Unit IV The Professionalization of Teaching

MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Teacher Education
Unit IV
THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHING
INTRODUCTION
Through the years, teaching has gained recognition as a profession at par with
other known and prestigious professions. It has shed off its cloak as just an ordinary
job fit only to those with lesser intellectual and financial abilities. These days, it can
already compete not necessarily in terms of financial rewards but with the prestige
that go with the title “TEACHER”. Unknown to the public, teaching has gone through
a lot of tests and trials towards professionalization. Many laws and decrees were
enacted to provide the legal bases that will improve the status of the teaching
profession. This module, will equip you with the laws promulgated that led toward the
professionalization of teaching.
O At the end of this module, you should have:

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1. explained the various laws promulgated to professionalize
T teaching;
2. explained how a professional teacher should relate to the learners,
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the teaching community, higher authorities and how she conducts
O herself as a person;
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3. discussed the provisions and internalized the Code of Ethics for
Professional Teachers; and
E 4. discuss teachers’ rights and privileges of professional teachers in
S the Philippines and reflect how they apply in real life.
Did you know that there is no more noble profession than teaching. A great teacher is
a great artist, but his medium is not canvass, but the human soul. The quality of
educational process depends upon the level of education and professional training of
teachers, the nature of their method of teaching, the motives and equipment they and
their pupils have at their disposal, the scope and balance of the curriculum of school,
and the advisory services that can be drawn upon teachers to help them in their
classroom work.
-UNESCO World Survey of Education
Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

 cte@mmsu.edu.ph  (077) 600-2014 www.mmsu.edu.ph
Warm-up Activity
Using a concept map, write words/terms that is associated with the factors that
makes a “Professional Teacher”. Once finished, take a photo of your output and
post it to the discussion forum intended for this lesson. be able to explain your
output once somebody from the class wants you to do so.
Laws on
Professionalization
of Teachers
PROFESSIONALIZATION
OF TEACHERS
Professional Rights and

Ethics Privileges

Lesson 1 In recognition of the vital role of teachers in nation

building and raise the morale of teachers, it is
Laws on the Professionalization of imperative that they be considered as professional and
Teaching (3hours) teaching should be considered as a profession.
Browse the following websites or read the attached Course Reader. Study
the materials and answer the questions that follow:
PD 1006: Professionalization of Teaching Regulating their Practice
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1976/09/22/presidential-decree-no-1006-s-
1976/
RA 7836: The Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act
https://www.prc.gov.ph/uploaded/documents/PROFESSIONAL%20TEACHERS-
LAW1.PDF
RA 9293: Amendments to Certain Sections of RA 7836
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2004/04/21/republic-act-no-9293/
1. Compare the qualification requirements for examination of applicants in PD

1006 and RA 9293?
2. What is registration by reciprocity? Is this provided also in RA 7836?

3. How does the law encourage continuing professional growth and development
of teachers?
4. How will a non-education graduate be qualified to take the teacher’s board

examination based in RA 9293?

5. Who are eligible to have a certificate of registration and professional license

without taking the teacher’s board examination?
Post your answer to the discussion forum on October _____, 2020.

Lesson 2
The Code Of Ethics For
Professional Teachers (6 hours)
The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers is promulgated and
adopted to ensure that teachers behave and act professionally. As
licensed professionals, they are expected to possess dignity and
reputation with high moral values as well as technical and professional
competence. The code also provides that as professionals, teachers
should practice a set of ethical and moral principles, standard of values.
These are very important if teachers are to serve as good role models to
students and others in the school community.
(http://teachercodes.iiep.unesco.org/teachercodes/codes/Asia/Philippines.pdf)
Browse the given websites or read the attached Course Reader. Study the
materials and answer the questions that follows.
Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers in the Philippines
http://teachercodes.iiep.unesco.org/teachercodes/codes/Asia/Philippines.pdf
Activity
1 THE CODE OF ETHICS
Preamble
Article I: Scope and Limitations
1. Make your own pledge as a professional teacher.

2. By means of a graphic organizer, present the various groups that are

included in the word Teachers.
TEACHER

Activity
2 The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: Relationship with the
Secondary and Tertiary Stakeholders
Article II- The Teacher and the State
Article III- The Teacher and the Community
Article IX- The Teacher and the Parents
Teacher’s Guide to Parent Teacher’s Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCwC9-z-f_A
1. By means of a concept map, show how a teacher should relate to the state.
Teacher

2. Why are schools called the nurseries of the citizens of the state?
3. In what way can the professional teacher help elevate national morality,
promote national pride and cultivate love of country?
4. Cite actions of a professional teacher that violates sections 5, 6 and 7 of

Article II.

5. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom. What does academic freedom
mean?
6. Why should teachers be physically, mentally and morally fit?
7. What is the teacher’s responsibility to the students as a facilitator of

learning?

