THE CODE OF

ETHICS FOR
PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS
PRESENTED BY: PRINCESS GIA V. PEREZ
BSE-1E
 Art. I
Scope and
CODE OF ETHICS FORArt. II
Art. XIII
Limitations
The Teacher
PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS
Effectivity and The
State

Art. III
Art. XII
The Teacher
Disciplinary
and The
Action
Community

Art. IV
Art. XI
The Teacher
The Teacher
and The
as a Person
Profession
ARTICLES

Art . V
Art. X The Teacher
The Teacher and The
and Business Teaching
Community

Art. VI
Art. IX The Teacher
The Teacher and Higher
and Parents Authorities in
Art. VII The Phil.
Art. VIII School
Officials,
The Teacher
Teachers and
and Learners
Other
 PROFESSION
A type of job that requires
special training and gives
status and prestige to the
individual.
 PROFESSIONAL

The one who has

competent skills, observes
high standards of the job,
and abides by the code of
ethics.
WHO IS THE PROFESSIONAL
TEACHER?
She/He is the “licensed professional who
possesses dignity and reputation, with
high moral values as well as technical
and professional competence. She/He
adheres to, observe, and practice a set of
ethical and moral principles, standard and
values.” (Code of Ethics of Professional
Teachers, 1997)
 RESOLUTION NO. 435
SERIES OF 1997
Pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (e)
Article II, of R.A. No. 7836, otherwise
known as the “Philippines Teachers
Professionalization Act of 1994” and
Paragraph (a) Section 6, P.D No. 223 as
amended, the Board of Professional
Teachers hereby adopts and promulgates the
following “Code of Ethics for Professional
 PREAMBLE
Teachers are duly licensed professionals
who possess 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 observe, and practice
this set of ethical and moral principles
standard and values.
 ARTICLE I
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

Section 1. All Section 2. This code

educational shall apply to all
institutions shall teachers in all schools
offer quality in the Philippines
education for all including persons
competent teachers. performing supervisory
and/or administrative
functions.
 ARTICLE II
THE TEACHER AND THE STATE
Section 1. Each teacher is a trustee of the
cultural and educational heritage of the nation
and is under obligation to transmit to learners
such heritage as well as to elevate national
morality, promote national pride, cultivate love
of country, instill allegiance to the constitution
and for all duly constituted authorities, and
promote obedience to the laws of the state.
Section 2. Every Section 3. Every
teacher or school
official shall teacher shall be
actively help physically, mentally
carryout the and morally fit.
declared policies of
the state, and shall
take and oath to this
effect.
Section 4. Every Section 5. A teacher shall
not engaging in the
teacher sall possess promotion of any political,
and actualize a full religious, or other partisan
interest, and shall not,
commitment and directly or indirectly, or
devotion to duty. solicit, require, collect, or
receive any money or
service or other valuable
material from any person
or entity for such purposes.
Section 6. Every Section 7. A teacher
teacher shall vote shall not use his
and shall exercise position or facial
all other authority and
constitutional influence to coerce
rights and any other person to
responsibility. follow any political
course of action.
Section 8. Every teacher shall enjoy
academic freedom and shall have
privillage of expounding the product of
his researches and investigations.
 ARTICLE III
THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY

Section 1. Every Section 2. Every teacher

teacher shall, render shall provide leadership
the best service by and initiative to a
providing an actively participate in
environment community movements
conductive such for moral, social,
learning and growth. educational, economic
and civic betterment.
Section 3. Every teacher Section 4. . Every teacher
shall behave with honor shall study and
and dignity at all times understand local customs
and refrain for such and traditions in order to
activities as gambling, have sympathetic
smoking, drunkenness, attitude, therefore refrain
and other execesses, from disparaging the
much less illicit community.
relations.
Section 5. Every Section 6. Every teacher
teacher shall help the shall welcome the
school keep the people opportunity to provide
in the community such leadership when
informed about the needed, to extend
school’s work and counseling services, as
appropriate, and to
accomplishments as
actively be involved in
well as its needs and matters affecting the
problems. welfare of the people.
Section 7. Every Section 8. A teacher
teacher shall posses freedom to
maintain
harmonious and attend church and
pleasant personal worships, but not use
and officials, and his positions and
with the people,
individually or influence to
collectively. proselyte others.
 ARTICLE IV
A TEACHER AND THE PROFESSION

