CHAPTER 3: The Code of Ethics

for Professional Teachers

KURT JOHN PAUL CARINO CHRISTELLE ANNE TORRES
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: The Preamble and
Article I
Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (e). Article
11, of R. A.. No. 7836, otherwise known as the
Philippines 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.
PREAMBLE
Teachers are duly licensed professionals who
possesses 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, standards, and values.
ARTICLE I-SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

Section 1. The Philippine Constitution provides

that all educational institution shall offer quality
education for all competent teachers committed
of it's full realization The provision of this Code
shall apply, therefore, to all teachers in schools
in the Philippines.
Section 2. This Code covers all public and private
school teachers in all educational institutions at the
preschool, primary, elementary, and secondary levels
whether academic, vocational, special, technical, or
non-formal. The term "teacher" shall include
industrial arts. or vocational teachers and all other
persons performing supervisory and/or administrative
functions in all school at the aforesaid levels,
whether on full time or part-time basis.
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: Relationship with the
Secondary and Tertiary Stakeholders
 THE TEACHER AND THE STATE
Section 1. The schools are the nurseries of the citizens of
the state.

Section 2.Every teacher or school oficial shall actively help

carry out the declared policies of the stateand shall take an
oath to this effect.

Section 3. In the interest of the State of the Filipino people

as much as of his own, every teacher shall bephysically,
mentally, and morally fit.
Section 4. Every teacher shall possess and actualize full
commitment and devotion to duty.

Section 5. A teacher shall not engage in the promotion of

any political, religious, or other partisaninterest, and shall
not, directly, or indirectly, solicit, require, collect, or receive
any money, service, othervaluable material from any person
or entity for such purposes.

Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all

other constitutional rights and responsibilities.
Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position or oficial
authority of inluence to coerce any other personto follow
any political course of action.

Section 8. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom

and shall have the privilege of sharing the product of his
research and investigations, provided that, if the results are
inimical to the declared policies of theState, they shall be
drawn to the proper authorities for appropriate remedial
action.
 THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY

Section 1. A teacher is a facilitator of learning and of the

development of the youth; he shall, therefore,render the
best services by providing an environment and growth.

Section 2. Every teacher shall provide leadership and

initiative to actively participate in communitymovements for
moral, social, educational, economic, and civic betterment.
Section 3. Every teacher shall merit reasonable social
recognition for which purpose he shall behave with honor
and dignity at all times and refrain for such activities as
gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and other excesses,
much less illicit relations.

Section 4. 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.
Section 5. 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.

Section 6. Every teacher is an intellectual leader

community, especially in the in the barangay, and shall
welcome the opportunity to provide such leadership when
needed, to extend counseling services, as appropriate,
and to actively he involved in matters affecting the
welfare of the people.
Section 7. Every teacher shall maintain harmonious
and pleasant personal and official relations with other
professionals, with government officials, and with the
people, individually or collectively.

Section 8. A teacher possesses freedom to attend

church and worship, as appropriate, but shall not use
his position and influence on proselyte others.
 THE TEACHER AND THE PARENTS
Section 1. A teacher shall establish and maintain cordial
relations with parents and shall conduct himself to merit
their confidence and respect.

Section 2. A teacher shall inform parents, through proper

authorities, of the progress or deficiencies of learners under
him, exercising utmost candor and tact in pointing out
learners' deficiencies and in seeking parent's cooperation
for the proper guidance and improvement of learners.
Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent's
complaints with sympathy and understanding
and shall discourage unfair criticism.
 The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: Relationship with the Internal
Stakeholders
 THE TEACHER AND THE LEARNERS
SECTION 1. A teacher has the right and duty to determine
the academic marks and the promotion of learners in the
subjects the handle.

SECTION 2. A teacher shall recognize that the interest

and welfare of learners are his first and foremost concern
and shall handle each impartially. learner justly and
impartially.
SECTION 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be
prejudiced nor discriminatory against any learner.

SECTION 4. A teacher shall not accept favors or gifts from

learners, their parents or others in their behalf in exchange
for requested concessions, especially if under served.

