TEACHER

1. The Preamble and Article I

2. Relationship with the Secondary and
Tertiary Stakeholders
3. Relationship with the Internal Stakeholders
4. His/Her Person, Profession, and Business
Lesson 2.1: The Code of
Ethics for Professional
Teachers
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: The Preamble and Article 1
Objectives
• Discuss the Preamble and Article 1 of the
Code of Ethics for Teachers in the
Philippines
• Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (e),
Article 11, of R.A. No. 7836, otherwise
known as the Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act of 1994 and
paragraph (a), section 6, P.D. No. 223, as
amended, the Board for Professional
Teachers hereby adopt the Code of Ethics for
Professional Teachers.
Preamble
Teachers are duly licensed professionals who
possesses dignity and reputation with high
moral values as well as technical and
professional competence in the practice of
their noble profession, and they strictly adhere
to, observe, and practice this set of ethical and
moral principles, standards, and values.
Article I: Scope and Limitations
Section 1. The Philippine Constitution
provides that all educational institution shall
offer quality education for all competent
teachers. Committed to its full realization, the
provision of this Code shall apply, therefore, to
all teachers in schools in the Philippines.
Section 2. This Code covers all public and private
school teachers in all educational institutions at
the preschool, primary, elementary, and
secondary levels whether academic, vocational,
special, technical, or non-formal. The term
“teacher” shall include industrial arts or
vocational teachers and all other persons
performing supervisory and /or administrative
functions in all school at the aforesaid levels,
whether on full time or part-time basis.
Lesson 2.1: The Code of
Ethics for Professional
Teachers
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: Relationship with the
Secondary and Tertiary Stakeholders
Objectives
• Explain how professional teachers should
relate to the state, community and parents all
education stakeholders.
Article II: The Teacher and the
State
• Section 1. The schools are the nurseries of the
future citizens of the state; each teacher is a
trustee of the cultural and educational heritage
of the nation and is under obligation to
transmit to learners such heritage as well as to
elevate national morality, promote national
pride, cultivate love of country, instill
allegiance to the constitution and for all duly
constituted authorities, and promote obedience
to the laws of the state.
Section 2. Every teacher or school official
shall actively help carry out the declared
policies of the state, and shall take an oath to
this effect.
Section 3. In the interest of the State and of the
Filipino people as much as of his own, every
teacher shall be physically, mentally and
morally fit.
Section 4. Every teacher shall possess and
actualize a full commitment and devotion to
duty.
Section 5. A teacher shall not engage in the
promotion of any political, religious, or other
partisan interest, and shall not, directly or
indirectly, solicit, require, collect, or receive any
money or service or other valuable material
from any person or entity for such purposes.
Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall
exercise all other constitutional rights and
responsibility.
Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position
or official authority or influence to coerce any
other person to follow any political course of
action.
Section 8. Every teacher shall enjoy academic
freedom and shall have privilege of
expounding the product of his researches and
investigations; provided that, if the results are
inimical to the declared policies of the State,
they shall be brought to the proper authorities
for appropriate remedial action.
Article III: The Teacher and the
Community
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Every teacher shall provide leadership and
initiative to actively participate in community movements for
moral, social, educational, economic and civic betterment.
Section 3. Every teacher shall merit reasonable social
recognition for which purpose he shall behave with honor and
dignity at all times and refrain from such activities as
gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and other excesses, much
less illicit relations.
Section 4. Every teacher shall live for and with
the community and shall, therefore, study and
understand local customs and traditions in
order to have sympathetic attitude, therefore,
refrain from disparaging the community.
Section 5. Every teacher shall help the school
keep the people in the community informed
about the school’s work and accomplishments
as well as its needs and problems.
Section 6. Every teacher is intellectual leader in the
community, especially in the barangay, and shall
welcome the opportunity to provide such
leadership when needed, to extend counseling
services, as appropriate, and to actively be involved
in matters affecting the welfare of the people.
Section 7. Every teacher shall maintain harmonious
and pleasant personal and official relations with
other professionals, with government officials, and
with the people, individually or collectively.
Section 8. A teacher posses freedom to attend
church and worships as appropriate, but shall
not use his positions and influence to proselyte
others.
Article IX: The Teachers and
Parents
• Section 1. Every teacher shall establish and maintain
cordial relations with parents, and shall conduct
himself to merit their confidence and respect.
• Section 2. Every teacher shall inform parents,
through proper authorities, of the progress and
deficiencies of learner under him, exercising utmost
candor and tact in pointing out the learner's
deficiencies and in seeking parent’s cooperation for
the proper guidance and improvement of the
learners.
• Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent’s
complaints with sympathy and
understanding, and shall discourage unfair
criticism.
Lesson 2.1: The Code of
Ethics for Professional
Teachers
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: Relationship with the
Internal Stakeholders
Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners
• Section 1. A teacher has a right and duty to
determine the academic marks and the
promotions of learners in the subject or
grades he handles, provided that such
determination shall be in accordance with
generally accepted procedures of evaluation
and measurement. In case of any complaint,
teachers concerned shall immediately take
appropriate actions, observing due process.
• Section 2. A teacher shall recognize that the
interest and welfare of learners are of first and
foremost concern, and shall deal justifiably and
impartially with each of them.
• Section 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher
be prejudiced or discriminate against a learner.
• Section 4. A teacher shall not accept favors or
gifts from learners, their parents or others in their
behalf in exchange for requested concessions,
especially if undeserved.