Section 1. Every Section 2. Every

teacher shall atively teacher shall uphold
insure that teaching is the highest possible
the noblest profession, standards of quality
and shall manifest education, shall make
genuine enthuiasm the best at all times and
and pride in teaching in the practice of his
as a noble calling. profession.
 WHAT IS QUALITY EDUCATION?

Making sure that basic education is really solid,

because if it is not solid, it affects the quality of
secondary education. If secondary education is
poor, then the person goes to college unprepared
for college work. And if he is allowed to graduate
again with a poor quality college education, he
goes to university professional education even
more unprepared. (Joaquin Bernas)
Section 3. Every teacher
shall continue professional Section 5. Every teacher
growth to improve shall use the teaching
efficiency.
profession in a manner
Section 4. Every teaher that makes it dignified
shall help, if duly means for earning a
authorized, but shall not
descent living.
make improper
misrepresentations through
persoal advertisements and
other questionable means.
 ARTICLE V
THE TEACHERS AND THE TEACHING
COMMUNITY
Section 1. Teacher shall, be influenced with
the spirit of professinal loyalty, mutual
confidence, and faith in one another, self
sacrifice for the common good, and full
cooperation with colleagues at all times.
Section 2. A teacher is Section 3. Before
not entitled to claim leaving his position, a
credit or work not of teacher shall organize
his own, and shall and leave to his
give due credit for the successor such records
work of others which and other data as a
he may use. necessary to carry on
the work.
Section 4. A teacher Section 5. Every teacher
is responsible to seek
shall hold inviolate all correctives for what he
confidential information may appear to be an
concerning associates unprofessional and
and the school. unethical conduct of any
associates. However, this
may be done only if there
is incontrovertible
evidence for such conduct.
Section 6. A teacher may Section 7. A teacher may
submit to the proper
authorities any justifiable apply for a vacant
criticism against an position for which he is
associate, preferably in qualified.
writing, without violating
the right of the individual
concerned.
 ARTICLE VI
THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN
THE PROFESSION
Section 1. Teachers shall Section 2. Teachers shall
not make any false
make an honest effort to accusations or charges
understand and support against superiors, especially
legitimate policies of the under anomity. However, if
school and the there are valid charges, he
should present such under
administration regardless oath to competent authority.
of personal feeling or
private opinion and shall
faithfully carry them out.
Section 3. Teachers Section 4. Teachers has
shall transact all official right to seek redress
business through grievances within
channels except when acceptable democratic
special conditions processes. Shall avoid
warrant a different putting in danger the
interest and the welfare of
procedure.
learners whose right to
learn must be respected.
 BASIC STEPS IN FILING COMPLAINT

Teacher Regional Director

DepEd
Secretary

Subject Coordinators Division

(Academic Matters) Superintendent

Principal Division Supervisor

Section 5. Teachers has a Section 6. A teacher who
right to involve the accepts a position
principle that assumes a contractual
appointments, obligation to live up to his
promotions and transfer contract, assuming full
teachers are made only, knowledge of
on the basis of merit and employment terms and
needed in the interest of conditions.
the service.
 ARTICLE VII
SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

Section 1. At all times show Section 3. School Officials

professional courtesy,
helpfulness and sympathy shall encourage and attend the
towards teachers and other professional growth of all
personnel. teachers, recommend them for
promotion, giving them due
Section 2. Shall consider their recognition for meritotious
cooperative responsibility to
formulate policies or performance, and allowing
introduce important changes them to participate in
in the system at all levels. conferences in training
programs.
 HOW SHALL THE STATE ENHANCE THE
RIGHT OF TEACHERS TO PROFESSIONAL
ADVANCEMENT?
By providing trainings and seminars to teachers; by
providing sabbatical leave to teachers; by giving
scholarship to teachers.
 HOW WILL THE STATE INSURE THAT
TEACHING WILL ATTRACT AND RETAIN
ITS RIGHTFUL SHARE OF THE BEST
AVAILABLE TALENTS?

