Chapter 7: Continuing Professional

Development: The Lifeblood of the

Teaching Profession
Prepared by: Mae Clarence A. Ticoy BEEd 3C
Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the BEEd students should be
able to:
• explain why CPD is necessary for professional teacher
• demonstrate understanding on pertinent provisions of
the CPD Act of 2016 and other related legal documents
• express ideas showing the importance of CPD
 INTRODUCTION

The professional license for teaching obtained after

passing the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)
simply tells that the professional teacher possesses
the minimum competencies expected of professional
teachers, Hence, every professional teacher is
expected to continue developing after obtaining
his/her professional license. This is one big demand
for a professional teacher.
The Code of Professional Conduct for Public School
Teachers cited in Section 7 of RA 4670 states:
"Responsibility is something expected of a professional
teacher. The work of the teacher in the development
and guidance of the young is a tremendous
responsibility for which he accountable to God, to his
country, and to posterity. It was of which every
teachers should strive to be worthy.
ACTIVITY: Let's Discuss
Explain the meaning of each of the
following quotations:
1."Growth is an evidence of life."
2.“Man/woman is an "unfinished project"
3."No person has "arrived."
The Philosophical Basis of CPD

“Growth is an evidence of life.” This implies

that anything that is alive grows or anything
that grows is alive.
“Man/woman is an unfinished project.”
For a professional teacher, he/she is
always in the process of becoming
better and better as a person and as a
professional teacher.
No person, no professional can claim
he/she has already “arrived” at a state of
perfection. Neither “Perfecta” nor
“Perfecto” who is perfect by name is not
perfect. This means that no professional
has arrived at a perfect state.
The Historical and Legal Bases
of Continuing Professional
Development in the
Philippines
Even before the enactment of this CPD Act of
2016, CPD was already alluded to in the 1987
Philippine Constitution. Not less than the
fundamental law of the land. Section 5, Paragraph
4, states: “The State shall enhance the right of
teachers to professional advancement”. Other laws
also cited continuing professional development, as
follows:
1. Batas Pambansa 232, the Education Act of
1982, Chapter 3. Duties and Obligations,
Section 16, (4) states as one of teacher’s
obligations to assume the responsibility to
maintain. And sustain his professional growth
and advancement…”
2. RA 9155, An Act Instituting a Framework of
Governance for Basic Education, Establishing Authority
and Accountability, renaming the Department of
Education, Culture and Sports as the Department of
Education, and for other purposes, was enacted on
August 11, 2001. In the enumeration of duties and
functions of the Secretary of Education, Section 7 A.,
to wit.
3. R.A. 7836, the Teachers’ Professionalization Act, also provided
for mandatory Continuing Professional Education (CPE), now
referred to as Continuing Professional Development (CPD), to wit.
To collect continuing professional growth and development and to
provide additional units for merit promotion, in addition to their
performance rating, teachers may take an oral and written
examination of least once in five (5) years as basis for merit
promotion In taking this examination, no fee shall be required
(Sec 19. Periodic Merit Examination of Teachers) Unfortunately,
due to lack of funding, the merit examination has not been
implemented up to writing time. The same RA. 7836 states:
Unjustified or willful failure to attend seminars,
workshops, conferences and the like or the
continuing education program prescribed by the
Board and the Commission (Sec. 23, h.
Revocation of the Certificate of Registration,
Suspension from the Practice of the Teaching
Profession, and Cancellation of Temporary or
Special Permit).
4. The Board for Professional Teachers (BPT) also
passed Resolution No. 435, s. 177 to adopt the
Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers pursuant
to the provisions of paragraph € Article 11 of RA
7836, otherwise known as The Philippine Teachers’
Professionalization Act of 1994. This Code of Ethics
states:
Every teacher shall participate in the Continuing
Professional Education (CPE) program of the
Professional a Regulation Commission, and shall
pursue such other studies as will improve his
efficiency enhance the prestige of his profession,
and strengthen hit competence, virtues, and
productivity in order to be nationally and
internationally competitive. (Section 3, Article IV)
5. Executive Order # 266, Institutionalization of the Continuing
Professional Education (CPE) Programs of the Various Professional
Regulatory Boards (PRB) Under the Supervision of the Professional
Regulation Commission (PRC). This was signed and issued by the
Office of then President Fidel V Ramos on July 25, 1995, to wit:
The completion by professional licensees of the Continuing
Professional Education (CPE) program adopted by all Boards is
hereby as a mandatory requirement for the renewal of professional
licenses (Soc. 1). This Executive Order was premised on the
following:
WHEREAS, the various professions play a crucial
role in nation-building
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registered professionals the completion of the
Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
programs adopted by the concerned Board as a
pre-requisite for the renewal of their licenses
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6. R.A. 10912, Continuing Professional
Development Act of 2016- With the
enactment of this law, CPD for all the forty-
three (43) professions regulated by PRC
including the teaching profession has
become mandatory.
 Ways By Which
Professional Teachers
Can Earn Credit Units
1. Professional track. This includes trainings provided by
CPD providers accredited by PRC. You can earn more credit
units as a participate to a training approved by the CPD
Council. You earn more credit units if you serve as a resource
speaker. Trainer or demonstration teacher. You also earn
credit units as panelist reactor, facilitator/moderator. You
earn much more if you are assigned by the CPD Council to
monitor the conduct of an approved CPD program.
2. Academic track-This refers to the completion of a Master’s
degree, completion of candidacy to the doctorate program,
completion of the doctorate program, completion of a post.
Doctoral diploma, and being a recipient of a professorial chair
grant, and/or fellowship grant. Take note that ONLY COMPLETION
of the Master’s degree is given full credit units of 45. Earning MA
units is not given any credit unit but completion of candidacy for
the Doctorate degree already entitles one to 45 credit units. The
master’s and doctorate degrees must have been earned five (5)
years before renewal of professional license.
3. Self-directed track – This includes trainings offered
by non- accredited CPD providers. It refers to
“learning activities such as online training,
local/international seminars /non-degree courses,
institution/company-sponsored training programs and
the like which did not undergo CPD accreditation but
may be applied for and awarded CPD units by the
respective CPD: Councils
4. Productive Scholarship This means that the professional
teacher has developed program/training module, curriculum
guide or any other resource material. Or the professional
teacher has written an article in a professional magazine or a
technical research paper and even better if that technical
paper is published in a refereed/peer-reviewed professional
journal. Best if the professional teacher writes a book or a
monograph or comes up with an invention or creative work.
The latter entitles him/her to 45 credit units.
Application

