FS 6

On Becoming A Teacher

FIELD STUDY
Episode 5

THE TEACHER AS A PROFESSIONAL

Name of FS Student: Kier A. Baugbog
Course: Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics Year & Section: Math 4-1
Resource Teacher: Folencio C. Carreon
Cooperating School: Dalandanan National High School

Your Target
At the end of this episode, you will demonstrate a deeper understanding of the
rights, duties, and responsibilities of a professional teacher and their impact on you as a
future teacher.

Your Map
Ignorance of the law, excuses no one. This is true for everyone. A true
professional always know both his rights and duties. These are two equal sides of the
coin.
For you to achieve your target, do the following tasks:
Step 1: Gather information about the policies and guidelines concerning teachers,
implemented by your cooperating school.
Step 2: Interview the principal/head teacher/your resource teacher about the
implementation of these policies and guidelines.
Step 3: Analyze the policies and guidelines in the light of values and pertinent
laws.
Step 4: Reflect on the impact of all these to your future life as a full-fledge
professional teacher.

Your Tools
Use the activity form provided for you to document your observations/data
gathered.
Read the following carefully before you begin to interview. Then fill out the
matrix on the next page.
Policies/Guidelines

No discrimination

Academic freedom

Teachers and the

profession

Teachers and the

profession

Salary scale

Comments/Sharing of
the Interviewee

Values Shown

Pertinent
Laws/Provisions that
served
as a legalteachers
basis
procedures concerning
of the policy/guideline

1. Find out about the policies and

by
reading the school
or teachers manual of your cooperating school.
Rights of Teachers
2. As you read the manual, jot down notes and questions you might want to
ask
Therelater
should
about
be mutual
these Respectfulness
areas:
Magna carta for public
respect
towards each
school teachers
a. Rights
other
b. Duties/Obligations
c. Economic and Social Benefits
d. Reward/Incentive System
Teachers should dictate Independence
Magna carta for public
e. Disciplinary Procedures
the pace of his/her
school teachers
3. Interview
Guide
discussion
a. Interview a teacher/head teacher/principal.
b. The
purpose of the
interview is for you to know about the actual
Duties/Obligations
of Teachers
implementation of the policies and guidelines.
Teachers
should
Confidence
Code of ethics
of interview.
c. Use
thebequestions
you wrote down earlier
for this
enthusiastic
and
has
professional
teachers
d. You may first state a policy or guideline (quoting from the manual),
pride on the profession
then ask how this is implemented. Request the interviewee to cite
examples.
4. Focus on at least 2 policies/guidelines for each of the five areas in number
Should have quality of Knowledgeable
Code of ethics of
2. being the standard
professional teachers
5. Use theteacher
table/matrix that follow to document your observation/ interview
and to put your analysis on the values and legal provisions exemplified by
Economic
Social Benefits
the policies
and and
guidelines.
The salary of the
teachers is increasing
every 3 years

Progression

Magna carta for public

school teachers

Cost of living
allowance

The salary of the

teachers should be
enough for the cost of
living

Progression

Magna carta for public

school teachers

Reward/Incentive System:

Salary increase from

retirement

Teachers are given

compensation upon
retitrement

Progression

Magna carta for public

school teachers

Disciplinary Procedures
The teaching hours

Teachers engage in an
actual classroom
procedures is not
required

Discipline

Magna carta for public

school teachers

Additional
compensation

Any other activities

should be given
additional
compensation

Discipline

Magna carta for public

school teachers

Your Analysis

1. What values are reflected by the policies and guidelines found in the school or
teacher manual. Put your answers in the matrix above. You may choose to put
some additional comments here.

These are values that are essential for the teacher to become professional. These are the
standards.

2. Cite the legal provisions/laws that are exemplified by each of the following
guidelines/policies that you included in your matrix. To help you, focus on the
provisions of the following:
a. Magna Carta for Public School Teachers
b. Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
c. Manual of Regulations for Private School
d. Certain parts of the Labor Code
e. Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994
Write your additional comments here.
The following legal provisions/laws are the pillars of education. These made possible the
conduct of the process. This is very essential for this is where the duties, obligation,
rights, incentives, and other things that are belong to the teaching-learning process.

Your Reflections

1. How do you feel about the policies and guidelines concerning teachers? How
will you respond to them in the future?
Policies and guidelines concerning teachers seem to be fair and just. Therefore at the
future when I am already at the field, Ill make sure that Ill obey those policies and
guidelines. But still I am looking forward to the improvement of the policies and
guidelines for the sake of the teachers.

2. What insights/realizations did you have about the demands of being a

professional teacher? How will you meet these challenging demands in the
future?
I realize that teaching professions is very demanding. It is some kind of a profession
that will test your patience, determination, hard work, and dignity. This is not a
simple profession where you will just be sitting somewhere and wait until something
happens. This required your effort and your time. As a teacher you need to go with all
of these with not so much compensation. This is no luxurious profession.

3. What are your values and strengths that can help you become a true
professional?
I think being patient, determined, passionate, simple, hard working, and a loving
person (especially to the children) can help you become one. Being patient means that
you never lose temper easily. This is no ordinary profession. You need to go through
all the naughty children. You need to be more understanding. Being determined
means that you never give up early, you should not stop doing the right things to
achieve your goals. You are passionate if you love what you are doing and if you love
what you are doing it will lead you the right ways. Being simple means you dont need
luxury because this profession cannot give you one (of course that always depends on
you). Hard working is that you do everything to achieve your goals. Finally, you need
to love the children. Love them like they are your own children.