CODE OF ETHICS

FOR
PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS
 Objectives

• Demonstrate understanding of the importance of Code of

Ethics for Professional Teacher;
• articulate the roles of professional teachers stipulated in
every article; and
• apply ethical, moral principles, standards and values as
professional teahers in the performance of daily
endeavors.
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.
 PREAMBLE

Teachers are duly licensed professionals who

possesse dignity and reputation with high moral
values as well as technical and professional
competence in the practice of their noble
profession, and 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 to its full realization, the
provision of this Code shall apply, therefore, to all teachers in
schools in the Philippines.
 Article I: Scope and Limitations

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.
 Article II: The Teacher and the State

Section 1. The 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.
 Article II: The Teacher and the State

Section 2. Every teacher or school official shall actively help

carry out the declared policies of the state, and shall take an
oath to this effect.
Section 3. In the interest of the State and of the Filipino
people as much as of his own, every teacher shall be
physically, mentally and morally fit.
Section 4. Every teacher shall possess and actualize a full
commitment and devotion to duty.
 Article II: The Teacher and the State

Section 5. 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.
Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all
other constitutional rights and responsibility.
 Article II: The Teacher and the State

Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position or official

authority or influence to coerce any other person to follow
any political course of action.
Section 8. 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.
 Article III: 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
service by providing an environment conducive to such
learning and growth.
Section 2. Every teacher shall provide leadership and
initiative to actively participate in community movements for
moral, social, educational, economic and civic betterment.
 Article III: The Teacher and the Community

Section 3. 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.
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.
 Article III: The Teacher and 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 intellectual leader in the
community, especially in the barangay, and shall welcome
the opportunity to provide such leadership when needed, to
extend counselling services, as appropriate, and to actively
be involved in matters affecting the welfare of the people.
 Article III: The Teacher and the Community

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 worships as appropriate, but shall not use his positions
and influence to proselyte others.
 Article IV: A Teacher and the Profession

Section 1. Every teacher shall actively ensure that teaching

is the noblest profession, and shall manifest genuine
enthusiasm and pride in teaching as a noble calling.
Section 2. Every teacher shall uphold the highest possible
standards of quality education, shall make the best
preparations for the career of teaching, and shall be at his
best at all times and in the practice of his profession.
 Article IV: A Teacher and the Profession

Section 3. Every teacher shall participate in the Continuing

Professional Education (CPE) program of the Professional
Regulation Commission, and shall pursue such other studies
as will improve his efficiency, enhance the prestige of the
profession, and strengthen his competence, virtues, and
productivity in order to be nationally and internationally
competitive.
 Article IV: A Teacher and the Profession

Section 4. Every teacher shall help, if duly authorized, to

seek support from the school, but shall not make improper
misrepresentations through personal advertisements and
other questionable means.
Section 5. Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in
a manner that makes it dignified means for earning a decent
living.
 Article V: The Teachers and the Profession

Section 1. Teachers 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
learners, the school, or the profession is at stake in any
controversy, teachers 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.
 Article V: The Teachers and the Profession

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 files without
permission.
 Article V: The Teachers and the Profession

Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every teacher to

seek correctives for what may appear to be an unprofessional
and unethical conduct of any associate. 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.
 Article V: The Teachers and the Profession

Section 7. A teacher may apply for a vacant position for

which he is qualified; provided that he respects the system of
selection on the basis of merit and competence; provided,
further, that all qualified candidates are given the opportunity
to be considered.
icle VI: The Teacher and Higher Authorities in the Profession

Section 1. Every teacher shall make it his duty to make an

honest effort to understand and support the legitimate
policies of the school and the administration regardless of
personal feeling or private opinion and shall faithfully carry
them out.
Section 2. A teacher shall not make any false accusations or
charges against superiors, especially under anonymity.
However, if there are valid charges, he should present such
Article VI: The Teacher and Higher Authorities in the
Profession

Section 3. A teacher shall transact all official business

through channels except when special conditions warrant a
different procedure, such as when special conditions are
advocated but are opposed by immediate superiors, in which
case, the teacher shall appeal directly to the appropriate
higher authority.
 Article VI: The Teacher and Higher Authorities in the
Profession

Section 4. Every teacher, individually or as part of a group,

has a right to seek redress against injustice to the
administration and to extent possible, shall raise grievances
within acceptable democratic possesses. In doing so, they
shall avoid jeopardizing the interest and the welfare of
learners whose right to learn must be respected.
Article VI: The Teacher and Higher Authorities in the
Profession

