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EABSTRACTION: Let's Add to What You Know

Teaching as a
profession
In the words
"professional manner," "gawang propesyonal,
"professional fee for expert services rendered" the word
"professional implies one who possesses skill and competence
expertise. "Highly professional" "unprofessional... to act that way
imply a code of ethics by which a professional person abide. In

short,a
professional is one who conforms to the technical ethical
standards of a profession. So two elements of a profession are
or

The elements of a
competence and a Code of Ethics. profession are: 1)
The other elements of a profession are: initial professional
1. Initial Professional Education - Prosessionals generally begin education, 2)
accredited program,
their professional lives by completing a university program
in their chosen fields teacher education,
3)licensing,
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engineering.
and arduous of
4) continuing
nursing, accountancy. This means long years professional
preparation. Take note this is just initial, which means only development, 5)
to learn
the beginning because a professional is expected membership in a

endlessly. professional society

2. Accreditation - University programs are approved by a and a 6) Code of
Ethics
regulatory body Higher Education
like the Commission on

from
(CHED) in the Philippines to ensure that graduates
these recognized programs start their professional
lives with

competence.
and is
3. Licensing Licensing is mandatory, not voluntary
-

In the Philippines,
administered by a government authority.
is the Professional Regulation
this government authority
Commission (PRC).
4. Professional Development
that maintains
This is ongoing professional eduçation
an
knowledge and skills after
or improves professionals
In the Philippines this is
they begin professional practice. mandated by RA
Professional Development
Continuing
known as the CPD Act of 2016.
10912, otherwise
5. Professional Societies

Professionals part of a community of

see themselves as
their professional standards
like-minded individuals who put
self-interest or their employer's self-
above the individual
societies put dedication to the
interest. These professional
commitment to moral and ethical values.
interest and
public
The Teaching Protession

Professional societies define certification criteria, manage

accreditation standards and
certification programs, establish
action for violations
define a code of ethics and disciplinary
of that code.
6. Code of Ethies
code of ethics to ensure that
has
Each profession a

1ts practitioners behave responsibly.

The code states what
can be ejected from
professionals should do. Professionals
their professional societies or lose their licenses to practice
Source:
for violating the code of ethics. (McConnell, Steve,
http://www.alexsbrown.com/prof9.html, Retrieved 6-3-18)

of Ethics
The teaching profession is governed by the Code
for
for Professional Teachers. Violation of the Code of Ethics
revocation of
professional teachers is one of the grounds for the
the professional teacher's Certificate of Registration and suspension
from the practice of the teaching profession (Sec. 23., RA. 7836).

APPLICATION: Let'sApplyWhat You Learned

1. By the use of a graphic organizer, present the elements of a
profession.
2. Why does a profession like teaching require long years of
initial professional education and continuing professional
development after that long, arduous initial professional
education?
3. By way of an acrostic, explain the elements of a profession.

R-
O-
F.

E
S-
S-

O-
N-
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5

4. Here is a line from Bernard Shaw's play: Man and

Superman: "Those who can, do; those who can't. teach."
People who are able to do something well can do that
thing for a living. while people who are not able to do
anything that well make a living by teaching. Having learned
the elements of a profession, do you agree with Bernard
Shaw? Explain your answer.

Summary
Teaching is a profession. It requires:

1) long years of initial professional education

2) the attainment of a college/university degree recognized
by a
regulatory body, CHED
3) a licensure examination called the Licensure Examination
for Teachers (LET)
4) Continuing Professional Development and
Teachers
5) adherence to the Code of Ethics for Professional

(CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

1. Based on profession given in this Lesson,
the elements of a
can

the taxi driver be considered a professional?- Analysis

A. No, because driving is not a college/university degree.
a term professional driver.
B. Yes, beccause there is such
and ethical competence of the
C. It depends on the technical
taxi driver.
is competent and honest.
D. Yes, if the taxi driver

2. Which are clements of a profession like teaching?

-

Analysis
education
I. Long years of professional
examination to obtain a
II. Passing the competency-based
diploma from TESDA
IlI. Continuing Profcssional Development
IV. Adherence to a Code of Ethics for the professional group
A. I, II and IIl C. I, Ill and IV

B. II, 1I and IV D. 1, II and IV

 The Teaching Profession
8
as a Profession in
B. The Historical Development of Teaching
the Philippines

ACTIVITY: Lot's Do These

Let's find out how much you know about the history of
statement is correct and
teaching in the country. Write TRUE if the
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.

