Student Name: Reymart P.

de Vera
Professor: Dr. Aleta C. Fabregas
Assignment No. 1
Comments about the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers.
Code of ethics help teachers create a safe, productive, and positive learning environment in their
teaching career. Teachers are expected to maintain challenging expectations that will improve
the potential of all learners through meaningful and inclusive participation in the classroom,
school and community. As a teacher we need to follow the set code of ethics to guide as what we
need to do in out working environment, as a teacher we need to set a good example not in our
school but in out community. Sometimes teachers consider as a leader in the community and yet
they compromise the private life of a teacher but we need to act as professional to handle those
situations.

Code of Professional Ethics for Public School Teachers

Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (e), Article 11, of R.A,. No. 7836 otherwise
known as the Philippines 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 possesses dignity and reputation with high
moral values as well as technical and professional competence in the practice of their noble
profession, they strictly adhere to, and practice this set of ethical and moral principles, standards,
and values.
ARTICLE I
SCOPE AND LIMITATION
Section 1. The Philippines Constitutions provides that all educational institution shall offer
quality education for all competent teachers committed of its full realization The provision of
this Code shall apply, therefore, to all teachers in schools in the Philippines.
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 par time basis.
Article II
THE TEACHER AND THE STATE
Section. 1. The school is the nursery of future citizens of the state. School officials and teachers
are trustees of the cultural and educational heritage of the nation. They are therefore under
obligation to elevate national morality to promote justifiable racial pride, to cultivate love of
country, to instill respect for constituted authorities, to in cultivate obedience to the laws of the
state, the promote international understanding and goodwill and to lead in the practice of the
democratic way of life
Section. 2. Every school official and teacher should sincerely belief in and earnestly endeavor to
carry out the detect policies of the state
Section. 3. The interests of the state demand that every school official or teachers physically,
mentally, and morally fit for the service he has to render. Devotion to study, honesty,
punctuality, and efficiency to him.
Section. 4. No school official or teacher in his capacity as such should directly or indirectly
solicit, require, collect, or receive any money or service or anything of value from any person or
entity for any political, religious, or other partisan interests
Section. 5. School officials and teachers may vote and exercise other constitutional rights.
However, no school officials or teachers should use his profession or to official authority or
influence to coerce the political action of any other person or to take part in any election except
to vote.
Section. 6. School officials and teachers may go to the church of their own choice or worship as
they please, but should not use their position and influence as such to proselytize.
Section. 7. A school officials or teachers has to privilege of expanding the produce of his
researches and investigation.
Article III
THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY
Section.1. School officials and teachers should actively participate in community movements for
moral, social, and educational economic and civic betterment
Section. 2. If the school official or teachers is to merit reasonable social recognition if is his duty
to be socially acceptable by keeping himself morally upright as by refraining from gambling,
drunkenness, and other immoral practices
Section. 3. The teacher can immeasurably (limitless) enhance (advance, raise) his social
usefulness by living for and with the community. He should therefore study and understand the
local customs and traditions so that he may have a sympathetic attitude toward them. He should
refrain (forbear) from disparaging the community in which is he lives. As a community leader
every school officials or teacher should by all means, be the first to set the example in good
behavior
Section. 4. Every school official or teacher should keep the people in the community informed as
to the work and accomplishments of the school as well as its needs and its problem
Section. 5. As an intelligent leader in the community especially in the Barrios, the school
officials or teachers should welcome every opportunity to serve as a councilor on matters
effecting the welfare of the people
Section. 6. All school officials and teachers should endeavor to maintain harmonious and
pleasant personal and official relations with other professionals and government officials
Section.7. In relations with other government officials, should official should exercise fact and
prudence (good judgment) in order to achieve the utmost (greatest) result in the co-cooperative
projects in their communities
Article IV
THE TEACHER AND THE PROFESSION
Section. 1. All officials and teachers should feel that teaching is among noblest professions. They
should manifest genuine pride in their calling
Section. 2. Every school officials or teachers should maintain the highest possible standards of
profession by acquiring the prescribed qualification for his position. He should encourage the
admission into the profession of those who possess the best qualification
Section. 3. All school officials and teachers should strive (make effort) to broaden the
professional interest. They should pleasure such studies as will improve their efficiency (ability)
and enhance (pataasin) the prestige (kabantugan) of the profession.
Section. 4. All school officials or teachers should avoid any conduct which may cause discredit
to the teaching profession. Nobility of character should be guiding spirit in the behavior.
Article V
THE TEACHER AND HIS ASSOCIATES
Section. 1. All school officials and teachers should at all times be embused with the spirit of
professional loyalty, mutual confidence and faith in another, self-sacrifice for the common good
and cheerful cooperation. When the best interest of the children, the school or the profession is at
stake (taya, ganti). It is the duty of school officials’ teachers to support one another and school
officials and teachers to support one another.
Section. 2. Every school officials and teachers should make acknowledgement (pagpapakilala,
pasasalamat) of assistance received from his associates. He should not appropriate the work of
others for himself
Section. 3. A school official or teacher before leaving a position should organize and leave for
his successor such records and other data as are necessary to carry on the work.
Section. 4. A school official or teachers should hold inviolate all confidential information
concerning his associates and the school: he should not divulge to interested persons the contents
of documents which have not yet been officially released nor remove record from the files
without permission from the custodian thereof.
Section. 5. Professional criticism should be made only for the welfare of the children or the
school and only in a formal accusation before those who have the authority to try the case on its
merits. Anonymous or fabricated criticism of an associate is unwarranted. Justified criticism in
the interest of the service, however, should not be withheld (ipagwalang bahala), but should be
presented with the supporting evidence. No criticism of associate should be made in the presence
of pupils, fellow teachers, or school patrons
Section. 6. Marking and promotion of the pupils are generally determined by the teacher within
standard set by the administration. However, this does not exclude the exercise of general
supervisory and administrative powers of a superior authority the one such matters especially
where there has been manifest abuse of judgment on the part of the teacher
Section. 7. No school officials or teachers should apply for the position that is not vacant or
definitely to be vacant, nor criticize the qualification of a competitor.
Section. 8. Every school officials or teachers should understand that his official time and that of
his co-workers should be devoted (loving, tender, friendly) fully and conscientiously to the
accomplishment or improvement of his official work
Section. 9. Every school officials or teachers should spend no part of his official time and that of
his co-workers in cheap idle gossip relative to other members of the profession
Article VI
THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND THE TEACHERS
Section. 1. Every school officials and teachers should support loyalty to the legitimate policies of
the school and the administration. They should make honest effort to understand the policies and
carry them out
Section. 2. A teacher of school officials said make no false accusation or charges against
superiors, especially under a superior, he should have a moral courage to present them before
competent authority and be willing to prove them
Section. 3 Teachers and school officials should transact all official business through channels
except when special condition warrant a different procedure as when reforms are advocated
which are opposed by the immediate superior in which case teachers should feel free to write
directly to a higher educational authority
Section. 4. Teachers and school officials have a right to protest against injustice and
discrimination, but the important nature of their service renders (pahayag) any recourse (help) to
a strike or walkout indefensible
Section. 5. Teachers and school officials should realize that appointments, promotions, and
transfers are made only on the basis of merit and in the interest
Section. 6. A teacher or school official accepting position in a school assumes a contractual
obligation. He is duty bound (limit) to live up to this contract and should therefore have full
knowledge of the terms and condition of his employment
Section. 7. Effective school supervision and administration demand responsible leadership and
direction by all school officials who should at at all times. Show professional courtesy,
helpfulness, and sympathy towards their teachers
Section. 8. In the interest of the service, a school official before formulating major policies or
introducing important changes in the system, should give his teachers opportunities for broad
minded discussion and constructive criticism in the spirit of earnest injury and for the good of
pupils
Section. 9. No school officials should stand in the way of just promotion of deserving teachers.
Moreover, school officials should encourage and carefully nurture professional growth of worthy
and promising teachers by recommending them for promotion

