Teaching: A Profession

• Professional

  (according to Corpus in 2018) an individual possessing skills, competencies or expertise and conforms to a technical and ethical standard of a profession
• Elements of teaching as a profession

  • Initial professional education
  • Accreditation
  • Licensing
  • Professional development
  • Professional societies
  • Code of ethics
• Initial Profession Education

  completing an academic program; this is only the beginning because a professional is expected to learn endlessly
• Accreditation

  academic programs are approved by regulatory bodies to ensure quality and the competence of graduates
• Licensing

  mandatory, not voluntary; administered by a government authority
• Professional Development

  ongoing professional education that maintains or improves professionals' knowledge and skills after they begin professional practice
• RA 10912 - Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016
• Life Long Learning Professionals

  is a character which is necessary for professionals in the 21st century since knowledge and skills are rapidly requiring learned, unlearned, and re-learned.
• Professional Societies

  Professionals are a part of a community of like-minded individuals who put their professional standards above individual self-interest.
• Code of Ethics

  states what professionals should do; professionals can be ejected from their professional societies or lose their license to practice for violating the code of Ethics.
• Historical Development of Teaching as a Profession
• Pre-colonial Period


  no established formal schooling in the country, thus, no formal preparation for teachers too; Parents and tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community
• Spanish Period

  Educational Decree of 1863 established the free public school system; a normal school run by Jesuits was established to educate male teachers. Spanish missionaries served as teachers; onset of training teachers in normal schools
• American Regime

  American soldiers served as the first teachers; a shortage of teachers was experienced so 600 teachers from USA were brought to the Philippines (Thomasites) and Filipinos were given scholarships in the US (scholars=pensionados)
• Fourth Republic of the Philippines(Presidential Decree 1006: Decree Professionalizing Teaching

  Presidential Decree 1006 professionalized teachers and recognized teaching as a "profession" (1976) Board examinations for teachers were given by the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Education and Culture; passers receive a Professional Teachers Certificate
• Fifth Republic of the Philippines(Republic Act 7836: Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994)

  Republic Act 7836 promoted quality education by proper supervision and regulation of the licensure examination and professionalization of the practice of the teaching profession.
• 1765

  "maestro" for each village
• 1772


  specific qualifications for maestros
• American Regime

  Education Act 74: created the Department of Public Instruction; foundations of the public school system and offered free primary education
• Important contributions during the American Regime

  Education Act 74 of 1901 Established the Philippine Normal School (Manila) Initially offered a two-year general secondary education program 1949: offered four-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education