was only in 1976

with PD 1006 known
ANALYSIS: Let's Analyze
as the Decree Share your answers with a learning partner. Then the two of
Professionalizing you
Teaching that
pair with another pair and discuss your answers. Arrive at a
consensus,
if you can.
teachers in the
Philippines became
professionalized.
The need to
professionalize
ABSTRACTION: Let's Add to What You Know
teaching was felt All the True-False items above
to insure that in are false. The first legal
document that professionalized
the immediacy
1006 issued by then President
teaching was Presidential Decree
and urgencyof Ferdinand E. Marcos. It
teacher recruitment, 1976 with PD 1006 known as the was only in
Decree Professionalizing Teaching
qualitative that teachers in the
requrements are not
Philippines became
professionalized. The need
overlooked .."and
to
professionalize teaching was felt "to insure that in the
and urgency of teacher immediacy
recruitment, qualitative requirements
although teaching are not
overlooked ..." and "although
requires a number teaching
collegiate study, it is the only courserequires
a number of
of years of collegiate of years
that is not yet
study, it is the only a
profession" (PD 1006). Furthermore... "in considered
course that is not vital role of teachers in recognition of the
yet considered a the morale of
nation-building and as an incentive to raise
teachers, it is
imperative that
profession"(PD 1006) they be considered
 Chapter 1: Lesson- leaching os a Protession
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as
professionals and teaching be recognized
(P.D.1006)
as a
profession."
Then in 1994, R.
A7836, otherwise Philippine
own as the
Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994, was
passed to "promote ... ...in 1994, R. A 7836,
quality education by proper supervision and regulation of the otherwise known as
licensure examination and
teaching profession." (Section 2)
professionalization
of the of the practice the Philippine Teachers
Professionalization
During the pre-Hispanic period, there was no established formal Act of 1994, was

schooling in the country. So there was no formal preparation for passedto.. promote
quality education by
teachers, too. The mothers and fathers and tribal leaders served as
|proper supervision
teachers at home and in the community. and regulation of the
During the Spanish period and by virtue of Educational Decree licensure examination
of 1863 free public school system was established. There was one andprofessionalization
school for boys and another school for girls in every municipality. of the practice of the
The Spanish missionaries served as teachers. The same Decree teaching profession."
provided for a normal school run by the Jesuits to educate male (Section 2)
teachers in Manila. Normal schools for women were not established
until 1875. So it was the Spaniards who started training teachers in
normal schools.
Paz Ramos, once Dean of the College of Education of the

University Philippines, Diliman, claims:

of the
The foundations of teacher education in the
Philippines were laid by the Spanish government
during themid-eighteenth century. 1 is said to have
begun on August 4, 1765, when King Charles of Spain During the Spanish
each village to have penoo, Educational
issued a Royal requiring
Decree
28, 1772, another Royal Decree of 1863
On November
"

a "maestro.
teachers. However provided for a normal
Decree specified the qualijfications of school run by the
was a specific attempt
it was not until 1863 that there Jesuits to educate
to systematize and update the education of Filipino male teachers in
teachers. Manila. Normal
Schools for women
schools during the Spanish era
At the end of Spanish rule, were not established
So there was no
were closed for a
time by Aguinaldo's government. until 1875. So it

teacher preparation that

took place. was the Spaniards
American soldiers served as the who started training
During the American regime, teachers in normal
the Philippine Commission enacted into law
first teachers. In 1901, laid the unOOYs
the Department of Public Instruction,
Act 74 which created
school system and offered free primary
foundations of the public
education for Filipinos
Commission
There was a shortage of teachers. The Philippine
 The Teaching Profession
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Instruction to bring to the Philippines

authorized the Secretary of Public
the Thomasites. Due to urgent
600 teachers from USA. They were
Filipino students
need for teachers, the Americans gave bright young
and
opportunity take up
to higher education in American colleges
were the
universities financed by the Phil. Government. They
pensionados.

Act 74 of 1901 also provided for

the establishment of
The Philippine Normal
Philippine Normal School (PNS) in Manila.
institution for
formally opened in September 1901, as
an
School
PNS offered a
the training of teachers. For more than two decades,
In 1928, it became a
two-year general secondary education program.
junior college offering a two-year program to graduates of secondary
schools. In 1949, the Philippine Normal School, renamed Philippine
Normal College, offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in
Elementary Education. Other four year teacher education courses
followed after. This means that the present four-year preparation for
the professional teacher began as a two-year program only. Teacher
preparation became four years only in 1949 and thereafter.

APPLICATION: Let's Apply What You Learned

Present the historical development of teacher preparation and
professionalization in the Philippines from pre-Hispanic Philippines
to 1996 by way of agraphic organizer.