THE CODE OF ETHICS

FOR PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS
By : Julie Ann Ilao
PBTE 1-2
1.The Teachers and the State (Article II)
2. The Teachers and the Community (Article III)
3. The Teacher and the Profession (Article IV)
4. The Teacher and the Teaching Community (Article
V)
5. The Teachers and Higher Authorities in the
Profession (Article VI)
6. The School Officials, Teacher, and Other Personnel
(Article VII)
7. The Teachers and the Learners (Article VIII)
8. The Teachers and teachers Parents (Article IX)
9.The Teacher and Business (Article X)
10. Teacher as a Person (Article XI)
11. Disciplinary Action (Article XII)
E. PHILIPPINE TEACHERS
PROFESSIONALIZATION ACT OF
1994 (R. A. 7836):
1. Objectives (Article 1, Section 3)
2. Creation and Composition of the Board
(Article II, SECTION 5)
3. Examinations, Registration and License
Required (Article III, Section 13)
4. Scope and Examination (Article III, Section
14)
5. Qualification Requirements of Application
(Article III, Section 15)

• A citizen of the Philippines or an alien whose country has

reciprocity with the Philippines in the practice of teaching
profession;
• At least 18 years of age;
• In good health and of good reputation with high moral
values;
• Has not been convicted by final judgement by a court for an
offense involving moral turpitude;
• A graduate of a school, college or university recognized by
the government and possesses the minimum educational
qualifications, as follows:
1. for teachers in preschool, a bachelor's degree in early
childhood education or its equivalent;
2. for teachers in the elementary grades, a bachelor's degree in
elementary education (BEED) or its equivalent;
3. for teachers in the secondary grades, a bachelor's degree in
education it's equivalent with a major and minor, or a
bachelor's degree in arts and sciences with at least 18 units in
professional education;
4. for teachers of vocational and two-year technical courses, a
bachelor's degree in the field of specialization or its
equivalent, with at least 18 units of professional education.
6. Issuance of Certificate of Registration and
Professional License (Article III, Section 17)

7. Revocation of the Certificate of Registration,

Suspension from the Practice of the Teaching
Profession, and Cancellation of Temporary or
Special Permit (Article III, Section 23)
8. Registration and Exception (Article III,
Section 26)

Upon approval of the application and payment of the

prescribed fees, the certificate of registration and
Professional License as a Professional teacher shall be
issued without examination as required in this Act to a
qualified applicant, who at the time of the approval of this
Act is:

• A holder of a certificate of eligibility as a teacher issued

by the Civil Service Commission and the Department of
Education, culture and sports; or
• A registered professional teacher with the National Board
for Teachers under the Department of Education, culture
and sports pursuant to P. D No. 1006; or
• Not qualified under paragraphs one and two but with any
of the following qualifications to will:
• > An elementary or secondary teacher for five (5) years in
good standing and a holder of Bachelors of Science in
Education or its equivalent; or
• > An elementary or secondary teacher for three (3) years
in good standing and a holder of a Master's degree in
Education or its equivalent
9. Inhibition Against the Practice of the
Teaching Profession