Through adequate remuneration and other means of

job satisfaction and fulfillment.
 ARTICLE VIII
THE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Section 1. A teacher has a Section 3. Under no

right and duty to determine circumstance shall a teacher be
the academic marks and the prejudiced or discriminate
promotion of learners in the against a learner.
subject they handle.
Section 4. Shall not accept
Section 2. Interest and favors or gifts from learners,
welfare of learners are of first their parents or others in their
and foremost cocern, and belief in exchange for
shall deal justifiable and requested concessions,
impartiably with each of especially if underserved.
them.
Section 5. Shall not accept, Section 7. Where mutual
directly or indirectly, any
remuneration from tutorials
attraction and subsequent
other what is authorized for love develop between
such service. teacher and learner, the
teacher shall exercise
Section 6. Evaluation of the utmost professsional
learner must br based on
workly only in merit and discretion to avoid scandal
quality of academic gossip and preferential
performance. treatment of the learner.
Section 8. Shall not inflict a Section 9. A teacher shall
corporal punidhment on ensure that conditions
offending learners nor make contribute to the maximum
deductions from their development of learners are
scholastic ratings as a adequate, and shall extend
punishment for acts which needed assistance in
are clearly not preventing or solving
manifestation of poor kearner problems and
scholarship. difficulties.
 ARTICLE IX
THE TEACHER AND PARENTS

Section 1. Establish and Section 3. A teacher shall

maintain cordial relations with
parents, and shall conduct hear parent complaints with
himself to merit their sympathy and
confidence and respect. understanding, and shall
Section 2. Shall inform discourage unfair criticism.
parents, through proper
authorities, of the progress and
deficiencies of learner under
him, exercising utmost candor
and tact in pointing out the
learner’s deficiencies.
 ARTICLE X
THE TEACHER AND THE BUSINESS

Section 1. A teacher has the Section 2. Maintain a good

right to engage, directly or reputation withrespect to the
indirectly , in legitimate financial matters such as in
income generation; the settlement of his debts
provided that it does not and loans in arranging
relate to or adversely affect satisfactory his private
his work as a teacher. financial affairs.
Section 3. No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly, as agent
or be financially interested in, any commercial venture which
furnish textbooks and other school commodities in the
ourchase and disposal of which he can exercise official
influence, except only when his assignment is inherently,
related to such purchase and disposal; provided they shall be
in accordance with the existing regulations; provided, further,
that members of duly recognized teachers cooperatives may
participate in the distribution and sale of such commodities.
 ARTICLE XI
THE TEACHER AS A PERSON

Section 1. Highest Section 3. Maintain at all times

oblogation lo live with a dignified personality which
dignity in all places at all could serve as a model worthy
times. of emulations by learners,
peers and all others.
Section 2. Self-respect and
self-discipline at the Section 4. Always recognize
principle of personal the Almighty God as guided of
behavior in all relationships his own destiny and of the
with others and in all destinies of men and nations.
situations.
 ARTICLE XII
DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS

Section 1. Any violation of any provision of this code

shall be sufficient ground for the imposition against the
erring teacher of the diciplinary action consisting of
revocation of his Certification of Registration and
License as a Professional Teacher, suspension from the
practice of teaching profession, or reprimand or
cancellation of his temporary/special permit under causes
specified in Sec. 23, Article III or R.A. No. 7836, and
under Rule 31, Article VIII, of the Rules and Regulations
Implementing R.A. 7836.
 ARTICLE XIII
EFFECTIVELY

Section 1. This Code shall take effect upon

approval by the Professional Regulation
Commission and after sixty (60) days following its
publication in the Official Gazette or any newspaper
of general circulation, whichever is earlier.