CHAPTER 3:LESSON 4: The Code of Ethics For Professional Teacher:His/Her Person Profession,and Business

1. Every teacher shall merit reasonable
social recognition for which purpose
he/she 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.

2. CHAPTER 3:LESSON 4:
The Code of Ethics For Professional
Teacher:His/Her Person Profession,and
Business
• A.The Teacher and The Profession
• Professional Teacher relates with primary stakeholders (the learners), with
secondary stakeholders (the parents), with external stakeholders such as
the state and the community and other internal stakeholders such as the
teaching community and school officials (Higher Authorities) to us now
see how the professional teacher should conduct himself/herself as a
person in the teaching profession and in business.

3. ARTICLE IV:THE TEACHER AND
THE PROFESSION
• Section 1. Every teacher shall actively insure 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.
• 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 competence, virtues, and productivity in order to
be nationally and internationally competitive.

4. ARTICLE IV: THE TEACHER AND THE
PROFESSION
• Section 4. Every teacher shall help, if duly authorized, to seek support
for the school, but shall not make improper misrepresentations
through personal advertisements and other questionable mean.
• Section 5. Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in a manner
that makes it a dignified means for earning a decent living.

5. 1. I wish I could persuade every teacher, to be proud of his occupation-not conceited or pompous, but
proud. People who introduce themselves with the shame remark that they are “just teachers” gives
despair in my heart. Did you ever hear a lawyer say depreciatingly that he was only a patent
attorney? Did you ever hear a physician say “I am just a brain surgeon?” I beg of you to stop
apologizing for being a member of the most important profession in the world. Draw yourself up to
your full height; look at anybody squarely in the eye and say, “I am a Teacher.”- Will
2. “Good, better ,best. Never let it rest until your good in better and your better is best.”-Tim Duncan
3. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from
failure.”-Collin Powell
4. “Success where the preparation and opportunity meet.”-Booby Unser
5. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity goes with the ability to say no to
oneself.”-Abraham Joshua Heschel
6. “There are two kinds of pride both good and bad. Good pride represents our dignity and self-
respect. Bad pride is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance .”-John C.
Maxwell.

6. B. The Teacher as a Person
ARTICLE XI: THE TEACHER AS A
PERSON
Section 1.A teacher shall live with dignity in all places at all times.
Section 2.A teacher place premium upon self-respect and self-discipline as the
principle of personal behaviour in all relationships with other and in all situations.
Section 3.A teacher shall maintain all times a dignified personality which could
serve as model worthy of emulation by learners, peers, and others.
Section 4.A teacher shall always recognize the Almighty God or Being as guide of
his own destiny and of the destinies of men and nations.

7. ●So much is demanded of the teacher as a person .He/She is looked up to as
model and therefore must walk her talk or ends up like a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. This is a big challenge. His/her highest obligation is to live
with dignity in all places at all times, so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 31 days a
month, 365 or 366 days a year.
The Code of Professional Conduct for Public School Teachers cited
in Section 7 of RA 4670 puts it succinctly:
INTEGRITY: Since the teacher’s work is not confined merely to the development of certain
fundamental skills and abilities encompassed by the teaching of the 3Rs but also includes the
development of desirable habits and attitudes that go into the formation of character, his manner
of living should provide a worthy example for his pupils and students to emulate, for his fellow
teachers to be proud of and for the community to feel as being enriched by it.

8. C.ARTICLE X:THE TEACHER AND
BUSINESS
ARTICLE X:THE TEACHER AND BUSINESS
• SECTION 1.A teacher has a right to engage, directly or indirectly, in legitimate
income generation, provided that it does not relate to or adversely affect his work.
• SECTION 2.A teacher shall maintain a good reputation with respect to financial
matters such as in the settlement of his just debts, loans and other financial affairs.
• SECTION 3.No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly, as agent of, or financially
interested in, any commercial ventures which furnish textbooks and other School
commodities in the purchase and disposal of which he can exercise official
influence, expect only when his assignment is inherently related to such purchase
and disposal, provided that such shall be in accordance with existing regulation.

9. Findings of the Study on Teacher’s borrowing as shared by DepEd
Secretary Leonor Briones:
1.The prosperity of public school teachers to borrow is 50% higher compared
to other employees of the government such as the police and nurses.
2.Aside from the possibility of not receiving any pay once they retire, public
school teachers may also suffer sanctions.
- from mere reprimand to revocation of licenses to teach- due to their unpaid
loans. There are more than 500 pending cases versus teachers filed by various
lending institutions in the past 3 years.
3.Teachers owe Php.70 billion from legitimate leading institutions.

10. “Man does not live by bread alone.”-Plato
• Understandably, the professional teacher needs money to satisfy
his/her bodily needs. Article X,Sec.1 of the Code of Ethics allows the
teacher to “engage in legitimate income generation provided that it
does not relate to or adversely affect his work or a teacher.”
• If teachers live by the principles of self-respect and self-discipline as
cited in the Code of Ethics, there will be no problem on teacher
indebtedness and teachers" unfavorable reputation of not paying their
debts. If a teacher lives simply, he/she will not be that indebted. To live
simply, the professional teacher must distinguish between his needs
and wants.

11. “THE WORK OF THE TEACHER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE YOUNG IS A TRUST EVERY TEACHER SHOULD STRIVE
TO BE WORTHY.WHO USES HIS POSITION FOR AN
UNWORTHY PURPOSE BETRAYS THE TRUST.”
Teaching is a very noble Profession that shapes the Character, Caliber and
Future of an individual. If the people remember me as a Good teacher
that will be the Biggest honour for me.”-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”-William Arthur Ward
“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society
because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth..”-Helen Caldicott