The document provides an outline for a course on the teaching profession in the Philippines. It discusses the historical development of teaching as a profession in the country from the pre-Hispanic period through modern times. Key events include the establishment of normal schools under the Spanish and Americans to train teachers, and legal documents like PD 1006 of 1976 and RA 7836 of 1994 that further professionalized teaching.

1. The Teaching
Profession
Main Reference: The Teaching Profession
by: Bilbao, etal., Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

2. Course Outline
• The Teaching Profession
• The Demands of Society from the Teacher as a
Professional and as a Person
• The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
• The Rights and Privileges of Teachers in the Philippines
• On Becoming a Global Teacher
• Ensuring Teacher quality through Competency
Framework and Standards
• Continuing Professional Development: The Lifeblood of
the Teaching Profession
• Philosophies of Education
• Teaching, the Noblest of all Profession

3. • Explain the meaning of teaching as a profession.
• Trace the historical development of teaching as a
profession in the Philippines.

4. The Historical
Development of Teaching
as a Profession in the
Philippines

6. Let’s find out how much you know about the history of
teaching in the country. Write TRUE if the statement is correct
and FALSE if it is wrong.
___ 1. As early as the Spanish period, teaching was
considered a profession.
___ 2. It was the Americans who elevated teaching in
the Philippines as a profession.
___ 3. Teaching was elevated to a profession only in 1994
with the passage of RA 7836.
___ 4. There is no other legal document that
professionalized teaching other than The Teachers’
Professionalization Act of 1994.

8. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
– the first legal document that professionalized teaching. This
was “to ensure that in the immediacy and urgency of
teachers recruitment, qualitative requirements are not
overlooked…” Furthermore… “in recognition of the vital role
of teachers in nation-building and as an incentive to raise the
morale of teachers, it is imperative that they be considered
as professionals and teaching be recognized as a profession.”
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act)
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
• Spanish Period
• American Regime
• Act 74 of 1901

9. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act)
– was passed to … “promote quality education by proper
supervision and regulation of the licensure examination
and professionalization of the practice of the teaching
profession.”
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
• Spanish Period
• American Regime
• Act 74 of 1901

10. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act)
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
– there was no established formal schooling on the
country so there was no formal preparation for teacher,
too.
• Spanish Period
• American Regime
• Act 74 of 1901

11. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act)
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
• Spanish Period (Education Decree of 1863)
– free public school system was established, one school for boys and
another school for girls in every municipality. Spanish missionaries
served as teachers.
– the same decree provided for a normal school run by the Jesuits
to educate male teachers in Manila. Normal schools for women
were not established until 1875.
– August 4, 1765 –> King Charles of Spain issued a Royal Decree
requiring each village to have a “maestro.”
– November 28, 1772 –> another Royal Decree specified the
qualifications of teachers.
– 1863 –> there was a specific attempt to systematize and update
the education of Filipino teachers.
• American Regime
• Act 74 of 1901

12. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act)
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
• Spanish Period (Education Decree of 1863)
• American Regime
– American soldiers served as the first teachers.
– 1901 –> Philippine Commission enacted into law Act 74
which created the Department of Public Instruction.
– 600 teachers from USA were brought to the Philippines due
to shortage of teachers (Thomasites).
– bright young Filipino students were given opportunity to take
up higher education in American colleges and universities
financed by the Philippine government (pensionados).
• Act 74 of 1901

13. • PD 1006 of 1976 (Decree Professionalizing Teachers)
• RA 7836 of 1994 (Philippine Teachers
Professionalization Act)
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• Pre-Hispanic Period
• Spanish Period (Education Decree of 1863)
• American Regime
• Act 74 of 1901
– provided for the establishment of Philippine Normal School
which opened in September 1901 as an institution for the
training of teachers.
– 1928 –> it became a junior college offering a 2-year program
to graduates of secondary schools.
– 1949 –> PNS was renamed Philippine Normal College,
offered the 4-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary
Education. Other 4-year teacher education courses followed.

15. Present the historical development of teacher
preparation and professionalization in the Philippines
from pre-Hispanic Philippines to 1994 by way of a
graphic organizer.

17. 1. In the Philippines there was no teacher
preparation since the Spanish regime. Is the
statement CORRECT?
a. No c. There was but informal
b. Yes d. There was and for men only
2. Which is the first legal document that
professionalized teaching in the Philippines?
a. RA 7836 c. RA 9192
b. PD 1006 d. RA 8981
3. Did teacher preparation in the Philippines begin
with 4 years?
a. Yes c. No
b. Yes, 4 years but informal d. No, it began with 1 year

18. 4. Interview LET passers now teaching who did not go through
the 4-year teacher education course. They are graduates of
other 4-year courses but not teacher education.
a. What difficulties are they experiencing in teaching?
b. Do they agree that a 4-year teacher education course is a better
preparation for the teaching profession?
c. In 1991, the Congressional Commission to Review and Assess
Philippine Education (EDCOM) came out with the finding that the
“quality of Philippine education is declining” and that the
teachers are “at the heart of the problem.” The EDCOM
discussed further that:
- teachers were poorly trained
- there is low quality of students enrolled in teacher training
- teaching is perceived as a poorly esteemed profession so it does not attract
the best as mandated in he Philippine constitution that “teaching will
attract and retain” its rightful share of the best available talents through
adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfilment
(Art. XIV, Sec 5)
* What actions did the Philippine government do after the EDCOM report?