CHAPTER 4

The Professionalization
of Teaching

By: Kimberly Jean Yu Sildo

Objectives
Compare PD 1006 and RA 7836, laws that
professionalized teaching.
Explain how the amendments in RA 9293 support
the teaching profession.
Have developed deeper appreciation for the
PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHING and
the TEACHING PROFESSION itself.
Have felt the impact of the
PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHING on
your future life as full – pledged professional
teacher.
 Lesson 1

Basic Laws on the

Professionalization of
Teaching
Presidential Decree 1006
January 1,1997
“Providing for the
Professionalization of Teachers,
Regulating Their Practice in the
Philippines”
Also known as “Decree
Professionalizing Teaching”
PD 1006 was premised on the ff:
1. “Teachers whose direct and continuing
interaction with the young people and the
children make them potent forces for the
development of proper attitudes among the
citizenry;
2. The tremendous growth of the teaching
population
3. To insure that in the immediacy and urgency
of the teacher recruitments are not
overlooked,
PD 1006 was premised on the ff:
4. Teachers requires a number of years of
collegiate study,
5. In recognition of the vital role of the
teachers in nation – building and as an
incentive to raise the morale of teachers, it is
imperative that they be considered as
professionals and teaching be recognized as
a profession”
(PD 1006)
PD 1006
Declared a policy that teacher education be
of the highest quality and strongly oriented
to Philippine conditions and to the needs
and aspirations of the Filipino people.
The Civil Service Commission and the
Department of Education and Culture
jointly gave examination for teachers.
Passers who were qualified were given
Professional Teacher Certificate.
PD 1006
It made teacher’s license a requirement for
teaching.
“Three years after the effectivity of this
Decree, no person shall engage in teaching
and/or act as a teacher as Defined in this
Decree, whether in public or private
elementary or secondary school, unless he is
holder of Professional Teacher Certificate
or considered as Professional Teacher under
this Decree”
PD 1006
1991 Congressional Commission affirmed
the continuously deteriorating quality of
education in our country.
The Congressional Commission to
Review and Assess Philippine Education
(EDCOM) came out with the finding that
the “quality of Philippine Education is
declining” and the teachers are “at the heart
of the problem”
The EDCOM found:
Teachers are poorly trained;
There is low quality of students
enrolled in teacher training; and
Teaching is perceived as a poorly
esteemed profession.
Republic Act No. 7836
1994 another law on teacher’s
professionalization namely RA No. 7836
Known as the “Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of 1994” was
enacted.
The Act created by the Board for
Professional Teachers.
Professional Regulation Commission gives
Licensure Examination for Teachers
(LET)
QUALITY
“to get the BEST
and the
BRIGHTEST”
Republic Act No. 9293
It is in support move to hire the most
cosmpetent teachers in the classroom.
Presidential Decree 1006

Providing for the

Professionalization of
Teachers, Regulating Their
Practice in the Philippines
 Republic Act No. 7836

Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of
1994
 Republic Act No. 9293

An Act Amending Certain

Sections of Republic Act No.
7836 otherwise known as the
“Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of
1994”
Thank You Po!