8. How can a teacher show respect for community customs and traditions?
9. How should a professional teacher respond to unfair criticism of parents?
10. View How to: A Teacher’s Guide to Parent Teacher Conferences

Do you agree with everything that was shared in the video? If you
agree, give at least 2. What are those that you do not agree with?
Explain why you do not agree?
Post your answer in the discussion forum on October ___, 2020.

Activity
3 The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: Relationship with Internal
Stakeholders
Article VIII: The Teacher and the Learner
Article V: The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Article VI: The Teacher and the Higher Authorities
1. What do you want your teacher to be? Write down your wishes for
your teacher. Are your wishes for your teacher mentioned in Article
VIII?
My Wishes for my Teacher
2. What should be the first and foremost concern of the professional

teacher?

3. What should be the teacher’s attitude towards gifts?
4. View: “Every Kid Needs a Champion” by Rita Pierson, TED Talks

Education
https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion
How should a teacher relate to students to make a difference?
5. Compose a rap as a song on how professional teacher should relate to

one another to form a genuine teaching community. Make sure the
song is based on Article V.

6. What is your responsibility regarding confidential information?
7. In times of controversies affecting the learners, what should be your

stand as a teacher? Why?
8. Will filing a justified complaint against a fellow teacher do well for a

community of professional teachers? If you were the one intending to
file a complaint, would you do so?

9. Which Filipino trait makes it difficult for professional teachers to

function as a collegial community?
10. What are your obligations to the school and the administration you
work with as stipulated in Article VI?
Post your answers in the discussion forum on October _____, 2020.

Activity
4 The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: His/Her Person, Profession
and Business
Article IV: The Teacher and the Profession
Article XI: The Teacher as a Person
Article X: The Teacher and Business
Why Public School Teachers Tend to Borrow, October 31, 2017
https://mb.com.ph/2017/10/31/why-public-school-teachers-tend-to-
overborrow/
1. Which section of Article IV does each quotation refer?
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity goes with

the ability to say no to oneself.”—Abraham Joshua Herschel
“There are so secrets to success. It is the result of preparation,

hardwork and learning from failure.”—Colin Powell

“There are 2 kinds of pride both good and bad. Good pride represents
our dignity and self-respect. Bad pride is the deadly sin of superiority
that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” –John C. Maxwell
2. Create a poster to convince viewers that teaching is the noblest

profession and deserves the best preparation and candidate.
3. There are more women than men in the teaching profession. Does this
indicate that less men are able to face the challenge of the teaching
profession?

4. How could a teacher exemplify a dignified personality?
5. What is the primary principle a teacher should consider regarding

relationship with others as stipulated in Article XI?
6. Give some legitimate income generating activities a teacher could

engage in to augment non-income.

7. View the video at the given website.

https://mb.com.ph/2017/10/31/why-public-school-teachers-tend-to-
overborrow/
Why do teachers tend to borrow and how they can minimize it?
8. When does a professional teacher violate Section 3 of Article X?
9. Cite a proverb in the Mother Tongue to counter teachers’ problem of

indebtedness. e.g. “Narigat ti agurnong ngem alisto ti aggasto.”
Post your answers in the discussion forum on October ____, 2020.

Lesson 3
The Rights and Privileges of
Teachers in the Philippines (3 hours)
The welfare of teachers has given much attention in the past years.
Filipino teachers ought to be aware and knowledgeable of these well-deserved
benefits. The Philippine Constitution guarantees that the state shall “enhance
the right of teachers to professional advancement; assign the highest budgetary
priority to education and; ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful
share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other
means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.
Other laws especially RA 4670, the Magna Carta for Public School
Teachers, House Bill No. 8384 Right Expanded Magna Carta for Public
School Teachers and for Other Purposes and Commonwealth Act No. 578
which protect teachers.
Activity
1 Browse the given websites or study the attached Course Reader. Study the
materials and the given situation. Answer the question that follow:
 RA 4670 The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1966/ra_4670_1966.html
 House Bill 8384 Expanded Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
https://www.teacherph.com/expanded-magna-carta-for-public-school-
teachers/
 Commonwealth Act No. 578
http://www.lawyerly.ph/laws/view/l8e98
Study the given situation.
Mrs. Maria Briones is married to Mr. Carlos Briones. Both of them are public
school teachers who had been in the public service for seven (7) years. Mr. Carlos
Briones is assigned to teach in the far flung barrio where he has to cross rivers to
reach his destination.

Answer the following question.

1. Give at least 3 privileges of Mr. and Mrs. Briones embedded in the
1987 Philippine Constitution.
2. What right of public school teachers like Mr. and Mrs. Briones are
found in Commonwealth Act 578?
3. Mrs. Maria Briones just received a notice form her administrator that
she will be transferred to another school. The transfer should take effect
immediately. It was a month before the national and local election.
What are the rights of Mrs. Briones re-transfer of assignment?

