CPE101
THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Research on the following:
1.) Code of ethics in teaching profession
2.) Rights and privileges of teachers in the Philippines
Submitted by:
Tanguan, Mark Lester Jacosalem
Submitted to:
Prof. Alvin Flores
February 2020
I. INTRODUCTION
Each teacher, upon entering the teaching profession, assumes a number of obligations,
one of which is to adhere to a set of principles which defines a professional conduct. These
principles are reflected in the following code of ethics, which sets forth to the education
profession and the public it serves standards of professional conduct and procedures or
implementation. This code shall apply to all persons licensed according to rules established by
the board of teaching. Furthermore, the professional educator strives to create a learning
environment that nurtures to fulfillment the potential of all students. The professional educator
acts with conscientious effort to exemplify the highest ethical standards. Therefore, the
professional educator responsibly accepts that every child has a right to an uninterrupted
education free from strikes or any other work stoppage tactics.
II. CONTENTS
Ethical conduct towards students
The professional educator accepts personal responsibility for teaching students character
qualities that they will help them evaluate the consequences of and accept the responsibility for
their actions and choices. It should be that the educator deals considerately and justly with each
student, and seeks to resolve problems, including discipline, according to law and school policy.
An educator does not intentionally expose the student to disparagement, hence they should also
not reveal confidential information concerning students, unless required by law. In addition, the
professional teacher endeavors to present facts without distortion, bias, or personal prejudice.
Ethical conduct toward practices and performances
The professional educator assumes responsibility and accountability for his or her
performance and continually strives to demonstrate competence. The professional educator
applies for, accepts, or assigns, a position or a responsibility on the basis of professional
qualifications, and adheres to the terms of a contract or appointment. The professional educator
does not use institutional or professional privileges for personal or partisan advantage.
Ethical conduct toward professional colleagues
The professional teacher, in exemplifying ethical relations with colleagues, accords just
and equitable treatment to all members of the profession. The professional educator does not
reveal confidential information concerning colleagues unless required by the law. The
professional educator does not willfully make false statements about a colleague or the school
system. The professional educator does not interfere with a colleague’s freedom of choice, and
works to eliminate coercion that forces educators to support actions and ideologists that violate
individual professional integrity.
Ethical conduct toward parents and community
The professional educator pledges to protect public sovereignty over public education
and private control or private education. The professional educator makes concerted efforts to
communicate to parents all information that should be revealed in the interest of the student. The
professional educator endeavors to understand and respect the values and traditions of the
diverse cultures represented in the community and in his or her classroom. The professional
educator manifests a positive and active role in school/community relations.
Responsible and ethical use of technology
The professional educator considers the impact of consuming, creating, distributing and
communicating information through all technologies. The ethical educator is vigilant to ensure
appropriate boundaries of time, place and role are maintained when using electronic
communication.
Teachers must model strong character traits, such as perseverance, honesty, respect,
lawfulness, patience, fairness, responsibility and unity. As a teacher, you must treat every student
with kindness, equality and respect, without showing favoritism, prejudice or partiality. Teachers
must wholly commit to the teaching profession. Your classroom should promote safety, security,
and acceptance, always avoiding any form of bullying, hostility dishonesty, neglect or offensive
conduct. A professional code of conduct demands attentiveness to continuing education
requirements and career development. You must research new teaching methods, attend classes
to maintain your certifications, consult colleagues for professional advice, participate in
curriculum improvements and stay up to date on technical advancements for the classroom. In
addition to fostering healthy relationships with students, teachers must build strong relationships
with parents, school staff, colleagues in the community, guidance counselors and administrators.
As a professional teacher, he/she is a facilitator of learning by ensuring that he/she
provides a favorable environment for learning. He/She acts as a leader by initiating and
participating in community activities for the benefit of the community as a whole. As a
community leader he/she deals with other professionals and community officials harmoniously
and professionally. Because he/she wants to work with the community, he/she keeps people
informed of developments in school. He/she does not take advantage of his/her position as a
professional teacher to proselyte. Neither does he/she criticize community customs and tradition.
Instead he/she exerts effort to understand them with a sympathetic attitude. Above all, to be
credible community leader, he/she earns the respect of community by behaving with dignity at
all times and so will not engage in vices such as gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and illicit
relations.
Teacher needs to connect with parents, his/her partners in the education of the learner.
