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MODULE 6: THE CODE OF ETHICS FOR PROFESSIONAL

TEACHERS: RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SECONDARY AND
TERTIARY STAKEHOLDERS

“IT TAKES A WHOLE VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD.” – AFRICAN PROVERB

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

• explain how professional teachers should relate to the state, community, parents all
education stakeholders.

THE TEACHER AND THE STATE

The education of a child is not the sole responsibility of school heads and teachers. In
fact, school heads and teachers cannot do it by themselves. As the African proverb says, “It takes
a whole village to raise a child.” The Code of Ethics cites a different group of external stakeholders
with whom schools and teachers have to relate and work for the education of the child. These
are the state (Article II) the Community (Article III) and the parents (Article IX). Secondary
stakeholders indirectly receive the service. These are the learners’ parents. Tertiary stakeholders
are indirect but crucial participants in the process of children’s education. These are the future
employers, the government or the state, and society in general.

ARTICLE II

THE TEACHER AND THE STATE

Section 1. The schools are the nurseries of the future 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 for all duly constituted authorities, and
promote obedience to the laws of the state.

Section 2. Every teacher or school official shall actively help carryout the declared policies of the
state, and shall take an oath to this effect.

Section 3. In the interest of the State and 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 a 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 or
service or other valuable material from any person or entity for such purposes

Reference: Corpuz, Brenda, Lucas, Ma. Rita D, et al. (2015). Child & Adolescent Development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

Address: Davao del Norte State College Website: www.dnsc.edu.ph

Tadeco Road, New Visayas Email: [email protected]
Panabo City, Davao del Norte, 8105 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/davnorstatecollege
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Section 6. Every teacher shall vote and shall exercise all other constitutional rights and
responsibility.

Section 7. A teacher shall not use his position or facial authority or influence to coerce any other
person to follow any political course of action.

Section 8. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom and shall have privilege of expounding
the product of his researches and investigations: provided that, if the results are inimical to the
declared policies of the State, they shall be brought to the proper authorities for appropriate
remedial action.

ANALYSIS: Let’s Analyze

1. The schools are the “nurseries of the citizens of the state.” What are nurseries for? Why
are schools called the nurseries of the citizens of the state?’
2. “Each teacher is a trustee of the cultural and educational heritage of the nation and is
under obligation to transmit to learn such heritage.” In what ways can teachers do this?
3. In what ways can the professional teacher help elevate national morality, promote
national pride, and cultivate love of country?
4. What steps do employers take to ensure that a teacher is physically, mentally, and morally
fit?
5. Cite actions of a professional teacher that violate Section 5, Article II?
6. How can a professional teacher violate Section 6 and Section 7 of Article II?
7. Every teacher shall enjoy academic freedom. What does academic freedom mean? Is this
academic freedom absolute?

ABSTRACTION: Let’s Add to What You Know

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a “nursery” as a “place where babies and
young children are cared for while their parents are somewhere else.” In horticulture, a nursery
is a place where young plants and trees are cultivated and grown.

Both definitions may apply to the statement in the Code of Ethics: “schools are the
nurseries of the citizens of the state.” Indeed parents leave their children in school under the
care of teachers while they work. Like nurseries where young plants are cultivated and grown,
schools through teachers are entrusted with the noble task of instilling pride in learners one’s
cultural and educational heritage, love of country, and sowing the seeds of national morality.
There are many things in our Filipino culture that we can be proud of and are therefore
worth preserving and passing on to maintain Filipino identity, promote national pride and
cultivate love of the country.
Every teacher is expected to be fit or else cannot perform his/her function. Pursuant
to Sec. 22 (Medical Examination and Treatment) of RA 4670 otherwise known as the Magna Carta
to Public School Teachers, teachers shall undergo annual physical examination free of charge not
less than once a year during the teacher’s professional life.
As a professional, the teacher is expected not to take advantage of his/her position or
power to promote his/her own interest whether political, nor religious, nor to solicit require, or
collect any money, service, or material from any person.
Reference: Corpuz, Brenda, Lucas, Ma. Rita D, et al. (2015). Child & Adolescent Development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

Address: Davao del Norte State College Website: www.dnsc.edu.ph

Tadeco Road, New Visayas Email: [email protected]
Panabo City, Davao del Norte, 8105 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/davnorstatecollege
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A professional teacher violates Section 6 of Article II if he/she fails to vote for no
justifiable reason. Voting is a teacher’s participation in the affairs of the state.
He/she also violates Section 7 of Article 2 if he/she engages in partisan politics.
Teachers have to preserve the dignity of the education sector by not engaging directly or
indirectly in electioneering except to vote. Engaging in partisan politics is a teacher’s abuse of
authority.
The professional teacher shall enjoy academic freedom so he/she can share the
product of his/her research and investigations in support of the endless search for truth.
However, this academic freedom is not absolute. It has limits. If the research findings are
damaging to the state, the research results shall be submitted to the proper authorities for
appropriate action.

