TEACHING PROPESYON

• Professional


  One who possesses skill and competence / expertise
• Highly professional


  Implies a code of ethics by which a professional person abides
• Elements of a profession

  • Competence
  • Code of Ethics
• Other elements of a profession

  • Initial Professional Education
  • Accreditation
  • Licensing
  • Professional Development
  • Professional Societies
• Initial Professional Education


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


  University programs are approved by a regulatory body like the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in the Philippines to ensure that graduates from these recognized programs start their professional lives with competence
• Licensing

  Mandatory, not voluntary and is administered by a government authority like the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in the Philippines
• Professional Development


  Ongoing professional education that maintains or improves professionals' knowledge and skills after they begin professional practice
• Professional Societies


  Professionals see themselves as part of a community of like-minded individuals who put their professional standards above the individual self-interest or their employer's self interest
• Code of Ethics


  Ensures the practitioners of a profession behave responsibly, states who professionals should do
• Violation of the Code of Ethics for professional teachers is one of the grounds for the revocation of the professional teacher's Certificate of Registration and suspension from the practice of the teaching profession
• What society expects of teachers as professionals

  1. Teaches with competence

  2. E

  3. A

  4. C

  5. H

  6. E

  7. R
• Teaching is a profession that requires long years of initial professional education, the attainment of a college/university degree recognized by a regulatory body, a licensure examination, Continuing Professional Development, and adherence to the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
• PD 1006 issued by President Ferdinand E. Marcos professionalized teaching in the Philippines


  1976
• RA 7836, the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994, was passed to promote quality education by proper supervision and regulation of the licensure examination and professionalization of the practice of the teaching profession
• During the pre-Hispanic period, there was no established formal schooling in the country and no formal preparation for teachers
• During the Spanish period, the Spanish missionaries served as teachers and the Jesuits started training teachers in normal schools
• During the American regime, American soldiers served as the first teachers and the Philippine Commission authorized the Secretary of Public Instruction to bring 600 teachers from the USA, known as the Thomasites
• The Philippine Normal School formally opened in September 1901 as an institution for the training of teachers
• In 1949, the Philippine Normal School, renamed Philippine Normal College, offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education
• Vocation


  Comes from the Latin word "vocare" which means to call
• Mission


  Comes from the Latin word "mission" which means "to send"
• Teaching is a vocation and a mission
• Your four years of pre-service preparation will equip you with the knowledge, skills and attitude to become an effective teacher
• Continuing professional development is necessary as the saying goes "once a teacher, forever a student"
• To teach is to influence every child entrusted in your care to become better and happier because life becomes more meaningful
• Dr. Josette T. Biyo: 'Teaching may not be a lucrative position. It cannot guarantee financial security. It ever means investing your personal time, energy, and resources. Sometimes it means disappointments, heartaches, and pains. But touching the hearts of people and opening the minds of children can give you joy and contentment which money could not buy. These are the moments I teach for: These are the moments I live for.'
• 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
• 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, instil allegiance to the constitution and for all duly constituted authorities, and promote obedience to the laws of the state
• Every teacher or school official shall actively help carry out the declared policies of the state, and shall take an oath to this effect
• Every teacher shall possess and actualize a full commitment and devotion to duty
• 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
• Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional rights and responsibility
• A teacher shall not use his position or official authority or influence to coerce any other person to follow any political course of action
• 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
• 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
• Every teacher shall provide leadership and initiative to actively participate in community movements for moral, social, educational, economic and civic betterment
• Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for which purpose he shall behave with honour and dignity at all times and refrain from such activities as gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and other excesses, much less illicit relations
• 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
• 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