Chapter Four -The Professionalization of Teaching

-AVELINA TESTON-LLAGAS, Ed.D.

“The policy goals should be to ensure that all children have access to skillful teachers to make the teaching profession more attractive to talented young adults, and to produce humane and intellectually lively learning communities for both students and teachers.”

-Linda Darling- Hammond

Lesson 1 — Basic Laws on the professionalization of Teaching

I learned that there are basic laws that a teacher must to follow. And for the betterment of the teacher’ career he/she should follow the following laws:

·         PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1006-Providing for the professionalization of teachers, regulating their practice in the Philippines and for other purposes

·         REPUBLIC ACT No. 7836 –An Act to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the practice of teaching in the Philippines and prescribing a licensure examination for teachers and for other purposes

·         REPUBLIC ACT No. 9293” An Act amending certain sections of republic act numbered seventy-eight hundred and thirty-six (R.A No. 7836) otherwise known as the “Philippine teachers professionalization act of 1994”

I realize that these basic laws for teachers serve as guide to all public teachers to work responsibly and with knowledge. I also realize, teachers are guided by these laws to become fully professional.