ACTIVITY D

D 1.1

1. How do you want your teacher to be? What are your wishes for your Teacher?
Write them down.

My Wishes for my Teacher

D 1.2
ANSWER THE FF.

1. Are teachers who have no license considered professional?

2. What do technical and professional competence mean? ( You may refer to the
lesson Teacher as a professional.)
3. Are private school teachers required of a license? What about pre-school
teachers, vocational teachers, ALS teachers, school heads, Education
Supervisors and School Division Superintendents?

D 1.3

Choose the correct answer

1. Who is excluded in the definition of professional teacher in the Code of Ethics?-

Remembering
a. The Schools Division Superintendent
b. The Librarian
c. The Principal
d. The Master Teacher

2. Private school teachers are also required of a professional license. Is this

statement TRUE? - Analysis
a. Yes
b. No
c. It depends on the kid of private school
d. It depends on the teacher’s years of teaching experience

3. Which competence are professional teachers expected to demonstrate? –

Understanding
I. Personal
II. Professional
III. Scientific
IV. Psychological

a. I and IV
b. II and III
c. II and III
d. I and II
 D 1.4

1. Are all institutions and professors in teacher education institutions required of a

license? Research for the answer.

D 1.5

What is the professional thing to do? Explain

1. Teacher B has a brother candidate for the mayoralty race in their hometown. The
brother’s opponent has very good chance of winning and so teacher B starts
secretly campaigning for his brother. Is this Professional?
2. By means of a PowerPoint show how a professional teacher should relate to the
state

D 1.6

1. Schools have School Report Cards as a means by which professional teachers

keep communities informed of school development. Research for a sample of a
school report card.
2. Every School has a School Governing Council. What is this Council about? How
different is this from Parents and Teachers Association?

D 1.7

1. Research on “ helicopter” parents. What is meant by this? How should you relate
to them?
2. Read Substitute and Special Parental Authority of the Family Code of the
Philippines. What does special parental authority imply?
Chapter 2. Substitute and Special Parental Authority

Art. 216. In default of parents or a judicially appointed guardian, the following

person shall exercise substitute parental authority over the child in the order
indicated:
(1) The surviving grandparent, as provided in Art. 214;
(2) The oldest brother or sister, over twenty-one years of age, unless unfit or
disqualified; and

(3) The child's actual custodian, over twenty-one years of age, unless unfit or
disqualified.

Whenever the appointment or a judicial guardian over the property of the child
becomes necessary, the same order of preference shall be observed. (349a,
351a, 354a)

Art. 217. In case of foundlings, abandoned neglected or abused children and

other children similarly situated, parental authority shall be entrusted in summary
judicial proceedings to heads of children's homes, orphanages and similar
institutions duly accredited by the proper government agency. (314a)

Art. 218. The school, its administrators and teachers, or the individual, entity or
institution engaged in child are shall have special parental authority and
responsibility over the minor child while under their supervision, instruction or
custody.

Authority and responsibility shall apply to all authorized activities whether inside
or outside the premises of the school, entity or institution. (349a)

Art. 129. Those given the authority and responsibility under the preceding Article
shall be principally and solidarily liable for damages caused by the acts or
omissions of the unemancipated minor. The parents, judicial guardians or the
persons exercising substitute parental authority over said minor shall be
subsidiarily liable.

The respective liabilities of those referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not
apply if it is proved that they exercised the proper diligence required under the
particular circumstances.

All other cases not covered by this and the preceding articles shall be governed
by the provisions of the Civil Code on quasi-delicts.
 D 1.8

CASE STUDY

Teacher probed for hitting pupil

Saturday, July 9, 2011

The teacher who allegedly wounded her pupil’s head after hitting with a broom
last July 1 is now under investigation.

Department of Education Cebu Province sent a team to Manggaco Elementary

School in Ginatilan town yesterday to investigate grade one teacher Josefita
Lopez.

Provincial Schools Superintendent Arden Monisit said the division’s legal section
will have to wait for the investigation report before deciding what to do with
Lopez.

But Monisit reiterated DepEd’s policy prohibiting corporal punishment in schools.

“ Teachers should be role model and bearers of ethical standards,” Monisit told
Sun Star Cebu yesterday.

Depending on the aggravating and mitigating circumstances surrounding the

incident, his office could reprimand, suspend or dismiss a teacher who violates
the policy.

Six- year old John Ariel Dugaduga had to be taken to the Malabuyoc District
Hospital, where he received five stitches to close the wound on his head.

In a TV5 report, Lopez apologized to Dugaduga’s grandmother Paviana

Dugaduga. She claimed that she threw a broom on the wall after she was irked
by her noisy pupils but landed on Dugaduga’s head instead.

The grandmother did not accept the teacher’s apology and was intent on
pursuing a complaint against her. Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said she
was shocked after reading the news report about the incident.

The Governor said she is warning those who inflict harm on helpless and
vulnerable school children or plan to “ I will not take that lightly,” the governor
added.

Capitol plans to give financial assistance to the grade one pupil and his family.
Garcia said she tasked the Provincial Social Welfare Office to go through the
usual procedure.
Monisit said the Office of the Governor called him yesterday to ask about the
incident. He also said DepEd 7 Director Recaredo Borgonia ordered him to have
the incident investigated within 48 hours. Monisit said this is the first time his
office received a complaint regarding corporal punishment this school year.
Complains against teachers usually get settled at the school level, he added.

He also intends to bring up the incident in an executive conference among

teachers at the end of the month. DepEd handles administrative cases against
teachers, while the Department of Social Welfare and Development usually
assists in filing of criminal case against abusive teachers, Monisit added. Monisit
said DepEd always holds seminars on values formation for teachers.

What to do?
1. Make a reaction paper of not less than 1000 words with 1.5 line spacing
about the case and answer the following questions:

a. What articles under the Philippine Code of Ethics for Professional

Teachers were violated?
b. If you were the teacher- Josefita Lopez, would you agree to be interviewed
on TV? Why?
c. If you were the teacher involved, how would you handle your pupils who
are naughty and very noisy?

Source: https://www.chanrobles.com/executiveorderno209.htm#.X94ajcgzbIU