SECTION 5. A teacher shall not accept, directly or indirectly,

any remuneration from tutorials other than what is
authorized for such service.
SECTION 6. A teacher shall base the evaluation of
the learner's work on merit and quality of academic
performance.

SECTION 7. In a situation where mutual attraction

and subsequent love develop between teacher and
learner, the teacher shall exercise utmost
professional discretion to avoid scandal, gossip and
preferential treatment of the learner.
SECTION 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal
punishment on offending learners nor make deductions
from their scholastic ratings as a punishment for acts
which are clearly not manifestations of poor scholarship.

SECTION 9. A teacher shall insure that conditions

contributive to the maximum development of learners are
adequate and shall extend needed assistance in
preventing or solving learner's problem and difficulties.
THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
SECTION 1. A teacher shall make it his duty to make an
honest effort tot understand and support the legitimate
policies of the school and the administration regardless of
professional feeling or private opinion and shall faithfully
carry them out.

SECTION 2. A teacher shall not make any false accusation

or charges against superiors, especially under anonymity.
However, if there are valid charges, he should present such
under oath to competent authority.
SECTION 3. A teacher shall transact all official business
through channels except when special conditions warrant a
different procedure, such as when reforms are advocated
but are opposed by the immediate superior, in which case
the teachers shall appeal directly to the appropriate higher
authority.

SECTION 4. A teacher, individually or as part of a group,

has a right to seek redress against injustice and
discrimination and to the extent possible, shall raise his
grievances within democratic processes.
SECTION 5. A teacher has a right to invoke the
principle that appointments, promotions and transfer
of teachers are made only on the basis of merit and
need in the interest of the service.

SECTION 6. A teacher who accepts a position

assumes a contractual obligation to live up to his
contract, assuming full knowledge of the employment
terms and conditions.
The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers: His/Her Person,
Profession and Business
 THE TEACHER AND THE PROFESSION
Section 1. Teacher shall, at all times, be imbued with the
spirit of professional loyalty, mutual confidence, and faith in
one another, self sacrifice for the common good, and full
cooperation with colleagues. When the best interest of the
leamers, the school, or the profession is at stake in any
controversy, teacher shall support one another.

Section 2. A teacher is not entitled to claim credit or work not

of his own, and shall give due credit for the work of others
which he may use.
Section 3. Before leaving his position, a teacher shall
organize for whoever assumes the position such records and
other data as are necessary to carry on the work.

Section 4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all confidential

information concerning associates and the school, and shall
not divulge to anyone documents which has not been
officially released, or remove records from the files without
permission.
Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every teacher to
seek correctives for what he may appear to be an
unprofessional and unethical conduct of any associates.
However, this may be done only if there is incontrovertible
evidence for such conduct.

Section 6. A teacher may submit to the proper authorities

any justifiable criticism against an associate, preferably in
writing, without violating the right of the individual
concerned.
 THE TEACHER AS A PERSON
Section 1. A teacher is, above all, a human being
endowed with life for which it is the highest
obligation to live with dignity at all times whether in
school, in the home, or elsewhere.

Section 2. A teacher shall place premium upon self-

discipline as the primary principle of personal
behavior in all relationships with others and in all
situations.
Section 3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a
dignified personality which could serve as a model
worthy of emulation by learners, peers and all
others.

Section 4. A teacher shall always recognize the

Almighty God as guide of his own destiny and of the
destinies of men and nations.
 THE TEACHER AND BUSINESS
Section 1. A teacher has the right to engage, directly or
indirectly, in legitimate income generation; provided that it
does not relate to or adversely affect his work as a teacher.

Section 2. A teacher shall maintain a good reputation with

respect to the financial matters such as in the settlement of
his debts and loans in arranging satisfactorily his private
financial affairs.
Section 3. No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly, as
agent of, or be financially interested in, any commercial
venture which furnish textbooks and other school
commodities in the purchase and disposal of which he can
exercise official influence, except only when his assignment
is inherently, related to such purchase and disposal;
provided they shall be in accordance with the existing
regulations; provided, further, that members of duly
recognized teachers cooperatives may participate in the
distribution and sale of such commodities.
THANK YOU!