TEACHER’S ETHICAL

& PROFESSIONAL
BEHAVIOR
MODULE 7

Reporters:
Lumanggal, Bai Sandra
Landisa, Marisa
Lilan, Radea
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers

ARTICLE III
The Teacher and the Community
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Community
Section 1. Teacher as Facilitator of Learning

- A teacher is a facilitator of learning and of the

development of the youth: he shall, therefore, render the
best service by providing an environment conducive to
such learning and growth.
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Community
Section 2. Teacher Leadership and Initiative for
Community Participation

- Every teacher shall provide leadership and initiative to

actively participate in community movements for moral,
social, educational, economic and civic betterment.
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Community
Section 3. Professional Teacher with Honor and Dignity

- Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for

which purpose he shall behave with honor and dignity at all
times and refrain for such activities as gambling, smoking,
drunkenness, and other excesses, much less illicit relations.
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Section 4. Teacher’s Attitude toward Local Customs and
Traditions
- Section 4 expects every teacher to live for and with the
community and shall, therefore study and understand local
customs and traditions in order to have a Sympathetic
attitude, therefore, refrain from disparaging the community”.
- The professional teacher is neither ethnocentric nor
xenocentric. He/she is not ethnocentric and so does not look
down on community’s culture because of the thought that
his/her culture is superior to the culture of the community.
Neither is he/she xenocentric and so looks at his/her culture as
inferior in to other community’s culture.
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Section 5. The Professional Teacher and Information Update

- Section 5 states that the teacher “shall help the school
inform the community about the school’s work,
accomplishments, needs, and problems.
- Community here refers to internal as well as external
stakeholders.
- Why do these stakeholders have to be informed? The school
is there for the community and so the community has the
right to be informed about its activities, accomplishments,
needs and problems. Informing them about the school’s
projects needs and problems give them a sense of resolution of
the school’s problems and needs.
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Community
The Parents-Teachers Association

- We have Parents and Teacher’s Association (PTA) in place in

every schools. Some private schools call it Home School
Association of Family Advisory Council.
- This is for Internal stakeholders only. A PTA is an association
of forum for discussion of the school’s problems and needs.
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Community
The School Government Council
-Other than the PTA is the school governing council. A school governing
council as a policy-making body has the school head as chief executive
officer, manager and chief operation officer.
- It determines the general policies of the school
on student welfare, discipline, well being, development and
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of SIP and reporting
progress of SIP implementation to the school division superintendent
and the community.
- addition to PTA’s are the school governing council in every public
school. The SGC share in the management of the school head. The
school council is another opportunity to communities to participate in
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Section 7. The Professional Teacher, Government Officials and other
Professionals

- Section 7 state’s; ‘ Every teacher shall maintain harmonious an pleasant

personal and official relation with other professional, with government
official and with the people individually or collectively.’
- Desiderate gives this advice; ‘ As far possible, without surrender, be on
good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quitely: and listen to others ,
ven the dull and the arrogant; they too have their story.
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Community
Section 8. The Professional Teacher does not use Professional
Proselyte
- Section 8 says, ‘ A teacher posseses freedom to attend church
and worship as appropriate, but shall not use his position and
influence to proselyte others.’ to be in a position means have
power or influence for a purpose. Besides freedom of religion is
guaranteed by the 1987 philippine constitution. ‘No law shall be
made respecting an establishment of religion, or probihiting the
free exercise thereof the free exercise and development of
religious profession and worship , without discrimination, or
preference, shall forever be allowed.’ (article II, section 6)
Thank you…