1. As a future educator is
obtaining CPD helpful?
EVALUATION
The statements that follow describe why
CPD is necessary for professional
teachers. Choose the BEST answer that
corresponds to the said scenario in each
item. Write only the letter of the correct
answer.
 1.Which of the following statement is correct?
I. A professional teacher may earn CPD units through
self-directed learning.
II. One mode of CPD is through productive scholarship.
III. Professional teachers who earned doctoral degrees
have a life time privilege to renew their license to teach.
IV. Professional teachers doesn’t need to earn CPD
a. I, II & III b. IV&I c. I only d. II only
2. Why is CPD necessary to all teachers?
I. It abide by the CPD Act of 2016
II. To be at part with other professionals.
III. To continuously improve teacher’s competence
IV. To feel at ease

a. I only b. II only c. I&III d. IV only

 3. Which among the teaching position is
credited for CPD units?
a. Teacher I
b. Master Teacher
c. Teacher II
d. Principal
4. Which is a proof that a professional teacher
demonstrates a genuine desire for CPD?
A. Goes through CPD even if it is not required by
law
b. Do CPD for promotion
c. Go for CPD as mandated
d. Do CPD because everybody does it
5. It is an Act Instituting a Framework of Governance for
Basic Education, Establishing Authority and Accountability,
renaming the Department of Education, Culture and Sports as
the Department of Education, and for other purposes, was
enacted on August 11, 2001.

a. RA 9155
b. RA 9156
c. RA 9157
d. RA 9158
6. It is the Education Act of 1982, Chapter 3. Duties
and Obligations, Section 16, (4) states as one of
teacher’s obligations to assume the responsibility to
maintain.

a. RA 9158
b. Batas Pambansa 232
c. Republic Act 2017
d. Batas Pambansa 222
 7. This means that the professional teacher has
developed program/training module, curriculum guide
or any other resource material.
a. Secure Scholarship
b. Productive Scholarship
c. Laddered Scholarship
d. Assessment Scholarship
 8. This refers to the completion of a Master’s degree,
completion of candidacy to the doctorate program,
completion of the doctorate program, completion of a post.
Doctoral diploma, and being a recipient of a professorial
chair grant, and/or fellowship grant.
a. Self-directed track
b. Directed track
c. Academic track
d. Professional track
 9. This includes trainings offered by non- accredited CPD
providers. It refers to “learning activities such as online
training, local/international seminars /nondegree courses,
institution/company-sponsored training programs.
a. Self-directed track
b. Directed track
c. Academic track
d. Professional track
 10. This includes trainings provided by CPD providers
accredited by PRC. You can earn more credit units as
a participant to a training approved by the CPD
Council.
a. Self-directed track
b. Directed track
c. Academic track
d. Professional track
ASSIGNMENT
1. Interview teachers who
have been teaching for 3
years, 5 years and more
than 5 years. Ask each of
them how they go through
Continuing Professional
Development. Write your
findings in the matrix
given below
2. Teaching is a “learning
profession.” What does this
mean?
Thank you!