This will guide a students how to teach.

1. Group 1 Presentation
the teaching
profession

2. 1. Describe teaching as a profession.
2. Identify the elements of a profession
3.Discuss the historical development of
teaching as a profession in the
Philippines.
4. Explain teaching as a vocation and
mission.
OBJICTIVES

3. 1. Initial Profession Education
- The completion of the university/college in one’s chosen
field
2. Accreditation
- The university/college program is approved by a
regulatory body like the Commission on Higher Education in the
Philippines
3. Licensing
- Is mandatory, not voluntary which is administered by a
government authority
A. THE ELEMENTS OF PROFESSION:

4. 4. Professional Development
- Is an ongoing professional education that
maintains/improves the professionals’ knowledge and skills after they
begin professional practice
5. Professional Societies
- Are a community of like-minded individuals who put
their professional standards above the individual self-interest or their
employer’s self-interest
6. Code of Ethnics
- To ensure that the practitioners behave responsibly

5. 1. Presidential Decree 1006
-The first legal document that professional teaching issued by then
President Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1976
2. Republic Act 7836 – Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act
of 1984
- Was passed to…” promote quality education by proper supervision and
regulation of the licensure examination and professionalization of the
practice of the teaching profession”
b. Historical Development of Teaching Profession
in the Philippines

6. 3. Pre-Hispanic Period
- Had no established formal schooling in the country so there was no
formal preparation for teachers, too and so the mothers , fathers and
tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community
4. Spanish Period- by virtue of Education Decree of 1863
- Free public school system was established, there was one school for
boys and another schools for girls in every municipality, the Spanish
missionaries served as teachers, the normal school was run by the Jesuits
to educate the male teachers in Manila, the normal schools for women
were established in 1875

7. 5. Aguinaldo’s Government
- There was no teacher preparation that took place and the schools
during Spanish Era were closed
6. American Regime
- American soldiers served as the first teachers, in 1901 the Philippine
Commission enacted into law Act 74 which created the Department of
Public Instruction that laid the foundation of the public school system
and offered free primary education for Filipinos

8. - There was a shortage of teachers so the Philippine Commission
authorized the Secretary of Public Instruction to bring the Philippines
600 teachers form USA who were called the Thomasites
- Due to the urgent need for teachers, the Americans gave the bright
young Filipino students the opportunity to take up higher education
in the American colleges and universities financed by the Philippine
government who were called pensionados
- Act 74 of 1901 also provided for the establishment of Philippine Normal
School in Manila which was formally opened in September 1901 as an
institution for the training teachers, for more than 2 decades PNS offered a
two year program to graduates of secondary schools in 1928 , the
Philippine Normal School was renamed as the Philippine Normal College
in 1949taht offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary
Education and the education courses followed after

9. 1. Teaching as a Vocation
 Etymology of Vocation
It comes from the Latin word “ vocare” which means “ to call”
 Vocation is a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or
occupation
2. Teaching as a Mission
- The word mission comes from Latin word “misio” which means “to
send” , is defined as “task assigned” , you are sent accomplish an
assigned task.
C. Teaching as a Vocation and Mission