Article VII
THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS
Section. 1. The teacher or school officials should recognize that the interest and welfare of the
pupils are his first and foremost concerns
Section. 2. The teacher school official should deal justly and impartially with every pupil.
Exhibitions of prejudice or discrimination because of differences in the pupil’s intellectual
ability, social standing, or favors received from them or their parents should have no place in the
relations between a school official or teacher and his pupils.
Section. 3. No teacher or school official should accept directly or indirectly for tutorial services
from any of his pupil’s remuneration other than compensation authorized for his services
Section. 4. No teacher or school official should allow himself to be influenced by any
consideration of the student work. It is improper for a teacher or school officials to ask or accept
directly or indirectly personal services, gifts or other favors from any of his students or their
parents that would tend to influence his professional relation with them.
Section.5. A school officials or teachers should never take advantage of his position to court a
pupil
Section. 6. No teacher or school officials should inflict corporal punishment on offending pupils:
nor should he make deduction in their scholastic ratings for acts that are clearly not
manifestations of poor scholarship
Article VIII
THE TEACHER AND THE PARENTS
Section. 1. The school exists to render service to public. Parents should be welcomed at school
and treated with every consideration. School officials and teachers should establish and maintain
cordial relations with the parents of their pupils Section. 2. School official or teachers conduct
should be such as to merit the confidence and respect of the parents
Section. 3. In communicating with parents, especially on matters concerning their children’s
faults and shortcomings, a school officials or teachers should exercise the utmost (pinakamataas)
candor (mabuti) and tact. It is his duty to point out the children deficiencies hit her to unknown
or overlooked by parents and seek their cooperation for the proper guidance and improvement of
the children
Section. 4. The school officials or teachers should hear parents’ complaints with sympathy and
understanding. He should, however, discourage parents impair criticism of his associates, the
administration and the school system in general.

Article IX
THE TEACHER AND THE PRIVATE BUSINESS
Section. 1. All school officials and teachers should have maintained a good reputation with
respect to financial matters. They should pay their just debts promptly or make satisfactory
arrangements for payment with their creditors
Section. 2. No teacher should contract loans from pupils, or their parents, nor should any school
officials, contract loans from teachers under his supervision
Section. 3. No school official or teachers should directly or indirectly act as agents for hold
check in, or be financially interested in any commercial venture, the business of which is to
furnish textbooks, supplementary readers, stationery, magazines, periodicals, athletic goods, and
other materials in the purchase and disposal of which for school purposes he can exercise in any
manner his official influence.
Section. 4. In seeking permission to engage in outside teaching, school officials and teachers
should exercise a little spirit of renunciation to avoid any criticism that those holding positions in
the public service are crowding out less favored persons who have no other means of livelihood
than private employment
Article X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section. 1. Any violation of foregoing shall be considered unprofessional and dishonorable
conduct for a public-school teacher or official. It may besides, subjects him to the provisions of
Rule XIII Section. 6 of Civil Service Law.
Section. 2. This code of ethics shall take effect upon receipt in the field.