The Teaching Profession

The Teaching Profession

• Professionals have skills, expertise, and adhere to ethical and technical standards.
• Teachers are licensed and possess dignity, high moral values, and technical/professional competence.
• The teaching profession inspires and motivates students to achieve their potential and be good human beings.

Elements of the Teaching Profession

• Completing an academic program is the initial step in professional education.
• Professionals are expected to learn continuously, even after their initial education.

Professional Societies

• Professionals belong to communities that prioritize professional standards over self-interest.

Code of Ethics

• Professionals can be removed from societies or lose licenses for violating their code of ethics.

Accreditation

• Academic programs require approval by regulatory bodies to ensure quality and graduate competence.

Licensing

• Licensing is a mandatory requirement administered by a government authority.

Professional Development

• Professional development involves ongoing education to improve professional knowledge and skills.
• RA 10912, the Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016, oversees aspects of professional development.

"Pwede Na" Mentality

• A "pwede na" mentality hinders excellent mission preparation and accomplishment.

Demands of Society From Teachers

• Society demands teachers to teach effectively.
• A teacher's main concern is the learning of the learner.
• Professionals have teacher education degrees, pass licensure exams (LET), maintain high moral values, and adhere to ethical principles.
• A professional teacher's primary responsibility is to teach, focusing on the learner as the primary customer.

Marzano's Causal Teacher Evaluation Model

• Classroom Strategies and Behaviors: establishing goals, giving feedback, helping students interact, generate/test hypotheses.
• Planning and Preparing: include lessons, technology, special education, and students lacking support.
• Reflection on Teaching: evaluate performance, developing/monitoring the professional growth plan.
• Collegiality and Professionalism: promoting positive interactions, seeking/mentoring, adhering to rules, participating.

Danielson Framework

• Four areas of teaching focus: Planning and Preparation, Classroom Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities.

McREL Model

• Focuses on leadership, establishing respectful environments, content knowledge, facilitating learning, and self-reflection.

Teacher Competencies

• Effective teaching requires planning, delivering instruction, creating conducive environments, assessing progress, and demonstrating professionalism.
• The Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST) outlines competencies in seven domains, 37 strands, and 148 indicators across four career stages.

Domain 1: Content Knowledge and Pedagogy

• Focuses on content knowledge, research-based principles, ICT use, literacy/numeracy strategies, critical thinking, language skills, and communication.

Domain 2: Learning Environment

• Involves learner safety, fair learning, classroom management, supporting participation, promoting learning, and managing behavior.

Domain 3: Diversity of Learners

• Encompasses learner diversity, including gender, needs, linguistic/cultural backgrounds, disabilities, circumstances, and indigenous groups.

Domain 4: Curriculum and Planning

• Includes teaching/learning processes, outcomes, learning programs, collaboration, and resources including ICT.

Domain 5: Assessment and Reporting

• Focuses on assessment strategies, monitoring learner progress, providing feedback, communicating with stakeholders, and using assessment data.

Domain 6: Community Linkages and Professional Engagement

• Links learning environments to the community, engages parents, maintains professional ethics, and adheres to school policies.

Domain 7: Personal Growth and Professional Development

• Covers teaching philosophy, professional dignity, links with colleagues, reflection, and professional goals.

Career Stages in Teaching

• Professional development is a continuous process from beginning to expert.
• The standards framework recognizes the importance of this development and its contribution to educational reforms.
• Career stages provide a continuum for attracting, preparing, developing, and supporting teachers.

Career Stage 1: Beginning Teachers

• Those beginning teachers have qualifications and strong subject knowledge.
• Beginning teachers manage programs and seek advice from colleagues.

Career Stage 2: Proficient Teachers

• Proficient teachers are independent, meet curriculum needs, and collaborate actively.
• Proficient teachers continually improve their knowledge, skills, and practices.

Career Stage 3: Highly Proficient Teachers

• Highly proficient teachers display expertise, problem-solving skills, and collaborate with colleagues.
• The highly proficient continually seek to enhance their expertise through reflection.

Career Stage 4: Distinguished Teachers

• Distinguished teachers embody high teaching standards based on best practices.
• The best teachers are leaders, contributors, and collaborators who inspire the community.

Demands from Teachers as Persons

• Teachers should be credible.

Characteristics of Effective Teachers

• Effective teachers are prepared, positive, set high expectations, and are creative.
• Effective teachers are fair, approachable, cultivate belonging, compassionate, and have humor.
• Effective teachers respect students, are forgiving, and admit mistakes.

Code of Ethics Resolution 435

• Teachers are professionals with moral values and competence who adhere to ethical principles.

Article 1: Scope and Limitations

• All teachers in the Philippines should have quality education.
• Applies to all public and private school settings.
• Covers all preschool through secondary levels in academic or non-formal setting.

Article 2: The Teacher and the State

• Schools are fundamental to citizenship.
• Teachers are trustees of cultural and educational heritage.
• They elevate morality, promote pride, allegiance, obedience, and respect.
• Help implement state policies.
• The state provides support and ensures physical, mental, and moral fitness.
• Teachers must maintain devotion to duty, avoid partisan interests, uphold constitutional rights and academic freedom.

Article 3: The Teacher and the Community

• Teachers facilitate learning by providing conducive environments.
• They provide leadership for community betterment.
• They maintain honor, dignity, and harmonious relations.