• Except as otherwise allowed under this Act, no person

shall practice or offer to practice the teaching
profession in the Philippines or be appointed as
teacher to any position calling for a teaching position
without having previously obtained a valid certificate
of registration and a valid license from the commission
(Article IV, Section 27)
• Penal Provision (Article IV, Section 28) The following
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than Five
Thousand Pesos (₱ 5, 000.00) not more than Twenty
Thousand Pesos (₱ 20,000.00) or imprisonment of not
less than Six (6) months not more than Five (5) years,
or both, at the discretion of the court:
a. Any person who practices the teaching profession in
the Philippines without being certified in accordance with
the provisions of this Act;
b. Any person who represents or attempts to use as his
own certificate of registration that of another;
c. Any person who gives any false or fraudulent evidence
of any kind to the Board or any member thereof in
obtaining a certificate of registration as teacher;
d. Any person who impersonates any registrant of the
same or different name;
e. Any person who uses a revoked or suspended
certificate of registration;
f. Any person who, in connection with his name,
otherwise assumes uses or advertises any title or
description lending to convey or conveys the impression
that he is a teacher without holding a valid certificate; and
g. Any person who violates or abets the violation of any of
the provision of this Act
F. CODE OF CONDUCT AND ETHICAL
STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS
AND EMPLOYEES (R. A. 6713)
1.Definition of Terms ( Section 3 )
a. Government
b. Public Officials
c. Gift
d. Receiving Gift
e. Loan
f. Substantial Stockholders
g. Family of public Officials or employees
h. Person
i. Conflict of Interest
j. Divestment
k. Relatives
 2. Norms of Conduct of Public Officials
and Employee (Section 4)
a. Commitment to Public Interest
b. Professionalism
c. Justness and Sincerity
d. Political neutrality
e. Responsive to the Public
f. Nationalism and Patriotism
g. Commitment to democracy
h. Simple living
 3. Duties of Public Officials and
Employee (Section 5)
a. Act promptly on letters and request within 15
working days from receipt thereof.
b. Submit annual performance reports within 45
working days from the end of the year.
c. Process documents and papers expeditiously with
no more than three (3) signatories.
d. Act immediately on the public's personal
transactions.
e. Make documents accessible to the public.
 4. Prohibited Acts and Transactions
(Section 7)
a. Financial and material interest in any transactions
requiring the approval of their office.
b. Outside employment and other activities related
thereto: owning, controlling managing or accepting
employment as officer, employee, consultant and the
like; engaging in the private practice of their
profession; recommending any person to any position
in a private enterprise.
c. Disclosure and/or misuse of confidential information.
d. Solicitation and acceptance of gifts
VI. OTHER RELATED LAWS
• R. A. 1265 and DECS Rulling #8 : Penalizing all
educational institutions which do not observe the
flag ceremony. Supreme Court resolution declares
that all school children cannot be compelled to
salute and pledge allegiance to the flag of their
religious beliefs ban them from doing so.
• R. A. 6728 : Government Assistance to Students and
Teachersof Private Education
• R. A. 7722 : An Act Creating the Commission on
Higher Education
•
• R. A. 7784 : An Act Strengthening Teacher
Education in the Philippines By Creating
Centers of Excellence (COE) ; creating a
Teacher Education council for the
appropriation of national network with
elementarv schools, high schools and/or part
for laboratory purposes.
• R. A. 7796 : An Act Creating the Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority
(TESDA)
• R. A. 7836 : Philippine Teachers Professionalism Act
of 1994
•
• - Prescribes the Licensure Examination for Teachers
(LET) to make them duly licensed professionals who
posses dignity and reputation with high moral values
as well as technical and professional competence.
•
• - Provides that within two years after January 12,
199, no person shall be allowed to teach in the
preschool, elementary and secondary level nor in
vocational courses unless he is duly registered
professional teacher.
• R. A. 8187 : Paternity Leave Act of 1996 - grants
paternity leave of seven (7) days with full payment
to married male employees for the first four
deliveries of the legitimate spouse with whom he
is cohabiting; such leave is not cumulative and
non-convertible to cash
• R. A. 7192 : An Act Promoting the Integration of
women As Full Partners of Men in Development
and National Building and for other purposes.
• Educational Assistance Act of 1976 : Study Now
Pay Later Plan
• P. D. 176 : Ownership, Control and Administration of
Education Institutions.
• R. A. 578 : Confers the status of person in authority upon
teachers, principals and professors.
• R. A. 6655 and DECS Order # 44 s. 1998 : An Act
Establishing and Providing for a Free Public Secondary
Education and for Other Purposes; otherwise known as "
Free Public Secondary Act of 1998 ".
• R. A. # 4090 : Provides for state scholarships in Science,
Arts and Letters for the poor but deserving students;
creating a state Scholarship Council to Integrate,
systematize, administer and implement all program
scholarships and appropriating funds thereof.
• R. A. 5447 : Creation of a special Education Fund Act
enacted in 1966 ( to be constituted from the
proceeds of an additional real properly tax and
certain portion of the taxes on Virginia type
cigarettes and duties imposed on imported tobacco
leaf. Activities shall be limited to :
• 1. organization and extension of classes
• 2. construction and repair of school buildings
(aiding provincial, municipal, city and barrio
schools)
• 3. acquisition of school sites
• R. A. 6139 : regulated the sectarian schools/private
schools in charging higher tuition fees
• R. A. 5698 : Legal Education Board was created to
improve the equality of law schools
• R. A. 7687 : an Act instituting 7 establishing scholarship
program for courses that will encourage the students to
pursue careers in science and technology ( Science and
Technology Scholarship Act of 1994)
• R. A. 7743 : Establishment of City and municipal
libraries.
• R. A. 7880 : An Act providing for the fair and equitable
allocation of the Dept. Of Ed. Culture and Sports Budget
for the Capital Outlay ( Fair and Equitable Access to
Education Act)
• R. A. 8292 : Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997;
establish the maintain and support a complete, adequate and
integrated system of education relevant to the needs of the
people and the society.
• R. A. 6850 : An Act to Grant Civil Service Eligibility Under
Certain Condition to Government Employeea Appointed
Under Provisional or Temporary Status Who Have Rendered a
Total of Seven (7) Years of Efficient Service.
• R. A. 8445 : amending R. A. 6728 " an Act providing
government assistance to student and teachers of private
education" ; Expanded Government Assistance to Students
and Teachers in Private Education Act
• R. A. 8525 : 1998 Act Establishing "Adopt-School-Program" ;
allowing private schools, companies to assist/support public
schools in upgrading and modernization of public schools
particularly those in poverty- stricken provinces.
• R. A. 8491 : Prescribing the code of the national flag, anthem,
motto, coat of arms and other heraldic items and devices of
the Philippines ( Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines)
• R. A. 7686 : an Act To Strengthen the Manpower Education and
Training in the Philippines by Institutionalizing the Dual Training
System as An Institutional Delivery System of Technical, and
Vocational Education and Training; otherwise known as "Dual
Training System Act of 1994"
• R. A. 7797 : an Act To Lengthen the School Calendar From
Two Hundred Days To Not More Than Two Hundred Twenty
(220 class days)
• R. A. 8190 : An Act Granting Priority to Residents of the
Barangay, Municipality or City Where the School is Located in
the Appointment or Assignment of Classroom Public School
Teachers.
• R. A. 6972 : an Act Establishing A Day Care Center in Every
Barangay, Instituting Therein A Total Development and
Protection of Children Program Appropriating Funds Thereof,
an for Other Purposes
• R. A. 7624 : An Act Integrating Drug prevention and
Control in the intermediate and Secondary Curricula As
Well As in The Non-formal, informal and Indigenous
Learning System and for other Purposes
• R. A. 7165 : An Act Creating The Literacy Coordinating
Council, Defining Its Power and Functions, Approaching
Thereof, and for Other Purposes
• R. A. 7877 : Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
• R. A. 9163 : National Service Training Program (NSTP) of
2001
• R. A. 6139 : An Act To Regulate Tuition and other School
Fees of Private Educational Institutions
Department Order/ Memoranda/ Circula