APPLICATION: Let’s Apply What You Learned

What is the professional thing to do?

1. Teacher B has a brother candidate for the mayoral race in their hometown. The brother’s
opponent has a very good chance of winning and so Teacher B starts secretly campaigning
for his brother. Is this professional?
2. By means of a PowerPoint presentation showing how a professional teacher should relate
to the state. (by group)

THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY

Introduction

The teacher works in, for, and with the community. He/she rubs elbows with the
leaders and members of the community who, like him/her, aspire for the development of the
young. He/she works in a community with its own established customs and traditions which are
sometimes different from the practices of the community where he/she belongs.

ACTIVITY: Let’s Read These

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 service 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 for such activities as gambling, smoking,
drunkenness, and other excesses, much less illicit relations.

Reference: Corpuz, Brenda, Lucas, Ma. Rita D, et al. (2015). Child & Adolescent Development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

Address: Davao del Norte State College Website: www.dnsc.edu.ph

Tadeco Road, New Visayas Email: [email protected]
Panabo City, Davao del Norte, 8105 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/davnorstatecollege
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Section 4. Every teacher shall live for and with the community and shall, therefore, study and
understand local customs and traditions in order to have 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 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 posses freedom to attend church and worships as appropriate, but shall not
use his positions and influence to proselyte others.

Below are the key words which you have to locate in Article III of the Code of Ethics. Find them
and read that section that contains the word/s again.

facilitator of learning conducive environment

leadership harmonious official relations
not use position to proselyte disparaging the community
social recognition community informed

ANALYSIS: Let’s Analyze

Work as a group. Take turns to explain in your own words how a teacher should relate
to a tertiary stakeholder, the community, by using the keywords.

ABSTRACTION: Let’s Add to What You Know

As a professional teacher, he/she is a facilitator of learning by ensuring that he/she
provides a favorable environment for learning. He/she acts as a leader by initiating and
participating in community activities for the benefit of community members and the community
as a whole. As a community leader he/she deals with other professionals and community officials
harmoniously and professionally. Because he/she wants to work with the community he/she
keeps people informed of developments in school. He/she does not take advantage of his/her
position as a professional teacher to proselyte. Neither does he/she criticize community customs
and traditions. Instead, he/she exerts effort to understand them with a sympathetic attitude.
Above all, to be a credible community leader, he/she earns the respect of the community by
behaving with dignity at all times and so will not engage in vices such as gambling, smoking,
drunkenness, and illicit relations.

Reference: Corpuz, Brenda, Lucas, Ma. Rita D, et al. (2015). Child & Adolescent Development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

Address: Davao del Norte State College Website: www.dnsc.edu.ph

Tadeco Road, New Visayas Email: [email protected]
Panabo City, Davao del Norte, 8105 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/davnorstatecollege
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APPLICATION: Let’s Apply What You Learned
Form groups of 7. Each group must come up with a skit to illustrate how a professional
teacher should relate to the community. In your skit, you may want to present the contrast of
teachers’ expected professional behavior.

THE TEACHER AND THE PARENTS

Introduction
Parents are secondary stakeholders while their children (learners) are primary
stakeholders.

ACTIVITY: Let’s Do These

ARTICLE IX: The Teacher and Parents

Section 1. Every teacher shall establish and maintain cordial relations with parents, and shall
conduct himself to merit their confidence and respect.

Section 2. Every teacher shall inform parents, through proper authorities, of the progress and
deficiencies of learner under him. exercising utmost candor and tact in pointing out learners
deficiencies and in seeking parent’s cooperation for the proper guidance and improvement of
the learners.

Section 3. A teacher shall hear parent’s complaints with sympathy and understanding, and shall
discourage unfair criticism.

View How to: A Teacher’s Guide to Parent Teacher Conferences on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?video

ANALYSIS: Let’s Analyze

Do you agree with everything that was shared in the video? If yes, give at least 2. If
not, state that or those that you do not agree with and explain why you do not agree.

APPLICATION: Let’s Apply What You Learned

State 5 DO’s and DON’Ts on how you should relate to parents for the sake of learners.
Make sure your Do’s and Do’s are concrete. e.g. Make sure you have a box of facial tissue with
you for parents who become emotional.

Reference: Corpuz, Brenda, Lucas, Ma. Rita D, et al. (2015). Child & Adolescent Development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

Address: Davao del Norte State College Website: www.dnsc.edu.ph

Tadeco Road, New Visayas Email: [email protected]
Panabo City, Davao del Norte, 8105 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/davnorstatecollege