For the partnership to flourish, teacher shall maintain cordial relations with parents. This
relationship remains cordial if a teacher in sincere and tactful in reporting child’s progress.
Should love develop between teacher and student, the professional teacher is expected to
be fair because he/she shall “exercise utmost professional discretion to avoid… preferential
treatment for the learner.” Teacher fairness is assured when a teacher does not accept favor or
gifts from learner of their parents in exchange for requested concessions.
A professional teacher should work in collaboration with his/her fellow teachers. Gossip
destroys collegial relationships. It has no place in a professional community. A brotherly/sisterly
correction for what may appear to be unprofessional and unethical conduct of an associate is an
act that is becoming of a professional.
To go on strike is not a professional. True, professional teachers have a right to seek
redress against injustice or discrimination but should do it in a manner that does not jeopardize
the welfare of learners whose right to learn must be respected. Teachers going on strike
adversely affect learners.
III. CONCLUSION
Teachers help students learn the academic basics, but they also teach valuable life lessons
by setting a positive example. As role models, teachers must follow a professional code of ethics.
This ensures that students receive a fair, honest and uncompromising education. A professional
code of ethics outlines teachers’ main responsibilities to their students and defines their role in
students’ lives. Above all, teachers must demonstrate integrity, impartiality and ethical behavior
in the classroom and in their conduct with parents and coworkers.
I.INTRODUCTION
This deals about the rights and privileges of teachers in the Philippines. Teachers are
protected from certain harms under the equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of
the Constitution. Teachers have the right to be free from discrimination based on race, sex, and
national origin—as well as freedom of expression, academics, privacy, and religion. The concept
of academic freedom can sometimes be open to interpretation. After all, most teachers value the
ability to teach without undue restrictions on content or subject matter. This section focuses on
these and other freedoms and rights teachers enjoy, as well as state and local laws affecting
teacher’s rights.
II. CONTENTS
Freedom from discrimination
The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution protects
teachers at public schools from discrimination based on race, sex, and national origin. These
forms of discrimination are also barred through the enactment of title VII of the Civil Rights
Acts of 1964, which was amended in 1972 to include educational institutions. This law provides
that it is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against an individual
based on the mentioned cases. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides
discrimination based on sex at educational institutions that receive federal financial assistance.
Title VII and IX also prohibit sexual harassment in the workplace. However, to succeed under
this cause of action, the teacher would need to prove that the school had the deliberate intent to
discriminate. Similarly, a teacher bringing a claim under the Title VII must demonstrate that the
reasons given by a school for an employment decision were false and that the actual reason for
the decision was discrimination.
Academic freedom
Teachers in public schools have limited freedoms in the classroom to teach without
undue restrictions on the content or subjects for discussion. These freedoms are based on rights
to freedom of expression under the first Amendments of the Bill of Rights. However, the concept
of academic freedom is quite limited. The content taught by a teacher must be relevant to and
consistent with the teacher’s responsibilities, and a teacher cannot promote a personal or political
agenda in the classroom. Factors such as the age, experience, and grade level of students affect
the latitude in which a court will recognize the academic freedom of a teacher.
Privacy rights
Teachers enjoy limited rights to personal privacy, through the courts will often support
disciplinary action taken by a school district when a teacher’s private life affects the integrity of
the school district or the effectiveness by which a teacher can teach. Thus, for example, a teacher
may be terminated from his or her position for such acts as adultery or other sexual conduct
outside marriage, and courts will be hesitant to overrule the decisions of the school board.
Pregnancy
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 provides protection for teachers who are
pregnant. Under this act, a school district cannot dismiss or demote a pregnant teacher on the
basis of her pregnancy, nor may a district deny a job or deny a promotion to a pregnant teacher
on the basis of her pregnancy.
These are some of the privileges granted are the following:
Study leave
A one-year study leave with pay shall be granted to a teacher who has rendered at least
seven years of satisfactory teaching.
Retirement benefits
Teachers from the public school are given a one-range salary raise upon retirement. A
teacher belonging to step 3, for instance, will be classified upon retirement as within step 4 of the
next range. The salary for the higher range and monthly salary for the higher range and monthly
salary for the last three years before effective date of retirement will be the basis or computation
of the lump sum retirement pay.
