The Teaching Profession

• Teaching has become very complex and demanding of the teachers’ knowledge, skills and values needed in the discharge of their duties and responsibilities for the 21st century teaching – learning arena.
• Teachers must have global skills and perspectives in their teaching approaches for they are the key players in ensuring high quality education skills and career preparedness for all young people.
• Teachers must not only be knowledgeable, competence, skillful but also behaviour and multi-culture specialists to be able to apply differentiated instruction and understand diverse learning needs.
• Teaching as a vocation and mission is a further discussion in Lesson 2.
• Teachers are duly licensed professionals who possess dignity and reputation with high moral values as well as technical and professional competence in the practice of their noble profession, they strictly adhere to, observe, and practice this set of ethical and moral principles, standard, and values.
• Teaching is about inspiring and motivating students to realize and exceed their potentials.
• The greatest teachers of all time have devoted their life in inspiring and empowering their students to achieve great things and be a good human being.
• In the words “ professional manner” , “ gawang propesyonal,” “professional fee foe expert services rendered “ the word “professional” implies one who possesses skill and competence/expertise.
• “Highly professional” “unprofessional” … to act that way imply a code of ethics by which a professional person abide.
• Professional is one who conforms to the technical or ethical standards of a profession.
• The other elements of a profession are Initial Professional Education, Continuing Professional Education, and Professional Regulation.
• Professionals generally begin their professional lives by completing a university program in their chosen fields - teacher education, engineering, nursing accountancy.
• This means long and ardous years of preparation.
• If you keep on teaching out of love, it’s a mission.
• The task entrusted to you in this world is to teach.
• Your unique and most significant contribution to the humanization of life on earth is in the field for which you are prepared- teaching.
• Your mission preparation should not culminate at the end of the four-year pre-service education as you have embarked on a mission that calls for a continuing professional development.
• To teach is to influence every child entrusted in your care to become better and happier because life becomes more meaningful.
• Vocation and mission are related.
• If your concern is success plus faithfulness, it’s a mission.
• If you remain teaching even though nobody recognizes your efforts, it makes you get excited.
• You were called for a purpose, i.e., to accomplish a mission on earth which is to teach.
• From now on, you cannot take your studies for granted as your four years of pre-service preparation will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and attitude to become an effective teacher.
• To teach is to help the child become more human.
• Teaching is indeed your mission if you are doing it not only for the pay but also for service.
• If you are committed to teaching even if it means letting go of other activities, it’s a mission.
• As the saying goes, “once a teacher, forever a student.”
• The chairman and the voice- chairman of the Board are appointed from these five (5) members by the President.
• The Board determines and fixes the frequency, dates, and places of examination, appoints supervisors, proctors, and other personnel as needed who are entitled to a daily allowance to be fixed by the Board for every examination day actually attended, uses buildings and facilities of public or private schools for examination purposes, issues, suspends, or revoices the certificate of registration for the practice of the teaching profession, prescribes and collects examination and other fees as it may deem proper, prescribes and/or adopts a code of ethical and professional standards for the pract
• The Board discharges such other powers, duties and functions as the Board may deem necessary for the practice of the teaching profession and the upgrading, enhancement, development and growth of education in the Philippines.
• Each Board member must at the time of his appointment: be a citizen and resident of the Philippines, be at least thirty-five years old, and possess all the qualifications prescribed in Section 8 of this Act.
• The Board investigates violations of this Act, the rules and the code of ethical and professional standards for professional teachers as it may come to the knowledge of the Board, and for this purpose, it issues subpoena and subpoena duces tecum to secure the appearance of witnesses and the production of documents.
• Teachers refer to all persons engaged in teaching at the elementary and secondary levels, whether on full-time or part-time basis, including industrial arts or vocational teachers and all other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools in the aforesaid levels and qualified to practice teaching under this Act.
• The members of the Board hold office for a term of three (3) years from the date they assume office, with the first appointees to the Board under this Act serving different terms.
• The Board for Professional Teachers is a collegial body under the general supervision and administrative control of the Professional Regulation Commission, composed of five (5) members who are appointed by the President of the Philippines from among the recommendees chosen by the Commission.
• The Board promulgates, administers and enforces rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act in accordance with the charter of the Professional Regulation Commission.
• Professional teachers shall be given two years from the organization of the Board to register and be included in the roster of professional teachers.
• The Board shall formulate and adopt the necessary guidelines for the effective implementation of the provisions of this Act within sixty (60) days of its approval.
• Those who have failed the licensure examination for professional teachers shall be eligible as para-teachers and as such, shall be issued by the Board a special or temporary permit, and shall be assigned by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) to schools as it may determine under the circumstances.
• 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 professional license from the Commission.