College of Education

CPE 102
THE TEACHER & THE
COMMUNITY, SCHOOL,
CULTURE, &
ORGANIZATIONAL
LEADERSHIP

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 Republic of the Philippines
MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY – MAGUINDANAO
Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
e-mail: [email protected]

THE TEACHER & THE

COMMUNITY,
SCHOOL, CULTURE,
& ORGANIZATIONAL
LEADERSHIP

Linang Basar-Monir, Ed.D.

Second Semester
2021-2022

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 LESSON 7

THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY: TEACHER’S ETHICAL

AND PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR

Overview:

Credibility, good behavior, and community leader, and with dignity are the
characteristics of a professional teacher.
As an educator, teachers must treat every student with kindness and
respect without showing any favoritism and prejudice.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this lesson, the students can:

a. elaborate on community’s expectations from teachers and on
teachers’ expectation from communities, and
b. describe teacher’s ethical and professional behavior in the
community by giving concrete examples.
Materials Needed: Textbooks, Android cellphones, lap top, Module in CPE108

Duration: 4.5 hours

Learning Content:

Code of Professional Teacher, Article III

The very title of this Unit indicates that teachers are expected to be part of
the community. To be part of the community definitely means to participate in the
life of that community. What is that community referred to here? The 8 Sections of
article III of the code of Ethics refers to the community within the school and the
community outside the school. How can teachers be a part of the community? The
various Sections of Article III give more details.

Teachers as Facilitator of Learning

Article III, Section 1 states that the. Teacher is a facilitator of learning and the
development of the youth… therefore shall render the best service by providing an
environment conducive for such learning and growth.
Facilitator comes from the world “facilitator” which means to make something
easy or easier. You as, the professional teacher, facilitate learning or make
learning easier. Learning is a difficult task and is made easier when you make dry
lesson interesting, exciting and enjoyable. As a professional teacher, you make
learning easier when you simplify the complex and concretize the abstract. This is
what is ethical for every professional teacher like you ought to do. This you can do
after four long years of academic preparation.
What happens sometimes, however, is teachers complicate the simple and
teacher only at the abstract level.

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 To facilitate learning, a Conducive learning environment is necessary. It has
been proven that learning learn best in a pleasant environment. A pleasant
environment is where the learners can be themselves because teachers are
caring. No need to put best self forward because teachers and classmates truly
care and take you for ho you are. All forms of bullying has no place in a conducive
learning environment. A Conducive learning environment makes learners believe
they can do the work and they feel accepted. A favorable learning climate is not
competitive where everyone is tense.
The teacher who believes that “Every child deserves a champion, an adult
who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and
insists they become the best they can possibly be” like Teacher Rita Pierson in
TED Talk is a facilitator of learning.

Teacher Leadership and Initiative for Community Participation

Section 2 refers to the “leadership and initiative of the professional teacher to

participate in community movements for moral, social, economic and civic
betterment of the community”. As professional teachers you do not live in an ivory
tower, meaning you are not supposed to be removed nor aloof from community
life. Schools are at the heart of communities and you as professional teachers are
expected to be be-in-the-world and to be-in-the-world-with-others and for others
(borrowing the words of Heidigger).
The words of Section 2 of Article III are “provide leadership and initiative…”
this implies that as a professional teacher you have not to wait for community to
ask for help. Section 6 further explicates how you can show your professional
leadership, to wit: “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 be
actively involved in matters affecting the welfare of people.”
You do not just welcome the opportunity to lead. Section 2, states that you,
the professional teacher ought to take the initiative to offer your help for the
improvement of the community. Many a time, you can be a guidance counselor, a
prayer leader, commentator or reader in religious celebrations, fiesta coordinator,
judge in or coach for a contest, financial adviser, a doctor, a commentator, prayer
rolled into one.
Providing leadership and initiative also means working with the community.
This means getting the parents and other members of the community participate
in school activities.
Teachers, as they participate in community after prove that they “are the most
responsible and most important members of society because their professional
efforts affect the faith of the earth.”

