A Filipino teacher has many responsibilities including teaching subjects, preparing lesson plans and materials, implementing rules, evaluating students, supervising projects and activities, keeping records, attending trainings, maintaining membership in professional organizations, and collaborating with other teachers and stakeholders. An effective teacher has basic skills like planning and communicating, adaptive skills like creativity and dependability, and professional skills in their content area. They also have personal characteristics like achievement and flexibility, a motivation to teach, commitment, and experience teaching various subjects and grades. Professional values that effective teachers display include a lifelong learning mindset, ethical teaching practices focused on student needs, and compassion for students.