• Section 5. A teacher shall not accept, directly or
indirectly, any remuneration from tutorials other what
is authorized for such service.
• Section 6. A teacher shall base the evaluation of the
learner’s work only in merit and quality of academic
performance.
• Section 7. In a situation where mutual attraction and
subsequent love develop between teacher and learner,
the teacher shall exercise utmost professional
discretion to avoid scandal, gossip and preferential
treatment of the learner.
• Section 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal
punishment on offending learners nor make
deductions from their scholastic ratings as a
punishment for acts which are clearly not
manifestation of poor scholarship.
• Section 9. A teacher shall ensure that conditions
contribute to the maximum development of
learners are adequate, and shall extend needed
assistance in preventing or solving learner’s
problems and difficulties.
Article V: The Teachers and the
Teaching Community
Section 1. Teachers shall, at all times, be
imbued with the spirit of professional loyalty,
mutual confidence, and faith in one another,
self-sacrifice for the common good, and full
cooperation with colleagues. When the best
interest of the learners, the school, or the
profession is at stake in any controversy,
teachers shall support one another.
Section 2. A teacher is not entitled to claim
credit or work not of his own, and shall give
due credit for the work of others which he may
use.
Section 3. Before leaving his position, a
teacher shall organize for whoever assumes the
position such records and other data as are
necessary to carry on the work.
Section 4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all
confidential information concerning associates
and the school, and shall not divulge to anyone
documents which has not been officially released,
or remove records from files without permission.
Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every
teacher to seek correctives for what may appear to
be an unprofessional and unethical conduct of any
associate. However, this may be done only if there
is incontrovertible evidence for such conduct.
Section 6. A teacher may submit to the proper
authorities any justifiable criticism against an
associate, preferably in writing, without violating
the right of the individual concerned.
Section 7. A teacher 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; provided, further, that all
qualified candidates are given the opportunity to
be considered.
Article VI: The Teacher and Higher
Authorities in the Profession
Section 1. Every teacher shall make it his duty to
make an honest effort to understand and support
the legitimate policies of the school and the
administration regardless of personal feeling or
private opinion and shall faithfully carry them out.
Section 2. A teacher shall not make any false
accusations or charges against superiors,
especially under anonymity. However, if there are
valid charges, he should present such under oath
to competent authority.
Section 3. A teacher shall transact all official
business through channels except when special
conditions warrant a different procedure, such
as when special conditions are advocated but
are opposed by immediate superiors, in which
case, the teacher shall appeal directly to the
appropriate higher authority.
• Section 4. Every teacher, individually or as
part of a group, has a right to seek redress
against injustice to the administration and to
extent possible, shall raise grievances within
acceptable democratic possesses. In doing so,
they shall avoid jeopardizing the interest and
the welfare of learners whose right to learn
must be respected.
• Section 5. Every teacher has a right to invoke
the principle that appointments, promotions,
and transfer of teachers are made only on the
basis of merit and needed in the interest of
the service.
• Section 6. A teacher who accepts a position
assumes a contractual obligation to live up to
his contract, assuming full knowledge of
employment terms and conditions.
Lesson 2.1: The Code of
Ethics for Professional
Teachers
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: His/Her Person, Profession,
and Business
Article IV: A Teacher and the
Profession
Section 1. Every teacher shall actively insure
that teaching is the noblest profession, and shall
manifest genuine enthusiasm and pride in
teaching as a noble calling.
Section 2. Every teacher shall uphold the
highest possible standards of quality education,
shall make the best preparations for the career
of teaching, and shall be at his best at all times
and in the practice of his profession.
Section 3. Every teacher shall participate in the
Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
program of the Professional Regulation
Commission, and shall pursue such other
studies as will improve his efficiency, enhance
the prestige of the profession, and strengthen
his competence, virtues, and productivity in
order to be nationally and internationally
competitive.
Section 4. Every teacher shall help, if duly
authorized, to seek support from the school,
but shall not make improper
misrepresentations through personal
advertisements and other questionable means.
Section 5. Every teacher shall use the teaching
profession in a manner that makes it dignified
means for earning a descent living.
Article XI: The Teacher as a
Person
• Section 1. A teacher is, above all, a human being endowed with
life for which it is the highest obligation to live with dignity at
all times whether in school, in the home, or elsewhere.
• Section 2. A teacher shall place premium upon self-discipline as
the primary principle of personal behavior in all relationships
with others and in all situations.
• Section 3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified
personality which could serve as a model worthy of emulation
by learners, peers and all others.
• Section 4. A teacher shall always recognize the Almighty God
as guide of his own destiny and of the destinies of men and
nations.
Article X: The Teacher and
Business
• Section 1. A teacher has the right to engage,
directly or indirectly, in legitimate income
generation; provided that it does not relate to
or adversely affect his work as a teacher.
• Section 2. A teacher shall maintain a good
reputation with respect to the financial
matters such as in the settlement of his debts
and loans in arranging satisfactorily his
private financial affairs.
• Section 3. No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly,
as agent of, or be financially interested in, any
commercial venture which furnish textbooks and
other school commodities in the purchase and
disposal of which he can exercise official influence,
except only when his assignment is inherently,
related to such purchase and disposal; provided they
shall be in accordance with the existing regulations;
provided, further, that members of duly recognized
teachers cooperatives may participate in the
distribution and sale of such commodities.
The End