Professional Teacher with Honor and Dignity

Section 3 states: “Every teacher shall merit reasonable and 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.” Obviously, if as a professional teacher, you are an inveterate
gambler, chain smoker and alcoholic or if it is common knowledge that you are

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 engaged in an illicit relationship, how can you have moral authority? Who will listen
to you when you advise your class not to smoke, not to drink alcohol drinks, not to
gamble ? Your audience will say “Look, who is talking!” it is matter of “do what I
say not what I do.”
Society expects so much of teachers that when they fail to live up to the
challenge to behave or model good behavior, they are “condemned without trial!”
It is no wonder why many are afraid to answer the call to teach. Society seems to
expect much more from professional teacher than from any other professional and
so look at teachers with scrutinizing eyes.
The quotation states “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased”
but the influence of dishonorable teacher is as lasting.”

Teacher’s Attitude Toward Local Customs and Traditions

Section 4 expects every teacher to live for and with 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.” The
professional teacher is neither ethnocentric nor xenocentric. He/she is not
ethnocentric and so does not look down on community’s culture because of the
thought that his/her culture is superior to the culture of the community. Neither is
he/she xenocentric and so looks at his/her culture as inferior in to other
community’s culture.
Fortunate and happy is the community that has teacher who live them, exert
to understand their local customs and traditions consequently appreciate the
same. This author sees no culture as perfect. Every culture include hers has its
positive and negative aspects. What we need to pass on are the positive aspects
of the culture. We need to purify, however, the negative aspects with teacher
pointing them out tactfully and sincerely.

The Professional Teacher and Information Update

Section 5 states that the teacher “shall help the school inform the community
about the school’s work, accomplishments, needs and problems. Community here
refers to internal as well as external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders include
the students, the parents of the students and the teachers. The external
stakeholders are the other parents in the community without children enrolled in
school, barangay officials and other government officials, non-government
organizations, government organizations, alumni /alumnae and retirees.
Why do these stakeholders have to be informed? The school is there for the
community and so the community has the right to be informed about its activities,
accomplishments, needs and problems. Informing them about the school’s
projects needs and problems give them a sense of ownership. Having a sense of
ownership, these stakeholders will participate more actively in the resolution of the
school’s problems and needs.

The Parents-Teachers Association

We have Parent’s and Teachers’ Associations (PTA) in place in every school.

Some private schools call it Home School Association or Family Advisory Council.

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 This is for internal stakeholders only. A PTA is an association of teachers and
parents with children who are enrolled in a school. It is a forum for discussions o
school problems and how they can be solved.

The School Government Council

Other than the PTA is the School Governing Council. The SSG has different
membership and functions. A School Governing Council as a policy-making body
has the school head as Chief Executive Officer, Manager and Chief Operation
Officer. The formation of SSG in every school is a proof of school head sharing
his/her leadership with members of the community.
It determines general policies on student welfare, discipline, well-being; it is
concerned with the development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation
of the school Improvement Plan (SIP), and reporting of the progress of the SIP
implementation to the School Division Superintendent and the community.
In addition to PTAs are the School Government Council in every public
school. This School Governing Council shares in the management of the school
with School Head as chair. This School Council is another opportunity for
communities to participate in school activities.

The Professional Teacher and Government Officials and Other Professionals

Section 7 states: “Every teacher shall maintain harmonious an pleasant

personal and official relation with other professionals, with government officials and
with the people individually or collectively.” As a professional teacher, you cannot
afford not to be in pleasant relations with others especially those with whom you
work with like other professional teachers. It is always best to be in good terms
with everyone else in the community
Desiderata gives this advice: “As far as possible, without surrender, be on
good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to
others.”

The Professional Teacher does not Use Professional to Proselyte

Finally, Section 8, says: “A teacher possesses freedom to attend church and

worship as appropriate, but shall not use his position and influence to proselyte
others. “to be in a position means to have power or influence for a purpose, i.e. for
you to use that position to perform your job as a professional teacher. It is highly
unprofessional for a teacher like you to use your position of influence to proselyte.
Besides freedom of religion is guaranteed by the 1987 Philippine Constitution. “No
law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and
worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed.” (Article II,
Section 6).

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 References:

Pawilen, Greg, T. et. al. (2019). The School and the Community, School Culture,
And Organizational Leadership. (1st ed.) Manila: Rex Books Store

Prieto, Nelia G. et. al, ( 2019). The Teacher and the Community, School Culture
and Organizational Leadership. Manila: Lorimar Publishing Inc.

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