• DECS Order # 5, s. 1974 : Bilingual Education Policy

• DECS Order # 52, s. 1987 : mandates the use of the
regional languages as auxiliary medium of
instruction
• DECS Order No. 4, s. 2002 : Basic Education
Curriculum; shall be implemented in all public
schools during year 2002-2003
• CMO # 30, s. 2004 - Revised Policies and Standards
for Undergraduate Teacher Education Curriculum
• DepEd Order # 65, s. 2007 : Guidelines in the Utilization
of the Additional Subsidy for the Regional Science High
School for CY 2007
• DepEd Order # 79, s. 2003 : Assessment and Evaluation
of Learning and Reporting of Students Progress in Public
Elementary and Secondary Schools
• DepEd Order # 70, s. 2003 : Revised Grading System for
Elementary and Secondary Schools
• DepEd Order # 33, s. 2007 : Reiterating the Revitalizing
of the Girl Scouting Movement in Schools and Regulating
the Collection of voluntary Contributions of Public
Elementary and Secondary Schools
• DepEd Order # 45, s. 2008 : Student Uniforms Not Require in
Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
• DepEd Order # 42, s. 2008 : Official List of Additional 121
Tech-Voc High Schools To Implement the STVEP-CBC Effective
SY 2008-2009
• DepEd Order # 39, s. 2008 : Private School Textbooks with
Errors
• DepEd Order # 30, s. 2008 : Requiring all Regional Offices to
submit List of Names and Addresses of Private Schools with
Permit to Operate or Recognition or Accreditation
• DepEd Order # 19, s. 2008 : Implementation of No Collection
Policy in all Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
• DepEd Order # 7, s. 2008 : Turning Around Low
Performance in English. A Priority Program for 2008
• DepEd Order # 19, s. 2009 : 2009 President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo Outstanding Achievements and
Academic Excellence Awards
• DepEd Order # 9, s. 2004 : Guidelines in the Selection of
Honor Pupiks/Students in Public Schools
• DepEd Order # 4, 2004 : Additional Guidelines on the
New Performance Based Grading System
• DepEd Order # 5, 2004 : Eligibility of Remedial
Instruction Classes for Grant of Vacation Service Credits
• DepEd Memo # 307, s. 2007 : Refined Secondary Education
Curriculum (RSEC Year III and IV)
• DepEd Memo # 490, s. 2007 : the Spanish Language as an
Elective in High School
• DepEd Memo # 9, s. 2009 : Training-Workshop for Teachers
of Additional Secondary School Offering Special Education
Program
• DepEd Memo # 62, s. 2008 : Early Registration for
Incoming First Year High School Students for SY 2009-2010
• DepEd Memo # 7, s. 2009 : Random Drug Testing
• DepEd Memo # 65, s. 2008 : Guidelines and the Utilization
of the Four Hundred Thousand PesosAllocation for S and T
Oriented High Schools.