4. A parent filed a case against Mr. Carlos Briones, the adviser of his
daughter. Mr. Briones shall enjoy equitable safeguard in each stage of
the disciplinary procedure. Give 4 rights that Mr. Briones will enjoy.
5. What special right do Mr. and Mrs. Briones enjoy as a married couple?
6. How many hours should Mr. and Mrs. Briones report to school per day?
7. How many hours per day should Mr. Briones spend for actual teaching?

8. What percent of his salary is added as a remuneration when he exceeds

the required number of hours for actual teaching?
9. What special allowance is given to Mr. Carlos Briones for working in a

far flung barrio crossing rivers?
10. What percent of his basic salary is added as a special allowance?
11. What medical benefits can Mr. and Mrs. Briones enjoy?

12. Mrs. Briones has a personal loan from Mr. Sadhwani. Can Mr.
Sadhwani request the cashier to deduct from Mrs. Briones salary the
payment of her loan? Why?
13. Mrs. Maria Briones wants to go on study leave. How many years of
study leave is she entitled to have?
14. How many percent of her monthly salary is she entitled to receive
during her study leave?
15. The salary grade of Mrs. Maria Briones is 18. Her cousin Miss Flores is
a nurse whose salary grade is also 18. Will Mrs. Briones and Miss
Flores receive the same basic salary?
Post your answers in the discussion forum on October ____, 2020.

Take the Unit exam that will be uploaded on your MVLE on __________.
Contact the lecturer for any problem regarding this.
What you have learned and realized from the lesson? What changed in you
after learning the lesson?

References:
UNESCO World Survey of Education
Bilbao, P.P et. al. 2018. The Teaching Profession. Quezon City: Lorimar
Publishing, Inc.
PD 1006: Professionalization of Teaching Regulating their Practice
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1976/09/22/presidential-decree-no-1006-s-
1976/
RA 7836: The Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act
https://www.prc.gov.ph/uploaded/documents/PROFESSIONAL%20TEACHERS-
LAW1.PDF
RA 9293: Amendments to Certain Sections of RA 7836
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2004/04/21/republic-act-no-9293/
Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers in the Philippines
View How to: A Teacher’s Guide to Parent Teacher Conferences
View: “Every Kid Needs a Champion” by Rita Pierson, TED Talks

Education https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion
https://mb.com.ph/2017/10/31/why-public-school-teachers-tend-to-overborrow/
RA 4670 The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1966/ra_4670_1966.html
House Bill 8384 Expanded Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
https://www.teacherph.com/expanded-magna-carta-for-public-school-
teachers/
Commonwealth Act No. 578
http://www.lamwyerly.ph/laws/view/l8e98


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MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Teacher Education

O At the end of this module, you should have:

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Professional Rights and

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Lesson 1 In recognition of the vital role of teachers in nation

1. Compare the qualification requirements for examination of applicants in PD

2. What is registration by reciprocity? Is this provided also in RA 7836?

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

4. How will a non-education graduate be qualified to take the teacher’s board

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

5. Who are eligible to have a certificate of registration and professional license

Post your answer to the discussion forum on October _____, 2020.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

1. Make your own pledge as a professional teacher.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

2. By means of a graphic organizer, present the various groups that are

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

4. Cite actions of a professional teacher that violates sections 5, 6 and 7 of

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

6. Why should teachers be physically, mentally and morally fit?

7. What is the teacher’s responsibility to the students as a facilitator of

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

9. How should a professional teacher respond to unfair criticism of parents?

10. View How to: A Teacher’s Guide to Parent Teacher Conferences

Post your answer in the discussion forum on October ___, 2020.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

My Wishes for my Teacher

2. What should be the first and foremost concern of the professional

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

3. What should be the teacher’s attitude towards gifts?

4. View: “Every Kid Needs a Champion” by Rita Pierson, TED Talks

5. Compose a rap as a song on how professional teacher should relate to

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

6. What is your responsibility regarding confidential information?

7. In times of controversies affecting the learners, what should be your

8. Will filing a justified complaint against a fellow teacher do well for a

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

9. Which Filipino trait makes it difficult for professional teachers to

Post your answers in the discussion forum on October _____, 2020.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

1. Which section of Article IV does each quotation refer?

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity goes with

“There are so secrets to success. It is the result of preparation,

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

2. Create a poster to convince viewers that teaching is the noblest

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

4. How could a teacher exemplify a dignified personality?

5. What is the primary principle a teacher should consider regarding

6. Give some legitimate income generating activities a teacher could

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

7. View the video at the given website.

8. When does a professional teacher violate Section 3 of Article X?

9. Cite a proverb in the Mother Tongue to counter teachers’ problem of

Post your answers in the discussion forum on October ____, 2020.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Study the given situation.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Answer the following question.

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Castro Ave., Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Philippines

8. What percent of his salary is added as a remuneration when he exceeds