CODE OF ETHICS OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS

PREAMBLE
Teachers are duly licensed professionals who passes 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
Section1. The Philippine Constitution provides that all educational institutions shall after quality education for all Filipino Citizens,
a vision that requires professionally competent teachers committed to is full realization. The provision of this code shall apply,
therefore to all teachers in ail schools in the Philippines.
Section 2: This code covers all public and private school teacher in all educational institution at the preschool, primary,
elementary and secondary levels whether academic, vocational, special, technical, or non-formal. The term teacher" shall include
industrial art or vocational teachers and ail other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools at
the aforesaid levels, whether on fulltime or part-time basis.
ARTICLE II
THE TEACHER AND THE STATE
Section1. The schools are the nurseries of the citizen of the state. Each teachers is a trustee of the cultural and educational
heritage of the nation and is under obligation to transmit to learners such as well as to elevate national morality, promote national
pride, cultivate love of country, instill allegiance to the Constitution and respect tor ail duly constituted authorities, and promote
obedience to the laws of the state.
Section2. Every teacher or school official shall actively help carry out the declared policies of the state, and shall take an oath to
this effect.
Section3. In the interest of the State of the Filipino people as much as of his own, every teacher shall be physically, mentally and
morally fit.
Section4. Every teacher shall posses and actualize full commitment and devotion to duty.
Section5. A teacher shall not engage in the promotion of any political, religious or other partisan interest, and shall not, directly,
or indirectly solicit, require, collect or receive any money, service, other valuable material from any person or entity for such
purposes.
Section6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional rights and responsibilities.
Section7. A teacher shall net use his position or official authority of influence to coerce any other person to follow any political
course of action.
Section8. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom and shall have the privilege of sharing the product of his researches and
investigations, provided that, if the results are inimical to the declared policies of the state, they shall be drawn to the proper
authorities for appropriate remedial action.
ARTICLE III
THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY
Section1. A teacher is a facilitator of learning and of the development of the youth; he shall, therefore, render the best services
by providing an environment conducive to such learning and growth.
Section2. Every teacher shall provide leadership arid initiative to actively participate in community movements for moral, social,
educational, economic and civic betterment.
Section3. Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for which purpose he shall behave with honor and dignity at all
times and refrain from such activities such as gambling, smoking, drunkenness and other excesses, much less illicit relations.
Section4. Every teacher shall help the school keep the people in the community and shall, therefore, study and understand local
customs and traditions in order to have a sympathetic attitude, therefore, refrain from disparaging the community.
Section5. Every teacher shall help the school keep the people in the community informed about the school's work and
accomplishment as well as its needs and problems.
Section6. Every teacher is an intellectual leader in the community, especially in the barangay. and shall welcome the opportunity
to provide such leadership when needed, to extend the counseling services, as appropriate, and to actively be involved in
matters affecting the welfare of the people.
Section7. Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant personal and official relations with other professionals, with
government officials, and with the people individually or collectively.
ARTICLE IV
THE TEACHER AND THE PROFESSIONAL
Section1. Every teacher shall actively help insure that teaching is the noblest profession, and shall manifest genuine enthusiasm
and pride in teaching as a noble calling.
Section2. Every teacher shall uphold the highest possible standards of quality education, shall make the best preparation for the
career of teaching, and shall be at his best at all times in the practice of his profession.
Section3. Every teacher shall participate in the continuing professional education (CPE) program of the Professional Regulation
Commission and shall pursue such other studies as well improve his efficiency, enhance the prestige of the profession, and
strengthen his competence, virtues, and productivity in order to be nationally and internationally competitive.
Section4. Every teacher shall help, if duly authorized, to seek support for the school, but shall not make improper
misrepresentations through personal advertisement and other questionable means.

