true if the statement is correct and false if it is incorrect. If your answer is false explain why the statement
is false.

1. There was no teacher preparation in the Philippines since the Spanish regime.
 True

2. The first legal document which professionalized teaching in the Philippines is RA 7836.
 [False] Decree 1006 PD 1006 known as The Decree Professionalizing Teaching was the first legal
document.

3. Teacher preparation in the Philippines first begun as a four year course.

 [False] For more than two decades Philippine Normal School first offered a 2 years general
education.
 LESSON 3

Teaching as a Vocation and Mission

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1. When does one consider teaching as a profession according to the poem?

If you are doing it, only because you are paid for it.
If you quit because your boss or colleague criticized you.
If you teach because it does not interfere with your other activities.
If you quit because no one praises or thank you for what you did.

2. Write what you resolve to START doing, STOP doing, and CONTINUE doing NOW as you journey into
embracing teaching as your mission, vocation and profession.

START STOP CONTINUE

Start being positive because it will Stop doing activities the day before its Continue being persistent.
make me productive. deadline.

Start to practice managing my time to Stop depending on the lessons taught Continue to give my best when
avoid conflict. at school. learning something.

Start reading during free time to gain Stop procrastinating owing that it’ll Continue to listen and follow the
knowledge and discover more. make no good at the end. words of wisdom of people who have
much more experience than I have.

Start everything that were Stop thinking negatively when things Continue to learn and formulate
aforementioned above. went wrong. questions that will make me lead to
curiosity and seek answer.
ASSES:

Explain your answers to the following questions in 2-3 sentences.

1. Why is teaching considered as a mission?

Teaching is considered as a mission if the teacher is doing the job not only for the pay but also for the
service and to teach with love, faithfulness and concern. To have a mission in teaching means to teach or
to make effort even when no one recognizes it but still the teacher remains excited to face the student.

2. Why teaching is considered as vocation?

A teacher could consider teaching only as vocation if the teacher is teaching for the pay and by quitting
because someone criticizes him or her. Teaching can also be considered a vocation when you quit because
no one praises your effort.

3. Why teaching is considered as a profession and at the same a mission?

Teaching is considered as a profession and a mission in view of fact that teaching is an occupation for
which people are paid that involves training and formal qualifications because when you teach, one must
teach with dedication out of love and faithfulness and that is already a call of mission. Having the said
profession means not just to work but also to serve other people for the reason that when you teach there
is already an underlying task entrusted upon you and that is already a mission for you to accomplish.