Vacation and sick leave
Vacation and sick leave are cumulative and any part which may not be taken within the
school calendar year may be carried over to the succeeding year. A sick teacher who has used his
accrued leave privileges is entitled to go sick leave without pay.
Compulsory insurance
Provides for life and retirement insurance. Membership in the GSIS is compulsory upon
all teachers, except those who are substitute, upon all regularly and permanently appointed
school employees.
Vacation pay
All teachers, except those who are on vacation and sick leave basis. They are all entitled
to pay during the Christmas and long vacation. Temporary teachers who have served at least six
months are also entitled to vacation pay. Teacher’s vacation pay may be commuted or paid in
advance.
Service credits
A teacher on the teacher’s leave basis is given service credit when he is asked to work
during the vacation period. This service credit may be used to offset past and future absences due
to illness or other reasonable causes.
Salary loan
Public school teachers are allowed to borrow money from the Government Insurance
System, an amount not to exceed his monthly salary.
Free medical consultation
The public school teachers are required to have annual physical check-up. They are given
free medical consultation by the school physician.
Compensation for injuries
Teachers are protected against the consequences of employment injuries. The effects of
the physical and nervous strain in the teacher’s health shall recognized as a compensable
occupational disease in accordance with the existing laws.
Cost of living and special hardship allowance
The teacher’s salaries shall keep pace with the rise in the cost of living by the payment of
a cost-of-living allowance which shall automatically changes in a cost-of –living index. Special
hardship allowance is enjoyed by public school teachers in areas who are exposed to hardship.
Enjoy academic freedom
The right of the teacher to an atmosphere of academic freedom in the discharge of his
professional duties. Teachers are therefore free to use any method of teaching they think best for
the pupils.
Working hours for teachers
Teachers engaged in actual classroom teaching are required to render more than six hours
but not exceeding eight hours of actual classroom teaching a day upon payment of additional
compensation.
Tenure of office
Regular or permanent public school teachers and officials are granted stability of
employment and security of tenure. Teachers appointed on a provisional status or temporary who
rendered ten years of continuous, efficient, and faithful service as of June 18, 1966, and all
teachers who have rendered ten years, of extended permanent appointment.
Filipino teachers ought to be aware and knowledgeable of these well-deserved benefits.
There is no other Constitution in the history of the country that has given importance to teachers
more than the 1987 Phil. Constitution.
The 1987 Constitution states: … the state shall enhance the right of teachers to
professional advancement. It shall “assign the highest budgetary priority to education to “ensure
that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through
adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.”
Commonwealth 578 amended the Revised Penal Code to include teachers, professors and
persons charged with the supervision of public or duly recognized private schools, colleges and
universities, within the term “persons in authority.”
RA 4670, otherwise known as the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers, details the
rights, privileges and benefits of teachers such as: 1) consent for transfer; 2) safeguard in
disciplinary procedures; 3) no discrimination; 4) married couples to be employed in the same
locality; 5) academic freedom; 6) not more than 6 hours in actual classroom teaching; 7)
additional compensation for activities outside normal duties; 8) salaries comparable to other
occupations to ensure teachers a reasonable standard of life for themselves and their families; 9)
salaries appropriated by local governments not to be less than those paid to teachers the national
government; 10) cost of living allowance; 11) special hardship allowances: 12) medical
examination free of charge once a year during the teacher’s professional life; 13) prohibition of
unauthorized deduction form teachers’ salaries; 14) study leave; 15) indefinite leave; 16) salary
increased upon retirement and 17) freedom to establish or join organization of their choice.
These show that the welfare of professional teachers has been given much attention. After
all, there is no truth to what is often said about teachers “overworked or underpaid.”
III. CONCLUSION
Some of those violations mentioned above has actually occurred, therefore we as an
individual we must protect the educators here in the Philippines because the fact that they are the
ones who gives all their flesh and strength in order to render that particular service. As per cases
we must not have scattered it instead let us all break all those for them to move seamlessly.
Teachers have the right to be free from discrimination based on race, sex, and national origin—
as well as freedom of expression, academics, privacy, and religion. The concept of academic
freedom can sometimes be open to interpretation. Teachers are really beautiful, watching them in
front of us whether you like it or not, it really makes me chill, they seem like an angel of mercy.
We know that teachers have all those qualifications, so they must be loved and honored with all
ours.
