Ma'am Weng

• Elements of a profession

  • Competence
  • Code of Ethics
  • Initial Professional Education
  • Accreditation
  • Licensing
  • Professional Development
  • Professional Societies
• Professionalism implies a code of ethics by which a professional person abides
• Code of Ethics

  Ensures practitioners behave responsibly and states what professionals should do
• Professional Development


  Ongoing education to maintain or improve professionals' knowledge and skills
• Accreditation


  University programs are approved by a regulatory body to ensure graduates start their professional lives with competence
• Teaching profession in the Philippines is governed by the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
• R. A 7836, known as the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994, was passed

  1994
• Initial Professional Education

  Professionals begin their professional lives by completing a university program in their chosen fields
• Professional


  Implies one who possesses skill and competence / expertise
• Professional Societies


  Community of like-minded individuals who put professional standards above individual self-interest
• Licensing


  Mandatory and administered by a government authority to regulate professional practice
• Violation of the Code of Ethics for professional teachers is one of the grounds for revocation of the professional teacher's Certificate of Registration and suspension from the practice of the teaching profession
• Profession


  Conforms to the technical or ethical standards of a profession
• PD 1006 known as the Decree Professionalizing Teaching was issued


  1976
• During the pre-Hispanic period, there was no established formal schooling in the country, so there was no formal preparation for teachers. Mothers, fathers, and tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community
• The Act 74 of 1901 also provided for the establishment of the Philippine Normal School (PNS) in Manila
• During the Spanish period, a free public school system was established by the Educational Decree of 1863
• In 1949, the Philippine Normal School was renamed Philippine Normal College and offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education
• Schools during the Spanish era were closed for a time by Aguinaldo’s government at the end of the Spanish rule
• During the pre-Hispanic period, there was no established formal schooling in the country
• Normal schools for male teachers were established by the Jesuits in Manila
• Vocation comes from the Latin word "vocare" which means to call
• In 1901, the Philippine Commission enacted Act 74 which created the Department of Public Instruction and offered free primary education for Filipinos
• Abraham, Moses, Mary, and Muhammad are examples of individuals who responded positively to God's call in different religions
• Vocation can refer to a call to do something like teaching, healing the sick, etc., and the call is always to serve
• Normal schools for women were not established until 1875
• American soldiers served as the first teachers during the American regime
• The Philippine Commission authorized the Secretary of Public Instruction to bring 600 teachers from the USA to the Philippines, known as the Thomasites
• Mothers, fathers, and tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community
• Spanish missionaries served as teachers in the schools during the Spanish period
• The present four-year preparation for the professional teacher began as a two-year program and became four years only in 1949
• The Bible is full of stories of men and women who were called by God to do something for others
• The Philippine Normal School formally opened in September 1901 as an institution for the training of teachers
• Vocation means a call, with a caller and someone who is called, and a response
• Mary: '"Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done to me according to your word"'
• Teaching is a mission, where mission means "to send" and is a task assigned
• Teaching is to influence every child entrusted in your care to become better and happier because life becomes more meaningful
• Buddha must have also heard the call to abandon his royal life in order to seek the answer to the problem of suffering
• In Islam, Muhammad was the last of the prophets called by Allah to spread His teachings
• Your mission in the world as a teacher is to teach, the task entrusted to you