SESSION 4: PHILIPPINE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR
TEACHERS (PPST)
Pre-Test
Check whether each statement is true
or false.
TRUE FALSE
1. PPST stands for Philippine Professional
Standards for Teachers.
2. There are 37 Domains and 7 strands in PPST.
3. There are 4 career stages from Beginning to
Proficient Teacher.
4. The number of years in service determines
the career stages of teachers.
5. Providing safe learning environment is the
sole duty of a school head.
6. Every teacher is expected to know diversity of
learners.
7. Learning outcomes should be aligned with the
learning objectives.
8. Learners and parents should inform the
teachers about the results of the learning
assessment.
9. Beginning teachers can only get professional
growth through seminars.
10. All teachers need to have professional goals
to improve teaching practice.
Activities and Assessment
A. “Map Me”
In this activity, you are going to make your own career map by
answering the question below. (Note: Please read and understand
DepEd Order 42, s.2017)
Make your own timeline.
Beginning – Proficient - Highly Proficient – Distinguished
Years 1-2 Years 3-4 Years 5-6 Years 7-8 Years 9-10
Years in Teaching Career Stage
Years 1-2 Beginning Teacher
Years 3-4
Years 5-6
Years 7-8
Years 9-10
1. In what career stage are you now as a teacher?
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2. In what career stage do you situate yourself 10 years from now?
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3. What professional development activities would you engage in to
achieve your desired career stage?
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Answer the questions that follow.
1. What are the different career stages of teachers?
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2. How will you go to the next higher career stage?
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3. Is it possible for a beginning teacher to stay in 1 career stage for 5–10
years? Why or why not?
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What I Learned
What are the seven domains of the PPST? Discuss each domain
briefly based on your own understanding.
Domains Brief Discussion
1. What is the difference between domains and strands, and strands
and indicators?
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2. Why do we need to set standards for teachers?
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3. As a beginning teacher, which do you consider as the most
important among the seven domains? Justify your stand.
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D. What I Do
Read thoroughly Domain 1 Content Knowledge and Pedagogy particularly
the three indicators in the beginning and proficient teachers. Answer the
questions that Which of the indicators can you confidently say you are
doing?
1. Which of the indicators are you NOT doing yet?
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2. What do you notice about the indicators from beginning to
proficient teacher?
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D. Read the following teaching practices. With all honesty,
choose your answer by ticking (/) the box that corresponds to
your answer.
A- Always S- Sometimes N- Never
How often do you do the following in your teaching practice?
Indicators A S N
1.Demonstrates content knowledge and its application within
and /or across curriculum teaching areas
2.Shows skill in the positive use of ICT to facilitate the Teaching –
Learning Process
3.Demonstrates knowledge of strategies that promote reading and
numeracy skills
4.Applies teaching strategies that develop critical and creative
thinking and/or other higher order thinking skills
5. Demonstrates an understanding of the range of verbal and
nonverbal classroom communication strategies that support
learner understanding, participation, engagement, and
achievement.
6.Uses Mother Tongue, Filipino, and English to facilitate teaching
and learning
7.Demonstrates understanding of research based knowledge and
principle of teaching and learning
E. What I Realize
Read thoroughly Domain 3 Diversity of Learners particularly the
three indicators in
1. What teaching practices do you think are responsive to
the call of the indicators in Domain 3 to address
diversity of learners?
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2. To address learner diversity, what teaching practices
would you employ to enable you to move from
beginning to the proficient career stage?
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Reflection
As a teacher, what are the indicators under beginning stage that you can do? Is it
possible that you can move to the higher career stage? Knowing where you are,
what professional development goals could you prepare based on your strength
and areas for improvement?
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Based on the results of the self-assessment tool, make a professional development
plan.
Professional Development Goal
Areas for Recommended Time Persons
Strengths Improvement Development/Intervention frame Involved
Post-Test
Check whether each statement is
true or false.
TRUE FALSE
I. Learning outcomes should be aligned with
the learning objectives.
II. Providing safe learning environment is the
sole duty of a school head.
III. There are 4 career stages from Beginning to
Proficient Teacher.
IV. The number of years in service determines
the career stages of teachers.
V. There are 37 Domains and 7 strands in the
PPST.
VI. PPST stands for Philippine Professional
Standards for Teachers.
VII. Every teacher is expected to know diversity
of learners.
VIII. Learners and parents should inform the
teachers about the results of the learning
assessment.
IX. Beginning teachers can only get professional
growth through seminars.
X. All teachers need to have professional goals
to improve teaching practice.
