THE CODE OF ETHICS FOR

3 PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS

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 other
noble profession, they strictly adhere to, observe, and practice this set off ethical and
moral principles, standard, and values.
Article I
Scope and Limitations
Section 1. The Philippine constitution provides that all educational institutions shall offer
quality education for all Filipino citizens, a vision that requires professionally competent
teachers committed to is full realization. The provisions of this code shell apply,
therefore, to all teachers in all 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 weather
academic, vocational, special, technical or non-formal. the term " teacher" shall include
industrial art or vocational teachers and all other persons performing supervisory and
administrative functions in all schools at the aforesaid levels, weather on full-time part-
time basis.

The code of ethics for professional teachers: relationship with the secondary and
tertiary stakeholders

Article 2
The Teacher and the State
Section 1. The schools are the nurseries of the citizens of the state. 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 respect for all
duly constituted authorities, and promote obedience to the laws of the state.
Section 2. Every teacher or school official shall actively help carry out the declared
policies of the state, and shall take an oath to this effect.
Section 3. 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.
Section 4. Every teacher shall possess and actualize full commitment and devotion to
duty.
Section 5. 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.
Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional rights and
responsibilities.
Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position or official authority' of influence to coerce
any other person to follow any political course of action.
Section 8. 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
Section 1. A teacher is a facilitator of learning and 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.
Section 2. Every teacher shall provide leadership and initiative to actively participate in
community movements for moral, social, educational, economic and civic betterment.
Section 3. 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 as
gambling, smoking, drunkenness and other excesses, much less illicit relations.
Section 4. 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.
Section 5. Every teacher shall help the school keep the people in the community
informed about the school's work and accomplishments as well as its needs and
problems.
Section 6. 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 counseling services, as appropriate, and to actively be involved in matters
affecting the welfare of the people.
Section 7. Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant personal and official
relations with other professionals, with government officials, and with the people,
individually or collectively.
Section 8. A teacher possesses freedom to attend church and worship, as appropriate, but
shall not use his position and influence to proselyte others.

Article IX
The Teacher and the Parents
Section 1. A teacher shall establish and maintain cordial relations with parents, and shall
conduct himself to merit their confidence and respect.
Section 2. A teacher shall inform parents, through proper authorities, of the progress or
deficiencies of learners under him, exercising at most candor and tact in pointing out
learners’ deficiencies and in seeking parent’s cooperation for the proper guidance and
improvement of learners.
Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent’s complaints with sympathy and understanding,
and shall discourage unfair criticism.

The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: Relationship with the Internal
Stakeholders

Article VIII.
The Teacher and the Learners
Section 1. A teacher has the right and duty to determine the academic marks and the
promotion of learners in the subjects they handle. Such determination shall be in
accordance with generally accepted producers of evaluation and measurement. In case of
any complaint, teachers concerned shall immediately take appropriate action, observing
the process.
Section 2. 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.
Section 3. Under no circumstances shall a teacher be prejudiced nor discriminatory
against any learner.
Section 4. A teacher shall not accept favors or gifts from learners, their parents or others
in their behalf in exchange for requested concessions, especially if under served.
Section 5. A teacher shall not accept, directly or indirectly, any remuneration from
tutorials other than what is authorized for such service.
Section 6. A teacher shall base the evaluation of the learner’s work on merit and quality
of academic performance.
Section 7. In a situation where mutual attraction and subsequent love develop between
teacher and learner, the teacher shall exercise at most professional discretion to avoid
scandal, gossip, and preferential treatment of the learner.
Section 8. A teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment on offending learners nor
make ductions from their scholastic ratings as a punishment for acts which are clearly not
manifestations of poor scholarship.
Section 9. A teacher shall ensure 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 V
The Teacher and the Teaching Community
Section 1. Teachers shall, at all times, be imbued with the spirit a 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.
Section 2. 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.
Section 3. Before leaving his position, a teacher shall organize and leave to his successor
such records and other data as are necessary to carry on the work.
Section 4. A teacher shall hold inviolate all confidential information concerning
associates and the school, and shall not divulge to any documents which have not yet
been officially released, or remove records from the files without official permission.
Section 5. It shall be the responsibility of every teacher to seek correctives for what may
appear to be an unprofessional and unethical conduct of any associate. This may be done
only if there is incontrovertible evidence for such conduct.
Section 6. 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.
Section 7. 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 are given the opportunity to be considered.

Article VI
The Teacher and Higher Authorities in the Philippines

Section 1. A teacher shall make it his duty to make an honest effort to understand and
support the legitimate policies of the school and administration regardless of professional
feeling or private opinion and shall faithfully carry them out.
Section 2. A teacher shall not make any false accusation or charges against superiors,
specially under anonymity. However, if there are valid charges, he should present such
under oath to competent authority.
Section 3. A teacher shall transact all official business through channels except when
special conditions warrant a different procedure, such as when reforms are advocated but
are opposed by the immediate superior, in which case the teachers appeal directly to the
appropriate higher authority.
Section 4. 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.
Section 5. A teacher has a right to invoke the principle that appointments, promotions,
and transfers of teachers are made only on the basis of merit and need in the interest of
the service.
Section 6. A teacher who accept a position assumes a contractual obligation to live up to
his contract, assuming full knowledge of the employment terms and conditions.
The Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers: His/Her Person, Profession and
Business

Article IV
The Teacher and the Profession
Section 1. Every teacher shall actively help ensure that teaching is the noblest profession,
and shall manifest genuine enthusiasm and pride in teaching as a noble calling.
Section 2. 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.
Section 3. 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.
Section 4. Every teacher shall help, if duly authorized, to seek support for the school, but
shall not make improper misrepresentations through personal advertisements and other
questionable means.
Section 5. Every teacher shall use the teaching profession in a manner that makes it a
dignified means for earning a decent living.

Article XI
The Teacher as a Person

Section 1. A teacher shall live with dignity in all places at all times.
Section 2. A teacher shall place premium upon self-respect and self-discipline as the
principle of personal behavior in all relationships with others and in all situations.
Section 3. A teacher shall maintain all times a dignified personality which could serve as
model worthy of emulation by learners, peers, and others.
Section 4. A teacher shall always recognize the Almighty God or Being as guide of his
own destiny and of the destinies of men and nations.

Article X
The Teacher and Business
Section 1. A teacher has a right to engage, directly or indirectly, in legitimate income
generation, provided that it does not relate to or adversely affect his work.
Section 2. A teacher shall maintain a good reputation with respect to financial matters
such as the settlement of he's just debts, loans and other financial affairs.
Section 3. 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,
accept only when his assignment is inherently related to such purchase and disposal,
provided that such shall be in accordance with existing regulations.