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Section5. Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in a manner that makes it a dignified means for earning a decent
living.
ARTICLE V
THE TEACHER AND THE TEACHING COMMUNITY
Section1. Teacher shall, at all times, be imbued with the spirit of professional loyalty, mutual confidence and faith in one another,
self-sacrifice for the common good and full cooperation with colleagues. When the best interest of the learners, the school, or the
profession is at stake in any controversy, teachers shall support one another.
Section2. A teacher is not entitled to claim for work not of his own, and shall give due credit for the work of others which he may
use.
Section3. Before living his position, a teacher shall organize and leave to his successor such records and other data as are
necessary to carry on the work.
Section4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all confidential information concerning associates and the school, and shall not divulge to
anyone documents which have not yet been officially released, or remove records from the files without official permission.
Section5. It shall be the responsibility of every teacher to seek correctiveness for what may appear to be an unprofessional ad
unethical conduct of any associate. This may be done only if there is incontrovertible evidence for such conduct.
Section6. A teacher may submit to the proper authorities any justifiable criticism against an associate, preferably in writing,
without violating any right of the individual concerned.
Section7. A teacher may apply for a vacant position for which he is qualified, provided that he respects the system of selection
on the basis of merit and competence, provided, further, that all qualified candidates ate given the opportunity to be considered.
ARTICLE VI
THE TEACHER AND HIGHER AUTHORITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
Section1. A teacher shall make it his duty to make an honest effort to understand and support the legitimate policies of the
school and the administration regardless of professional feeling or - private-opinion and shall faithfully carry them out.
Section2. A teacher shall not make any false accusation or charges against superiors, especially under anonymity. However, if
there are valid charges, he should present such under oat h to competent authority.
Section3. A teacher transact all official business through channels except when especial conditions warrant a different
procedure, such as when reforms are advocated directly to the appropriate higher authority.
Section4. A teacher, individually or as part of a group, has a right to seek redress against injustice and discrimination and, to the
extent possible, shall raise his grievances within democratic processes, in doing so, he shall avoid jeopardizing the interest and
welfare of learners whose right to learn must be respected.
Section5. A teacher has a right to invoke the principles that appointments, promotions and transfers of teachers are made only
on the basis of merit and need the interest of the service.
Section6. A teacher who accepts a position assumes a contractual obligation to live up his contract, assuming full knowledge of
the employment terms and conditions.
ARTICLE VII
SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TEACHERS AND OTHER PERSONNEL
Section1. School official shall at all times show professional courtesy, helpfulness and sympathy towards teachers and other
personnel, such practices being standards of effective school supervision, dignified administration, responsible leadership and
enlightened direction
Section2. School official, teachers and other school personnel shall consider it their cooperative responsibility to formulate
policies or introduce important changes in the system at all levels.
Section3. School official shall encourage and attend to the professional growth of ail teachers under them such as
recommending them for promotion, giving them due recognition for meritorious performance, and allowing them to participate in
conferences and training programs.
Section4. No School official shall dismiss or recommend for dismissal a teacher or other subordinates except for cause.
Section5. School authorities concerned shall ensure that public school teachers are employed in accordance with pertinent civil
service rules, and private school teachers are issued contracts specifying the terms and conditions of their work, provided that
they are given, if qualified subsequent permanent tenure, in accordance with existing laws, and provided, further that they are
duly registered and licensed professional teachers.

ARTICLE VIII
THE TEACHER AND LEARNERS
Section1. A teacher has the right and duly determine the academic marks and the promotions of learners in the subjects they
handle. Such determination shall be in accordance with generally accepted producers of evaluation and measurement. In case of
complaint, teachers concerned shall immediately take appropriate action, observing the process.
Section2. A teacher shall recognize that the interest and welfare of learners are his first and foremost concern, and shall handle
each learner justly and impartially.
Section3. Under no circumstance shall a teacher be prejudiced nor discriminatory against any learner.
Section4. A teacher shall not accept-favors or gifts from learners, their parents or other in their behalf in exchanged for requested
concessions, especially it undeserved.

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Section5. A teacher shall not accept, direct or indirectly, any remuneration from tutorials other than what is authorized for such
service.
Section6. A teacher shall base the evaluation of the reamer's work on merit and qualify of academic performance.
Section7. In a situation where mutual attraction and subsequent love develop between teacher and learner the teacher shall
exercise utmost professional discretion to avoid scandal, gossip, and preferential treatment of the learner.
Section8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment offending learner nor make deductions from their scholastic ratings as a
punishment for acts which are dearly not manifestations of poor scholarship.
Section9. A teacher shall insure that conditions contributive to the maximum development of learners are adequate, and shall
extend needed assistance in preventing or solving learner's problems and difficulties.
ARTICLE IX
THE TEACHER AND PARENTS
Section1. A teacher shall establish and maintain cordial relations with parents, and shall conduct himself to merit their confidence
and respect.
Section2. A teacher shall inform parents, through proper authorities, of the progress or deficiencies of learners under him,
exercising utmost candor and tact in pointing out learners' deficiencies and in seeking parent's cooperation for the proper
guidance and improvements of learners.
Section3. ft teacher shall hear parent's complaints with sympathy and understanding, and shall discourage unfair criticism.
ARTICLE X
THE TEACHER AND BUSINESS
Section1. A teacher has right to engage, directly or indirectly, in legitimate income generation, provided that it does not relate to
or adversely affect his work.
Section2. A teacher shall maintain a good reputation, with respect to financial matters such as in the settlement of his debts,
loans and other financial.
Section3. No teacher shall act, directly or indirectly, as agent of or be financially interested in. any commercial venture which
furnish textbooks and other school commodities in the purchase and disposal of which he can exercise official influence, except
only when his assignments is inherently related to such purchase and disposal, provided that such shall be in accordance with
existing regulations.
ARTICLE XI
THE TEACHER AS A PERSON
Section1. A teacher shall live with dignity in all places at all times.
Section2. A teacher shall place premium upon self respect and self-discipline and the principle of personal behavior in ail
relationships with others and in all situations.
Section3. A teacher shall maintain at all times a dignified personality which could serve as a model worthy of emulation by
learners, peers and others.
Section4. A teacher shall always recognize the Almighty God or being a guide of his own destinies of men and nations.
ARTICLE XII
DISCIPLINARY ACTION
Section1. Any violation of any provision of this Code shall be sufficient ground for imposition against the teacher of disciplinary
action consisting of revocation of his Certificate of Registration and License as Professional Teacher, suspension of the practice
of the teaching profession reprimand or cancellation of his temporary / special permit under causes specified in Sec. 23, Article
III or R.A 7836, and under Rule 31, Article VIII, of the Rules and Regulation Implementing R.A No. 7836.
ARTICLE XIII
EFFECTIVITY
Section1. This code shall be" approved by the Professional Regulation Commission and shall take effect sixty (60) days following
its publication in the Official Gazette or any newspaper of general circulation, whichever is earlier.