G10 lac session

The teacher and business

• Has a right to engage, directly or indirectly, in
legitimate income generation.
• Maintain a good reputation with respect to financial
matters.
• Not to act, directly or indirectly, as agent of or be
financially interested in any commercial venture.
Prelimary videos
 Food for thought
Marjodette Barrantes
Code of ethics
The code
The teacher
 The teacher and the state
• a trustee of the cultural and educational heritage of
the nation
• Elevate national morality, promote national pride,
cultivate love of country
• Actively help carry out the declared policies of the
state.
• Physically, mentally and morally fit.
 The teacher and the state
• Possess and actualize full commitment and devotion
to duty
• Shall not engage in the promotion of any political,
religious or other partisan interest
• Shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional
rights and responsibilities
• Shall enjoy academic freedom
 The teacher and community
• Shall render best services
• Provide leadership and initiative to actively participate
in community movements
• Behave with honor and dignity at all times and refrain
form gambling, smoking, drunkenness and illicit
realtions.
 The teacher and community
• Study and understand local customs and traditions
• Inform the community about schools work,
acomplishments, its needs and problems
• Provide leadership in community when needed,
extend counseling services.
• Possess freedom to attend church and worship
 The teacher and profession
• Ensure that teaching is the noblest profession
• Uphold the highest possible standards of quality
education
• Participate in the continuing Professional Education
program
• Help if duly authorized to seek support for the school
• Use teaching profession in a manner that makes it a
dignified means for earning a decent living.
 The teacher and the teaching
community
• Imbued with the spirit of professional loyalty, mutual
confidence and faith in one another, self- sacrifice for
the common good and full cooperation with
collogues.
• Not to claim for work not of his own and give due
credit for the work of others which he may use.
• Organize and leave to his successor such record and
other data as are necessary to carry on the work
 The teacher and the teaching
community
• May seek correctives for what may appear to be on
unprofessional and unethical conduct of any associate.
• May submit to the proper authorities any justifiable
criticism against an associate preferably in writing,
without violating any right of the individual concerned.
• May apply for a vacant position for which he is qualified,
provided that he respects the system of selection on the
basis of merit and competence.
 The teacher and the learners
• Has the right and duty to determine the academic
marks and promotion of learners in the subjects they
handle.
• Recognize that the interest and welfare of learners are
his first and foremost concern, and handle each learner
justly and impartially.
• Shall not be prejudiced nor discriminate any learner.
• Shall not accept favors or gifts from learners, parents
and others in exchange for requested concessions.
 The teacher and the learners
• Shall not accept, directly or indirectly, any remuneration from
tutorials.
Base evaluation of the learner’s work on merit and quality of
academic performance.
Exercise utmost discretion to avoid scandal, gossip and
preferential treatment of the learner.
Shall not inflict corporal punishment on offending learners nor
make deductions from their scholastic ratings.
Insure that conditions contributive to the maximum
development of learners are adequate.
 The teacher and parents
• Establish and maintain cordial relations with parents.
• Inform parents, through proper authorities of the
progress or deficiencies of learners under him.
• Hear parents’ complaint with sympathy and
understanding
 The teacher as a person
• Live with dignity in all places at all times.
• Place premium upon self-respect and self-discipline.
• Maintain at all times a dignified personality.
• Recognize the Almighty God or Being as guide of his
own destiny and of the destinies of men and nations..
Citizenship essence and vitality

Maria Celia Cagalpin

Head teachers’ time

Helen I. CUevas
Synthesis of the LAC

Santi Esteroza