Section 5. Every teacher has a right to invoke the principle

that appointments, promotions, and transfer of teachers are
made only on the basis of merit and needed 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 employment terms and conditions.
 Article VII: School Officials, Teachers, and Other
Personnel

Section 1. All school officials shall at all times show

professional courtesy, helpfulness and sympathy towards
teachers and other personnel, such practices being standards
of effective school supervision, dignified administration,
responsible leadership and enlightened directions.
Section 2. School officials, teachers, and other school
personnel shall consider it their cooperative responsibility to
formulate policies or introduce important changes in the
system at all levels.
 Article VII: School Officials, Teachers, and Other
Personnel

Section 3. School officials shall encourage and attend the

professional growth of all teachers under them such as
recommending them for promotion, giving them due
recognition for meritorious performance, and allowing them
to participate in conferences in training programs.
Section 4. No school officials shall dismiss or recommend for
dismissal a teacher or other subordinates except for cause.
 Article VII: School Officials, Teachers, and Other
Personnel

Section 5. School authorities concern shall ensure that public

school teachers are employed in accordance with pertinent
civil service rules, and private school teachers are issued
contracts specifying the terms and conditions of their work;
provided that they are given, if qualified, subsequent
permanent tenure, in accordance with existing laws.
 Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners

Section 1. A teacher has a right and duty to determine the

academic marks and the promotions of learners in the subject
or grades he handles, provided that such determination shall
be in accordance with generally accepted procedures of
evaluation and measurement. In case of any complaint,
teachers concerned shall immediately take appropriate
actions, observing due process.
 Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners

Section 2. A teacher shall recognize that the interest and

welfare of learners are of first and foremost concern, and shall
deal justifiably and impartially with each of them.
Section 3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be
prejudiced or discriminate against a learner.
 Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners

Section 4. A teacher shall not accept favours or gifts from

learners, their parents or others in their behalf in exchange
for requested concessions, especially if undeserved.
Section 5. A teacher shall not accept, directly or indirectly,
any remuneration from tutorials other what is authorized for
such service.
 Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners

Section 6. A teacher shall base the evaluation of the

learner’s work only in 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.
 Article VIII: The Teachers and Learners

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
manifestation of poor scholarship.
Section 9. A teacher shall ensure that conditions contribute
to the maximum development of learners are adequate, and
shall extend needed assistance in preventing or solving
learner’s problems and difficulties.
 Article IX: The Teachers and Parents
Section 1. Every teacher shall establish and maintain cordial
relations with parents, and shall conduct himself to merit their
confidence and respect.
Section 2. Every teacher shall inform parents, through
proper authorities, of the progress and deficiencies of learner
under him, exercising utmost candour and tact in pointing out
the learner's deficiencies and in seeking parent’s cooperation
for the proper guidance and improvement of the learners.
Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent’s complaints with
sympathy and understanding, and shall discourage unfair
criticism.
 Article X: 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.
 Article X: The Teacher and Business

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
 Article XI: 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 behaviour in all
relationships with others and in all situations.
 Article XI: The Teacher as a Person

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.
 Article XII: Disciplinary Actions

Section 1. Any violation of any provision of this code shall be

sufficient ground for the imposition against the erring teacher
of the disciplinary action consisting of revocation of his
Certification of Registration and License as a Professional
Teacher, suspension from the practice of teaching profession,
or reprimand or cancellation of his temporary/special permit
under causes specified in Sec. 23, Article III or R.A. No. 7836,
and under Rule 31, Article VIII, of the Rules and Regulations
Implementing R.A. 7836.
 Article XIII: Effectivity

Section 1. This Code shall take effect upon approval by the

Professional Regulation Commission and after sixty (60) days
following its publication in the Official Gazette or any
newspaper of general circulation, whichever is earlier.
THANK YOU!
Direction: Identify what article based on the Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers.

1.No school officials shall dismiss or recommend for dismissal a

teacher or other subordinates except for cause.
2.Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in a manner that
makes it dignified means for earning a decent living.
3.Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional
rights and responsibility.
4.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.
5.A teacher shall not make any false accusations or charges against
superiors, especially under anonymity. However, if there are valid
charges, he should present such under oath to competent
1.No school officials shall dismiss or recommend for dismissal a
teacher or other subordinates except for cause. ARTICLE VII
2.Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in a manner that
makes it dignified means for earning a decent living. ARTICLE IV
3.Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional
rights and responsibility. ARTICLE II
4.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. ARTICLE X
5.A teacher shall not make any false accusations or charges against
superiors, especially under anonymity. However, if there are valid
charges, he should present such under oath to competent
authority.
ARTICLE VI