CODE OF ETHICS FOR

PROFESSIONAL
TEACHERS

B Y: C RI STY B AG ONG ON
PREAMBLE

• Teachers are duly licensed professional who possess dignity

and reputation with high moral values as well as technical
and professional competence in the practice of their noble
profession, and they strictly adhere to, observe, and
practice this set of ethical and moral principles, standards,
and values.
ARTICLE 1 (SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
• Section 1: The Philippine Constitution provides that all educational
institutions shall offer quality education for all competent teachers.
Committed to its full realization, the provision of this code shall apply,
therefore, to all teachers in schools in the Philippines.

• Section 2: This code covers all public and private school teachers in all
educational institutions at the preschool, primary, secondary levels
whether academic, vocational, special technical or non-formal. The term
“teacher” include industrial art or vocational teachers and all other
persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all
school at the aforesaid levels, whether on full-time or part-time basis.
ARTICLE II: 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, in still
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.
ARTICLE II: THE TEACHER AND THE
STATE
• 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.
ARTICLE II: THE TEACHER AND THE
STATE
• 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 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 honour and dignity at all times and refrain from
such activities as gambling, smoking, drunkenness and other excesses, much
less illicit relations.
ARTICLE III: THE TEACHER AND THE
COMMUNITY
• 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 counselling services, as appropriate, and to actively be involved in matters
affecting the welfare of the people
ARTICLE III: THE TEACHER AND THE
COMMUNITY
• Section 7: Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant personal and
official relations with other professionals, with government officials, and with
the people, individually o 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 IV: THE TEACHER AND
PROFESSION
• Section 1: 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.

• 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.
ARTICLE IV: THE TEACHER AND
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 will provide 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
advertisement and other questionable means.
ARTICLE IV: THE TEACHER AND
PROFESSION
• Section 5: 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
• Section 1: Teachers 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.

• 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.
ARTICLE V: THE TEACHER AND THE
TEACHING COMMUNITY
• Section 4: 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, o 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 maybe done only if there is incontrovertible evidence for such
conduct.
ARTICLE V: THE TEACHER AND THE
TEACHING COMMUNITY
• 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 and 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.

• Section 2: A teacher shall not make any false accusation or charges against